Back ground: During this month,all sunday readings were focused(1) how to develop ourselves(soil), by controlling anger & judging others,(2) how to preserve our energy for a happy life!.(3) how to develop church activities(seed), in order to extend the good message to the people. This too become challenging due to dynamic nature of the paradigm change of human life from scientific & social development.
Today focus is outcome of practicing Jesus new teachings to your life!. Ie
You are always be happy during this life too!
Christianity leads you to positively think about your life, since you develop relationship with God thru' mary/saints and you know that you are NOT ALONE in your life. You will never feel DEPRESSED!
Sayings which can be useful to practice:
"I PROUDLY SAY I AM, KNOWING CLEARLY MY STRENGTH AND GOD GIVEN TALENTS. I REPEAT MY STRENGTH TO MYSELF OFTEN, KNOWING MY WORDS ARE MY WARDROBE"
Pre amble for today's reading:
B Freedom:
Freedom is what you OUGHT to do!, NOT what ever you want to do. Human freedom is having 3 parts. EXTERNAL freedom- Government regulations(law), INTERNAL freedom- follow 10 commandments(you should NOT entertain any thought in your mind to go against this). PERSONAL freedom is where you operate to reach your HAPPINESS. Christianity demand a very simple action to enjoy your life!.
(1) Follow 10 commandments with NO ENEMIES(internal freedom)
In your personal freedom
(2) Charity
(3) follow God's will
(4) avoid anger
(5) avoid judging others(the above 4& 5 will help you to follow 3))
(6) for your disagreements,fear & sorrow, hand over to Mary/Joseph or saints/ carry out those actions happily without hating but with Love.
B.1 Happiness:
Easy way to enjoy the life is to follow & practice simple method given by Christianity!. You start aware about your life. When you are driving a car, you follow traffic rules, at the same time you aware who are traveling with you & chat with them without loosing attention of the road!. Similarly you are created by God to be HAPPY in your life. You are the driver, road is HAPPINESS, rule to follow is Jesus teaching, who are inside your car, your family, society & the world!
B.2 Fear & sorrow:
fear & sorrow can reach you from 3 categories:
(1) From yourself due to illness or lack of money etc.
(2) From outside: from your family/society- due to disagreements with others
(3) From a natural disaster: like earth quake/tsunami,flood etc
We should be clear how to treat all above from the Catholicism.
For above (1) we should take necessary precautions from the available method(if you are sick, go to a doctor) & hand over that fear to Holy Mary/saints: they will find you a good doctor, good medicine etc to clear your disease!
For above(2) everybody is conditioned in this world from their life experiences. What I think correct, may not be correct.
Disagreements are ever increasing due to increase of "ability to chose". For example if I ask you to buy a piece of soap from a supermarket, you might bring a soap which I don't like! So the present society "ability chose function becoming much more complicated and it allows to increase DISAGREEMENTS even from minor matters!
When there is disagreement, try to curb anger, and forget that incident quickly, if you feel that you are forced to do that, do this thinking Jesus word' if anybody ask you to carry one mile, carry 2 mile'. This you have to do with LOVE not by hating or wishing other person something bad to happen. These incidents you have to hand over to God. God knows all the outcomes. HE will do the necessary remedial action for your happiness. This is very simple method of action, one should train,as a catholic, to realize HAPPINESS.
Unless you train to carry out God's will it will be difficult to carry out in this way neither you will understand this is practically possible. This is the JOY OF A CHRISTIAN, always he is being looked after by God, Virgin Mary,St Joseph & Saints!.(Very difficult for non christian to understand).
(3)When you are a victim of a natural disaster, you cannot reconcile why it has happened to you. Under this scenario, you should hand over all your sorrows/fears to thru' saints(select your favorite saints) thru St Joseph, thru' Holy Mary to God!
You allow God to act on you, for solutions, while you take necessary steps worldly, to recover. God like a divine doctor, operate to recover such spiritually in your body!.during this 'SPIRITUAL DARKNESS' period(like floating in swimming) God will show path for HAPPINESS!
B.3 why we should follow God's will/ what do you mean by POWERFUL PERSON ?
In normal terms POWERFUL means a person who is able to control and influence events of other people's action. If a powerful person having a head ache, can he remove by himself that pain or if he has having a bad knee, can he replace by himself? No.
So God is ultimate power source. God can overcome space,energy & time! He is eternal!.
