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Invitation to Good
"But when you are invited, go." Jesus (Luke, 14:10)
In all
epochs, good constitutes the divine source, susceptible of supplying us
immortal values.
A reflective
man would have noticed that all the childhood period is a set of appeals
to the sublime fount.
The sacred
invitation is repeated, years over and over. That comes through from
loving human parents, from the schooling mentors, from the religious
feelings, from common friends.
However,
rare intelligences reach the youth with attention set on the elevated
inducement. Nearly everyone listens to the request of inferior nature,
ignoring precious obligations.The appeals,
nevertheless, continue ...Here, it is
a friendly book, revealing the truth in silence; there, it is a generous
colleague who insists in favour of the illuminated realities of
life...
The
rebellion, however, yet throughout adulthood, laughs unconsciously, going,
therefore, in a compulsory march towards natural disenchantment, which
imposes him more balanced thoughts.
In the
Jesus's Gospel, the invitation to good marks eternal clarity. By responding
to it, we can go forth towards our Father, with no
hesitation.If the
Christian bugle has already reached your ears, accept its clarion without
vacillating.Don't you
wait for the goad of necessity. Under the
tempest, it is even more difficult to view the safe shore.The majority
of our brotherhood on Earth march towards God under the ultimate of
sufferings, but don't you wait for the whip of darkness, as you can go on,
calmly, by the clear road of love.
Suicide
The one
who gives in to suicide, as the ultimate solution for the anguishing
problems of life, is completely wrong. Life is endless, it is an eternal
asset granted by God to His children, which purpose is the continuous
progress of human beings until they reach spiritual perfection. A
suicide faces despairing situations in the spiritual plane, even more
intense and painful than the ones experienced here on Earth. No one has
the right of putting an end to his or her own life. The body dies,
disintegrates, the spirit, however, will continue alive, atoning for its
actions in compliance with the eternal and immutable divine
Law.
Moreover, in the subsequent incarnations a guilty spirit will face
bigger and more afflictive problems which can even mark its new physical
body with irreversible sequels, consequence of an unthoughtful
behaviour. How many
people now live painful existences, marked by a suicide committed in
previous lives. The desertion of the organic life doesn't put an end to
bitterness, on the contrary, complicates them considerably, creating dark
stains of sufferings that only successive lives will be able to
eliminate. The
recommended therapies for healing afflictions considered unbearable are,
with no doubt, prayer, patience, comprehension, resignation, faith in God,
allied to the study of the truth and noble work towards the welfare of
others as taught by Jesus.
Your Book
Your existence on Earth is like a book you are
writing. Every
day is a new page, every hour is an evidence of your personality through
the people and the situations you encounter. Don't
disdain the opportunity of creating an epic of love around your
name. Good
works are sentences of light that you address to the whole
humanity. In
each answer you give to others, in each expression you give to your next,
in each manifestation of your point of view and in each demonstration of
your soul, you print, with everlasting ink, the history of your
journey. Upon
the impressions you produce, it's built the book of your
testimonies. Death
is the great collector, who will collect the scattered pages of your
biography, written by yourself on the lives that surround
you. Don't
reject the company of indulgence through the path which the Lord has given
you to tread. Build
an area of love around your own heart, because only love is sufficiently
powerful and wise to guide you, on your individual writings, and
consequently converting these writings into a compendium of assistance and
hope to whoever follows your steps. Live
with Jesus, in the intimacy of your heart. In
your everyday actions, don't distance yourself from Him, and the book of
your life will turn into a poem of happiness and a treasure of
blessings.
God's
Shop
I went in and saw an Angel standing behind the counter. Amazed I
looked at him and said, "What is it that you sell?". "All God's
gifts", he replied.
"Are they
expensive?", I promptly asked. "No, they
are all free of charge". I went on
contemplating the shop, I saw jars and flasks of Faith, packets of Hope,
little boxes of Salvation and Wisdom. I
courageously placed my order, "Please, I very much want the Love of God,
all his Forgiveness and eternal Salvation for my family and I."
The Angel then prepared a little parcel, so small that it fitted on the palm of my
hand. "Is it possible for EVERYTHING to be here?" Smiling the Angel
replied, "My Beloved brother, in God's store we don't sell fruits, only
seeds."
The mere
appearance of pureness is not enough, because above all else it is
necessary to have a pure heart.
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