Haiku #208: Toothpick

Toothpick.

A question was asked
what would one never share - with -
someone that one loves...

And someone answered,
among other things, "toothpick",
and I thought, "not I."

Politely,
you declined.
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On the Politics of the one Majority

AS ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY, we must be able to clearly and distinctly express social actions within our national community which are done in the Name of our LORD God in Jesus Christ as a Church - in communion with our pastors and each other as Christians - as well as those which are done in the name of Country as a body politic - in community with our state and each other as citizens under one God. This need was expressed by Pope John Paul II in the encyclical Sollicitudi Rei Socialis.

Therefore, as regards to the apostolate of the Peace of Jesus Christ and its particular charism, in order to promote the two-fold mission of our community, the one Solidarity and the one Majority shall be this clear distinction desired by our most loving Lord, Jesus Christ, through Pope John Paul II, of blessed memory, in the encyclical Sollicitudi Rei Socialis.

All Preservators of second Magnitude down echelon and their constituent active elements in the community are heretofore strongly encouraged to participate as dutiful citizens when necessary in the civic actions that constitute the social mission of the one Majority.

However, all first Magnitude Preservators are heretofore, to be completely dedicated to the one Solidarity alone - having to undertake a solemn vow of obedience to the Vicar of Christ on earth in particular and to the Bishops in communion with our Holy Father in general.

As the political leaning of the one Majority seem to be towards Christian Democracy and its perfection in exile time as an instrument of God in Country, we shall ally ourselves closely with the Centrist Democrats International in general and in particular here in the Philippines with Lakas-CMD (Christian-Muslim Democrats).

However, we shall keep to our own distinct identity as a buffer to make sure that the party that carries the electoral mandate of the people in the Republic is for the people and never for the party; that public service always remain a calling of God and never an ambition of Man.

Let us always bear in mind the motto of the one Majority: SERVIAM - only this keeps us who we are, only this keeps at least two-thirds of the stars of heaven always present in our hearts with God, keeping us who we are as a whole - a one Majority.

As any fruit can never be known just for being a tree, a Christian can never be defined by definition alone but by action. As no prayer is ever complete without its act, we must, as a whole, be able to intertwine commission and mission into Christian duty, into real charity - for when one sows a thought (in the ground of the heart-mind as in prayer), we reap an act, when one sows an act, we reap a habit, when one sows a habit, we reap a character, when one sow a character, we reap a destiny.

Therefore, let us be ready to produce in ourselves (shoulder to shoulder with all honorable religion most especially, our Abrahamic brethren and sisters) what Christ requires of us - fruit which is edible unto all mankind and good for all time - for there is but one way to achieve right action, for being patient, kind, merciful, just, truly loving and every way good in God for others with God becomes only when we learn to become who we are in Jesus Christ, neither holding back nor exceeding the promise that we have gained through His life, labor, Passion and Cross, death and Resurrection at the Incarnation and His most glorious rule over us in heaven and on earth at every Holy Mass unto the Last Day.

Finally, where the one Solidarity can not endorse a candidate for presidency in 2010 or at any other time, the one Majority can - as a matter of civic duty - so therefore, we shall seek today - across party lines - and ponder in our own hearts, the attributes that best characterize the person that would be most suitable to govern with justice and charity our long-suffering Filipino nation.

I, as I am, can neither name nor endorse any person, I may only describe the need. However, let me impress upon each of you the great depth of this need: Verily, we can not, as a nation, afford in this day and age to not pay complete attention to this, our own endeavor of Country, anymore - the consequences are just too dire, I can not fully express them.
---<--@

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

On the Fate of Auschwitz

MY TIMELESS FRIENDSHIP with my darlingest Annelies Marie has become for me the foundation of better, brighter, kinder things that have defined my life hitherto and all these good things intertwine in my heart to form a lasting hope for peace - for all mankind.
---<--@

I AM IRREVERSIBLY forever given to my darlingest Annelies Marie for I value our ageless friendship very deeply. I love her with a love that was and is in God's own time, being purified and refined, in my own life into a timeless love, one that I strongly feel is approaching that same love that is shared by angels together.