B.4, analogy of our normal life!
(from speech of bisop FULTON .J. SHEEN- u tube)
Following story, which happened in 1950's in the city of New york.
Three friends booked 3 rooms in a hotel, and they were given 3 rooms in the 45 th floor.
They went outside for a party and came in mid night.
The receptionist in the hotel told' sorry sirs, our lift is not working, I can arrange 3 beds in the ground floor'
The 3 friends who has enjoyed good wine, boasted, o..h don't worry, we can climb up to our rooms
The 3 friends agreed, first 15 floors, one will sing songs, next 15 floors another will tell happy stories, the other will tell sad stories, during the last 15 floors.
As agreed all 3 friends climb upto 30 floors. The other 2 requested the last to tell the sad stories. After a hesitation the last man is telling " oh! WE FORGOT THE ROOM KEYS"
In this story we are reminded the main segments of our life
Young & youth life
Middle life
Old age life
If we forget the keys we have to climb down, which we start fearing as to how to go back and climb again.
So what is the meaning of the key?
WE SHOULD ENJOY OUR TIME HAPPILY!
Otherwise we will always stay in past remembering history only!
C. Summary of today's reading:
Book of kings remind us how king Solomon sunday/augustbecame wise!.
Paul guarantees that those who follow Jesus, God shares His glory with Him.
Gospel; Mt: 13:44-54. Talks about the outcome Christianity
THE KINDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE TREASURE HIDDEN IN A FIELD WHICH SOMEONE HAS FOUNDM HE HIDES IT AGAIN & GOES OFF HAPPY, SELLS EVERY THING HE OWNS AND BUYS THE FIELD"
To realize above, JESUS has showed us a practical example:
Jesus Example:
In His final summary to God, Jesus did not relate even 1 miracle (Jn17) that He performed.(Raising dead, turning water to wine,multiplying loves+fish,reducing no of sick leave thru' my territory) He did not say" I've left construction of the temple in the capable hands & it should be finished by May" nor did He say"I've double no of your recruits here & you will note offerings are up in 3 fold" instead He listed His people as His great accomplishments"As a proof of my good work here, I present to you, PETER, JAMES...MARY, MARY MAGDALENE & MARTHA etc completed in LOVE-JESUS.
Only tangible thing Jesus left for us was tattered garment with many people like peter....martha etc.
To realize into your life:
Everybody in this world eager to lead a HAPPY life. Your life is like a river. Flow of water is your happiness(how you develop your mind+ how you develop ability to chose). Flow of water has to go to sea, without any leakage(sea is similar to heaven). 2 banks of the river are the discipline you maintained (from breathing) your physical body & how to balance worldly requirements(from gravitational force) of Money, Power & Sex!. Christianity provide easy solution to realize HAPPINESS, to convert your born talents into energy!. Simple method is to follow the God's will, since God's is your creator! & He has created you to lead a happy life!.
Conclusion:
C.1 GOD IS EVERY WHERE!
God is everywhere & we need to look for Him. Look, but really look, as it for the first time at the face of a friend, a tree or a bird etc, the behavior and the mannerism of the people around you!. Really see them and hopefully you will see them as they are, not as you had been seeing with your mind clouded with Prejudices & Judgments!. The remembrance of God in all our daily activities elevates us in our life!
Whatever we do, we do for God and raise our whole being to Him, at every moment of our life(cf. 1Cor 10.31)cv
C.2 POPE FRANCIS
According to Pope Francis(ref-LIGHT OF FAITH part sec13)" THOSE WHO PUT NOT TO PUT THEIR TRUST IN GOD MUST HEAR THE DIN OF COUNTLESS IDOLS CRYING OUT:'PUT YOUR TRUST IN ME'"
C.3 AREAS THAT CHRISTIANITY HELP YOU TO DEVELOP!
Jesus has shown us to develop 3 categories of strengths:
Strength of self mastery
Strength of action
Strength of relationship
Your success in life required combination of all 3 above. Ex: A physician who has self mastery and action skills, but lack of relationship skills, will be limited in his carrier! Or a politician who has relationship and action skills, but lack in the area of self mastery will be not successful! To be a wise catholic, to enjoy the anticipated out put of happiness, he should be aware in all these 3 areas to become WISE!. Christianity provide very simple learning to be a wise man!
GBU
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