The continuation of The Advent - Christmas - Epiphany Season's celebration 2025-2026.
" The Lord, bless you and keep you ! The Lord let His face shine upon you !
and be gracious to you.
The Lord look upon you kindly, and GIVE YOU PEACE." Book of Numbers.
" God sent The Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out ,"Abba, Father ! " Galations
" Come, O Holy Spirit, and transform the fear-filled, and hardened heart, of this faithless one."(hij)
" The Shepherds, went in haste..to Mary and Joseph...they made known the message that had been told them about This Child...and Mary kept al these things reflecting on them in her heart." Luke's Gospel.
The lights will be soon turned off. The Light in your depths, cannot be turned off. We do not have the switch, the ability to turn off, The Sparkling Diamonds Light. At the same time The Sparkling Light has not been given, to be stored up, to be hidden away, in some darkened closet, like a prized possession. This Gift if so treated, IS LOST. It is, ONLY, in giving it away, do we know what has been bestowed upon us. (Is this, The Pearl, of great price. A Pearl so valuable, all other things must be let go of ?) Paul reminds us, in his letter to the Corinthians, " What has been given is NOT for ourselves, but for the building up of the common good" We have been, CHOSEN, to live in this particular time, planted in this particular place/space, to share The Light, that has been planted, as a living inheritance. This is, eternal. This is a Light, no darkness can overwhelm. OH !!! how our cosmos aches for This Light. We are in a constant vigil, for that which is already an essential, Presence. Let the waiting cease. (What, where, is the action ?
Mary entered a cave that was silent, empty, filled up with nothingness. In that place of hospitality for animals, He, whom the cosmos cannot contain, becomes enfleshed in the silent darkened womb of the virgin. Each year we are offered the gift of being drawn ever deeper into The Eternal Mystery of The Incarnation. The One, Who has eternal existed, Who been the source of existence, for everything that is, is now among us. This gives new meaning to, Emmanuel ? ( Where will this take you ??) Why this, constant repetition into, what seems, at a casual glance, to be such a simple story. Always, be ever on guard of anything that appears, simple. The longer you gaze intently at it, the less you will realize you will know about it. This, supernatural mystery, is no different. We must ever bring to consciousness, there is no division, in anything to do with, The Divine. I Am, is ever, Now.
I can tell you this Advent-Christmas-Epiphany- Season is one that is so new, it boggles the mind. Out of the darkness of the cave, the darkness of the night, the darkness of The Womb, He by whom the cosmos was created, now enters our deepest reality. The One that is beyond everything, has joyfully come, to become enfleshed, in our humanity. He too is now, " a spiritual Being, immersed in the human condition". The Prince of Peace is in, His, tabernacle. From there He is reaching out to His Abba, and our Abba. Our efforts at relationship at times fail, and fail miserably. The eternal relationship between Abba, and Son is always. So when we are helpless, and hopeless, in our nothingness, there is a birthing that takes place. A new and a more vivifying, vibrant ? the cannot be captured with finite words. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. Do I hear an, AMEN
In our nothingness, emptiness, and silence we are blessed, and blessed beyond measure. The All Power-full has taken pity on us, especially, in our lowliness, just like Mary. Just as in Mary, The Christ Child is newly given to all. No exceptions. So what vivifying, life enhancing meaning has those words found in you every moment reality ? What does it mean to encounter in the ,ever new, eternal now, The Christ Child that our world is waiting for ? This Christ Child is to be born, within the womb, of your soul. The whole, world, universe, and cosmos, is waiting for, " Not my, will, but Your will, be, done". The essential, Yes, for The Cosmic Christ Child to be born, ever new. Birthing is pain-full, mercy-full grace is also, ever present. This Mercy-full Power, incarnated in The Child, will be, the source of healing, a soothing agent, a comforting presence, a source of all necessary strength, all leading to transfigurement and transformation.
This is what awaits each beloved in this New Year. Let us all pray for the courage to meet our eternal destiny, in each eternal now. May 2026 be a guided journey, for each of you. A mysterious journey, not guided by the false self, but by, your inspired answer true , to the promptings of, the true self. The true self guided by the same Spirit that empowered Mary. So why are we delaying? With love, great gramps.