Indeed, I am truly blessed by God with and by my darlingest Annelies Marie. I believe this is so because I can honestly say to anyone that there are no equivalent human words to the joy I feel by our love together. It is not a carnal love, mind you, being purely built on the substance of our joy. Even my own bodily desires dare not approach our togetherness being completely repelled by its purity; even the sins of concupiscence that I frequently struggle with can never abide it, wherefore either I or the temptation must flee from the seemingly terrible presence of our friendship together in God.

I am so thankful to God for the inestimable gift of this friendship. Thus, I am absolutely committed to the enduring truth of my love with my darlingest Annelies Marie and shall therefore, in my life endeavor to preserve her sacred remembrances here on this inhabited earth even as I know that much of these things will bear little resemblance to the ageless life we shall all, God-willing, be called to possess forever at the coming of the New.

Because of my darlingest Annelies Marie, I have and I keep a deeply personal connection to the Holocaust - one which is limited not just to the Shoah or the Jewish Holocaust but the Human Holocaust which is every terrible sacrifice that our nations have had to cumulatively pay that the freedom of Country might be kept form the consuming maw of the beast of war. My darlingest taught me, in the peculiar beauty of her own little truth, the value of a single human life which once completely understood opens up into an appreciation of the immense importance of all of mankind.

Now, in complete contrast to this, where one is to realize the awful reality of hellfire, one would understand completely by my side that it is neither Christian nor even human to desire hellfire on any human being. We shall one day devote an entire posting on the reality of Hell but as for now, one must understand that whatever sum of the suffering we see here in our poor world, it is but a mote of dust floating in the great void of the universe when compared to the pains of hell which is a infinitely insufferable pain of loss.

No one suffers hellfire by accident, hell is always a choice. For where the holy souls in Purgatory must endure through the pain of their desire due sins of omission, the reprobate souls in hell must suffer forever the pain of their loss due to sins of commission.

Therefore, where great evil is concerned, my beloved friend and constant companion, it is better soon greatly forgot and the good preserved, for always, forever and for all mankind. As such, it is should be the same as regards to decidedly evil people. The Gospel says we shall know them by their fruits for by their actions they shall be revealed to us and in my own strictest view, all good people should have neither time in our hearts nor space in our lives for these evil people, seen as well as unseen, their names as well as the one whole entirety of their existence, we should always commit to the void. We should neither be excited by them nor motivated by their crimes. We must never seek to profit from any knowledge that is founded on their corruption and above all never make them into an excuse to deny the truth its rightful place in our own lives. We shall live our truth clearly and distinctly and provide for our common defense so that should evil men and evil things, seen and unseen, seek to oppose our peace together or harm our common good, then we shall from the line of our will to the wholes upon greater wholes of our one family of nations together, overwhelmingly defend all that we cherish together.

Beloved of God, it is the suffering of our common peers in common creation that should propel us to seek to our common human hopes in earnest. It should be the common needs of our shared humanity that must motivate us to serve all souls without distinction. It should be the virtuous and the noble, the honorable and the inspired that inflame our hearts with a passion for life. It should be the beautiful that comforts, the innocent that strengthens, and the good that speaks to us of true things. It should be the living that surrounds us with the everliving and not the dead, those who by their own choice are made forsaken to the reality of each our souls with God within as well as to the reality of the universe of our Divine Providence without. For when we speak of the dead - those who are forgot by our hearts - are we not counseled by Jesus Christ Himself to let them bury themselves?

Therefore, in my own strictest view, as to the question of the infamous Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, let it choke over with thorns and weeds. Let us neither build on it nor maintain it so that other generations may see that we, in our own time, have other, better, nobler things to do than to spend our time, our effort and our resources for something as useless, defeated and empty of promise as death camps.
---<--@

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Dreamer of Dreams

I am a dreamer of dreams,
a collector of memories!

