By the Almighty's will and plan and love, you and I are alive at this moment. Should we not put aside worry about doing this or doing that and just "BE"!? Let us just "walk in gratitude" all day today. In your lifetime, can you count or recall how many funerals you have attended of deceased who were younger than yourself? Every time I do, I realize I am being sustained by God's direct decision and will for me. He willed that I would get up this morning as He did for you. Each moment is eternal in that this very moment - the present - will never be gone. Our last moment here on earth becomes our first in heaven. But we will never go out like a candle. The flame of life in our soul is eternal by our very intrinsic nature that God created in us. He is always in His eternal PRESENT, and so are we! Our moment right now will always be our "present moment" in our now and in our eternity. We have the security that God has really...because His eternal light will never go out. Since we are created in the image and likeness of God, our light will never go out either. But this light is not objective reality only; is is "subjective reality" in that we will always be conscious ! We will be able to see, think, communicate with others and God forever! The Psalmist says: "With You, O Lord, I shall always be!"
So will not be alone forever. We are right now with God because His Holy Spirit dwells in us. Our love for God and being with God on this earth will only continue on into eternity and for all eternity.
Eternity for our minds is rather freightening in some ways. In all our lives, we see things have beginnings and ends. So it is hard for our minds to wrap around the idea that we will never end. But God who is eternal made us in His image which is to "know and to love" eternally. If God makes a creature, why would He not make that creature to be as perfect a creation as possible? Therefore He made us to be free and to "know and love" as He does and to "be" as He "is" and to live forever with him just as He lives forever. Do you think you could ever put your own child out of existence? How could God put us out of existence when He loved us into Being. Also, His inner life of the Trinity: The Father loves the Son; the Son loves the Father; and the Love between them is the Holy Spirit. That is God's inner life from all eternity to all eternity. We are caught up into this inner life of the Trinity in that Jesus' image is in us. God the Father loves us and recognizes the image of His Son in us. That is why we should not dispell Jesus from our soul be seriously breaking any of the 10 Commandments. The Holy Spirit in us leaves our souls when we commit a serious sin. He leaves because He cannot live in a dead soul just as our souls leave when a body dies. Serious sin destroys our relationship with God. But the Holy Spirit even after leaving still gives the grace for that soul to repent so He can take up residence in that soul again. Our love for God is inspired in us by the Holy Spirit. And this life of God in us goes on now......and forever..............and ever and ever. Let us walk in gratitude.....for God's gracious and creative Love for us....now and forever.
Thank You, Father, for thinking me up, bringing me into being, creating my soul with all its gifts, and for giving me Your Son to redeem me and Your Holy Spirit to sanctify me. One day take me to Your bosom as You did Enoch. Give me the grace of gratitude all during this day and for all my days and for all my forevers...so I can say now and always, "With You, O Lord, I shall always be!" Amen. Love, Pio
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