For some time I have been closing my blog posts with a message sharing the fact that Jesus, God, and The Holy Spirit Love You and each and every person. I remember when growing up and working at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire in the United States of America there were people with signs letting us know that Jesus Loves us and handing out brochures amidst the sea of people streaming up and down the noisy, dusty, hot, bright, boardwalk. I didn’t understand why they were doing that or what the big deal was. I grew up Catholic with all the Sacraments and a solidly faithful family.
Now I only know that Jesus Christ Loves me and find all else a mystery. I see each breath as a Blessing and try to Receive LLJJ, Grow LLJJ, Reflect LLJJ, and Share LLJJ, The Light, Love, and Joy of Jesus. My brother in law Dave passed on recently and it helped bring me to see each breath being a blessing. I am not sure how I got to understand the primacy of knowing God’s Love for me and us. One thing that helps is the tree of knowledge parable with Adam and Eve. I think the point there that God is endeavoring to get across is that He Holds all knowledge and we can never get to fully know or control anything except that Jesus, God, and The Holy Spirit Shower Shimmering, Glistening, Glowing, Enriching, Empowering, Tinkling Love on us constantly. So we need to stop trying to be control freaks. With God we are able to navigate the rest of the mystery of life receiving His Love and following God’s Guidance we enter into relationship with all things working to our good as God Co-Operates with us. Romans 8:28. And then we become one of the many brothers and sisters of Christ. Romans 8:29. All through the Old Testament we see the results of people, societies, and nations that get too full of themselves, forget their need to rely on God, think that they can know anything other than the Love of God for each person, and collapse in chaos. Then they remember their need, call for forgiveness, live in Communion with God, and then flourish again. The trick is to remember the need for God, and to remain relying on God, so as to avoid the chaotic collapse in foolishness of having forgotten God’s Gifting and Co-Operation.
Main thing here I want to do with this I Love You Challenge is to challenge myself and you to start and finish all communications communicating this either literally and explicitly or with nuance, intonation, and body language. And don’t forget to do so with each breath! God’s Goal is for all to know His Love for them and for all to enter relationship with Him following God’s Guidance. And all this is to occur to the ends of the earth. For some time I have been finishing my posts with this and now I am going to try to start my posts with a shorter clip. It is the main message and assignment though. Jesus wants us to reach out and share the Good News to all. As Father Cole says on the way to read the Gospel occasionally, “This is about God’s Love Affair with People! The rest is details.”
Philippians 3:8 …. I believe nothing can happen that will outweigh outweigh the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
Philippians 2:13-16 It is God, who for his own loving purpose, who puts both the will and the action into you. Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing and then you will be innocent and genuine, perfect children of God among a deceitful and underhand brood, and you will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life.
I Love You and so does Jesus, God, and The Holy Spirit along with Mother Mary, Saint Joseph, Saint Joan of Arc, Saint Raphael, Saint Therese Lisieux, Saint Francis, Your Guardian Angel, all the Holy Angels, all the Holy Saints, and many more.