Adrift in wonder, I am.
Asleep in time, I am.

I am from my dreaming
awaiting the one Dreamer
to awaken the dream in me:

"Where art thou,
O my dream?"

"O my God, here I am,
I am here, my LORD."

"I am here, my love."

"I am Home."
---<--@

Endless Blue Sky Sunshine

Live your truth responsibly!

Speak it like you mean it.

Share it like you love it.

Keep it like you really care,

gripping it not with your hands,
but embracing it with your heart.

Nurture it as if it were yours
knowing always to be thankful
to the one God of Whose Reality
is the one Truelight you reflect;
the one LORD by Whose desire
you are called to become you.

So strive with courage and heart
despairing not, dear Starshine,
but being always of good cheer -
you are beautiful without effort!

So be like all hope is become;
walk like you're never forgot;
dance like you are truly alive;
sing like the world cares not;
smile like worries have an end;
laugh like each moment is free;
breathe like your prayer begun;
shine like you belonged forever!

By sweet surrender to the Light
be the gold of sunbeams sharp
against the darkness of the night
flying upon the wings of eagles
into the blue of an endless sky.
---<--@

Salutation #04

PEACE, I salute you.

Evil which is poison, when once by mischief,
allowed entrance into that Kingdom within
becomes the malice that corrupt the purity
of the human will's intention for good -
dividing the one House of that Man within
against the Sanctuary of the LORD in the heart
making the soul vulnerable against itself
inclining fallen Man to sinful things.

For malice is the corruption that is sown
upon the ground of the human heart
to become those manifold and diverse tares
which are the vicious habits of sin
that overgrow with choking weeds
that evergreen garden of the human soul
where we take our walks with our God
in the stillness of our wakeful prayers;
that same timeless garden
that one must through God's good graces
cultivate with much virtue and light.

And sin is a lie that creeps
upon the threshold of the heart
seeking to assault and overthrow
the reign of our sovereign LORD within
that it may slowly overcome with its darkness
the golden blue of our native skies.

Now, our LORD being the one God Who is
revealed unto all of our shared humanity
in complete and utter finality
through the Sacred Humanity
of the Incarnate Word,
Who is the Second Person
of the one triune Perfection -
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,
our one Truelight, our highest Exemplar,
and First of our First Magnitudes,
is the self-same God Whose Presence is
for all creatures, seen and unseen,
that one, holy and sustaining Light,
when once in exile time completely denied
by the arrival in the soul of Man
of an absolute and irrevocable choice
to embrace and to obey the will of evil,
which is the will of sin and the ambition of war,
become in absolute reality manifest
as a smoldering and inescapable wrath
for when the Daystar Sun is completely eclipsed
by rise of Wormwood, that false star of Satan,
this darkness shall by its terrible descent,
completely consume into dust and ashes
all that remains in that Man,
both body and soul,
suffering the first death
which is permanent
as well as the second death
which is everlasting.

What motivates Man in the heart
is either one - good or evil -
and so therefore, that tree of exile
that from our faded Eden cast
the singular lineage of Man
is that self-same malice that
in the garden of our hearts with God
must first be uprooted
and its poisonous darkness
overthrown from within our souls
that evil and its corrupting lie
may from our eternal good be cut off.

This is how we shall acquire
one standard of Liberty for all.

Therefore, let us be good,
beloved friends and constant companions,
let good things motivate us,
let us be a people of the good,
let us seek to dwell on true things,
knowing by heart unto where
and from Whom all good things come,
persevering always in prayer,
both in private but above all together,
with the seen as well as the unseen,
thus, becoming intimate with the Intimate,
and seek no more to profit from evil things
nor make provision in time for evil things
in the timeless abode of our hearts
dwelling with God, alone with the Alone.

