Seeds of Light (51-60)

Seeds of Light (51-60)
March 20,2020

51. As long as Christ has not yet returned, Christians are in exile in this world. They are living in a continual and hopeful expectation of His coming. Until He appears in the clouds to lift the faithful to the heavens, Christians are preparing themselves washing away their sins, dumping away the heavy burdens of sins which cannot be brought with them in the heavenly Kingdom. They need to be free, not too much entangled in the net of worldly things, and not burdened with hefty loads so that when they see Christ coming be able to fly towards Him easily like the birds in the sky.

52. Jesus entered into the temple on a donkey and returned under the yoke of the cross. He is wearing a crown of thorns and another of glory until all of his servants are with Him in His glory. To be one of His servants and to follow Him one need to be aware and ready that will sometimes receive stones instead of bread; that will beg for fish and receive instead snake. And still be grateful and happy that is one who has been chosen to be part of His master’s suffering and glory.

53. A soldier cannot run to the gathering at the sound of the trumpet if he is not ready. He needs to always be ready, be in an incessant vigil. Any time can hear that trumpet sounding.

54. In the night of this world, even a sparkle is enough to reveal us a better path. But how great is the light which comes from above? It lasts forever. Only if we are spiritually blind, we cannot see that path. Some people can even see that path with the help of the light coming from inside their souls.

55. There was a time when the light could be seen everywhere. There was a time when the joy of prayers has reached the peak of the beatitudes. The reason for the birds’ song is perhaps the same hope which has lingered in the thrill of the unspoken words. A thrust of the subtle energy unknown in the written books, not carved in the stone, is gushing within us in streams of tears of light and joy. When we dislodge the burdens of the days and lie down to sleep, all the unspoken words like the birds in a burning bush rush in our evening prayers.

56. Not ever our mind has quarried such a pit between us and the heavens like in the modern times. Sometimes when the heavens were so close to the earth each human being could touch the heavens with his own bare hands. Since he has been aware of himself as a human, the man was a religious being in intimate relation with the heavens and earth, with his own being, with other human beings, and with the Being Himself. After the divorce of the modern man with divinity, we cannot find ourselves, each other, and our Creator.

57. Life on earth might be one day a simple story, an epic poem, an odyssey, that man shall remember while walking in the golden gardens of the heavenly kingdom. Every thought, every idea, every sentiment, may just be part of that journey story which shall be told to the children of the children of God in the heavens.

58. In the shadow of the holy mountain an angel told us like in a dream this parable. Once upon the time, at the dawn, early in the morning, when we have felt the sun touching our heads with its caressing rays, the Master has given to each of us a morsel of bread and a jug of water and has sent us in His field to labor. We have been working hard and at noon we had felt hungry and thirsty. We looked for the morsels of bread and the jug of water, but we soon realized that the enemy, the unseen thief, has stolen our food and our water. The work was not finished, and the day was not over. Should we not go back to the Master and ask Him for more food and water to finish the work?

59. It is unfair to let Jesus continue to carry the cross alone throughout the whole history. We should carry our own crosses, some heavier than others. Those, whose crosses are lighter, have thus the duty and the opportunity to give a hand of help, to lift up those whose crosses are too heavy for them to carry alone.

60. There is One God and an unbroken life, unique, everlasting, from glory to glory. The Father is patient with us. He is teaching us in solitude and darkness the luminous rules of his kingdom. We cannot comprehend yet the whole mystery. However, in this incessant dialog between us and God, we are enabled by grace to hear better and better His soft voice because the walls of fear that we have built to protect our solitude and egotism will become more and more transparent. Like the shells, we prefer to bear always the burden of our own selfishness. But it is only enough a ray of divine light to reveal to us the whole glory of God.