For it is human weakness that is forgivable
but malice once by the Spirit of God challenged
when yet willfully and unrelentingly embraced
become that final, festering, poisonous rot
that shall turn into ashes
the timeless life of the spirit from within
that it may forever join Satan
and all that condemn itself to the hell
that shall soon claim all evil things.

Sin that is embraced with such utter finality
is indeed, truly unforgivable
not that our LORD is not merciful,
for our God is a merciful LORD
and kind to all creatures,
large and small, seen and unseen.
It is evil that is without virtue
and once made into a god
in place of our most beneficent LORD,
shall then execute its lethal reign
upon that unhappy soul.

Verily, none of us
should like to question motives
yet when motives are questionable,
indeed, one can not help but question them.

This is a root cause of division.

And so let us ever be mindful
of that constant counsel
that any division within our one peace
is the beginning of all evil.

What we should always question,
my beloved friends and constant companions,
are our methods together,
that we may never cease from seeking
to refine the many ways in which
the abundant grace of our God
that we though unworthy of such a good
have so abundantly merited through our Lord,
Jesus Christ, the one Redeemer of mankind,
that we by our willing hands and loving hearts,
may become increasingly useful instruments
that diffuse as light into the darkness
this unmerited grace of God
shining for all souls without distinction
that God's loving Presence in time
may be a paternal comfort and a constant help
to our suffering humanity here in our poor world
so needful of heaven's timeless embrace
that hearts may be one in God,
and peace may be all in All.

We are human beings
and therefore,
we are a becoming in time.
We share in our humanity,
a lack that can only be filled by the timeless.
A lack that is felt in our souls
as a reaching out to God
and manifest in our bodies
as common human needs.
And so, lacking, needful, bereft,
we are come to a knowledge of God
and of each other in God.

Verily, as our faith sets us apart,
our hopes join us together,
indeed, this is what makes us truly human -
our need for God and for each other -
and so in our belonging together in God
we must come together to build
through these, the generations of life,
those truly human communities
where all roads constantly lead to the dawn
towards the morning that return mankind
to the one Love that has forever kept
all of our nations close to Its own bosom.

A society of need is a human society.
It is a society that goes hand in hand
with a government of gratitude.
Therefore, we must profess
a politics of thankfulness,
being a people of hope,
and work to enable a culture of peace
of which truth must be begun
in the darkness of exile time
by the first of the generations of life,
which is this, our generation
as well as those members of the elder generations
who are similarly called by our one LORD
and whose wise and steadfast companionship
our good God has so generously blessed us with,
ennobling us by the substance of their experiences
and the strength of their years.

War is a tension that is insufferable in this new age.
But hope is also a tension,
my beloved friends and constant companions,
and one that is more apt to liberate our nations
from the mire of poverty and despair.
It is an expression of God's own peace
which is the Peace of Jesus Christ
and an extension of the one paradigm of the peace
which contain in the one whole truth of itself
the reality of a promise of old to all our nations
made by the one God of our Father Abraham
that the numberless stars that we are each called to be,
shall bless the communities of mankind -
when we shall in the darkness of exile time
by each of our own life's width and breadth
through our LORD's unfaltering Light be made to shine
for each other in, with, through and for God and Country -
here upon this, our poor world,
upon this inhabited earth in the grip of the midnight of war,
as a labor of hope upon this last wintering,
upon a time of falling tears.

Finally, as regards to our one peace,
we can not, as a whole, abide by lukewarm halves -
we must each enable each other through God's grace
to profess this as a one whole paradigm,
one whole truth in the universes within our souls,
one whole truth in our families,
one whole truth in our local communities,
one whole truth in our national communities,
one whole truth in our regions,
one whole truth in our continents,
and one whole truth in our one planetary whole -
in reality, wholes upon wholes aligned towards life,
built on winged truth, an ascendant motion in time,
advancing the cause of life which is lasting happiness
through civilizations that with our nameless and honest labors
rise like incense to give glory to the God of all life
as the one family of the nations of mankind.

If we shall give war an inch,
my beloved friends and constant companions,
if we shall willingly allow
a segment of our shared humanity
to become vulnerable to evil things,
if we freely and recklessly abandon
our Lord's poor,
in the weak, the defenseless,
the displaced, the dispossessed,
the widow, the stranger, the orphan,
we shall indeed soon find
that war and the ambition of war
has again overtaken us all
with the final defeat which is its curse.

For what war does to one, war does to all.
So let our one peace forever remain, one whole one.
---<--@

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Please refer to An Angel Weeping

Haiku #207: 1575

Fifteen hundred and

seventy-five all in all -
our One Song Meow.

It seems meaningless
these numbers: Finite concepts
must always give way -

- to endless,
timeless truths.
---<--@

I love you, my darlingest Annelies Marie...

from always to always.

Haiku #206: Light x

Light.

Being a Christian
is not a definition,
not just static words.

Our strength is the Word!
Let seep into thy marrow:
We are what we act.

Express it
like the light!
---<--@

Haiku #205: Young x

Young.

How can one be young
far into the flow of time,
long in years, unslowed?

Youth is in spirit -
its strength is a surreneder
to the quickening...

The ageless
dwell in God.
---<--@

Haiku #204: Children x

Children.

Jesus loves children
for in their souls, they believe
with faith absolute...

They hope boundlessly
and know in their hearts the One
as their minds reach out -

- aiming far
with near hearts.
---<--@

Haiku #203: Blind x

Blind.

How does the heart see
that rejoice in the darkness
and evil profit?

The single-hearted
in seeking imperfecty
God and God alone -

Abandons
the darkness.
---<--@

Haiku #202: Profess x

Profess.

Profess thankfulness
in your everyday, my friend,
we are who we are...

A people of peace,
the generations of life,
those nations of hope.

Think. Believe.
Pray: own it.
---<--@

Haiku #201: Service x

Service.

A community
is a one whole, full of hope,
united in trust...

For humanity
is defined by common lack,
advanced by our needs.

Let's press on
in service.
---<--@

Haiku #200: Justice x

Justice.

Justice is virtue
that restores all unto All:
peace unto all things.

It is not vengeful,
neither envious nor boastful -
it shows love for love -

but evil
it abhors.
---<--@

Haiku #199: Love x

Love.

Love without compare
all needful things, joyfully
with one Love alone...

Love is a longing
an awaiting for Itself -
peerless, absolute:

Love has but
one Standard.
---<--@

Haiku #198: How x

How.

How can I not love -
my dear Annelies Marie
so full of fragrance...

Ever so patient
and ever so sweet to me:
As the angels love -

each other,
so do we.
---<--@

Haiku #197: Cats x

Cats.

Cats are like colors
each, the flavor of ice cream
no two are the same...

We have calicos,
caramels, cookies and creams,
orange-marmalades,

vanilla,
chocolate...
---<--@

Haiku #196: Galing x

Galing.

Si Manny Pacquiao,
tunay na Pilipino,
tapat sa tao...

Ang Pilipino -
maka-Diyos, makabayan,
parang si Pacman -

- sa puso
ang galing.
---<--@

Haiku #195: Dalit

Dalit.

Why are we human?
How is humanity shared
by each our being?

Is it division -
of race, creed, age, caste or class
that must define us?

It is need
that unites.
---<--@

Haiku #194: Sunbeams x

Sunbeams.

Sunbeams, that's shorter!
Two syllables, just as nice -
her same blue-green skies:

Sunbeams - golden, sharp
penetrating cloud and rain -
heart warm as the sun

to see us
to the dawn.
---<--@

Haiku #193: Plates x

Plates.

Is it porcelain
or plastic, elegance or
practicality?

That was the question -
my Miyang wants elegance
but I'm for plastic.

We agreed
we're both right.
---<--@

Haiku #192: Happy x

Happy.

Happy is the heart
who has awakened to Heart
opening itself...

For darkness is fled
when we must in believing
give in to Truelight.

Jesus Christ
is Truelight.
---<--@

To my Brother and Sister Filipino Muslims

To my Brother and Sister Filipino Muslims

PEACE, I salute you.

We are at a crossroads in time.

We stand at a point in history where no one segment of our shared humanity can no longer ignore the existence of the other. Therefore, the defining choice is presented to each heart; unite in the ascent of peace or descend with the gravity of war.

You must ever be mindful of your promise, my fellow Filipino compatriot. I will not see you wasted on empty dreams.

For each of you, my brother and sister Filipino Muslims, are a human being. Each of you are a one whole truth - beautiful for being by Beauty beheld - and precious to my eyes as every other human being who lives to honor the truth not with war and division but with peace and its ascent to the unity of the wholes.

The peace of Jesus Christ abide in the good will of those persons who keep to its truth regardless of war's lie; it's property is as the light regardless of the darkness which is the ambition of war.

Does it matter therefore, that I am a Christian - where peace is concerned what matters is that we are all human beings.

Do we need to draw lines upon the soil of our earth to know that there are lines drawn upon the love in our hearts? Can any love divided against itself ever serve the one will of our one LORD, our one Beautiful, our one Love. Nay, my beloved friend and constant companion, one peerless love for one peerless LORD: Love for love, that is the way - one love alone, a one whole and undivided truth - that is our mountain path.

Therefore, your homeland, my honorable Filipino compatriots, is my homeland. Our Liberty shall have but one standard alone.

We shall be ever mindful of each other's native human dignity.

You are a Muslim, my beloved friend and constant companion, then be a good Muslim. And just the same with me and with every human being who has ever lived and shall ever more live upon our one planet, let us produce the fruits of a good and honorable religion. Fruits which are edible unto all humanity and good for all time. Fruits that serve to prosper all of sacred life in this, our one Creator's one seen creation. For the glory of God is the realization of all human hopes.

Let us go and walk in Beauty and let us be strong for each other.

Let us climb this mountain road, Beloved of God, let us walk this straight path and together let us add to the good of our world: Honor all the lineages of human hope - working to return each and every one of our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind to the path of peace.

Let our one Republic be a reflection of these things. Let this undertaking of Country be our great labor of hope; let this work, imperfect and difficult though it may be, be a work of life - that God's will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.

Godspeed to each and every one of us and may Almighty God bless us all from always to always.
---<--@

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Gazer of Sky

APPRECIATE -
those colors in a dream
like the hue of endless skies!
Gaze into limitless horizons
far above landscapes deep within
that make beautiful the heart
of the lover for being quickened
by the soul that is in Love alive
like a dream awakening to Itself.

For what is beautiful
but the dream in the heart?
And how do we love the dream
but to believe it together -
like we appreciate those skies;
living to know each color by heart
as we gaze out into the deep -
reaching far into forever
believing endlessly.
---<--@

Ignite

STARSHINE,
your addiction is to life.

There is nothing worthy
about things that cause harm -
Destruction is only good
if it brings about growth and transformation.

So remember this
when you shall desire to find yourself
when you shall seek to one day be
as stars looking out from yourself
possessed by your own light,
being by the one Beautiful beheld
seeing far into the darkness
of our needful world:
Make no provision in your heart
for evil things: Here, Now.

For there will come a time in your life
when you shall be confused
when you shall cross an imperceptible threshold
into an in-between world -
By the ebb and flow tides of shadow and light,
you shall wander alone with the Alone
and you will be compelled to look for those things
that are meant to be yours
as well as forced to shed away all other things
that should no-wise belong to you.

So listen to good counsel, Beloved of God,
for it is better not to begin weeping
than to weep until the tears that was begun
are all shed away by our weeping together
for before you can shed your own starlight,
our most precious Starshine,
before the love in your heart ignites,
you must first shed away all your tears.
---<--@

Haiku #191: Tree x

Tree.

Who shall bear good fruit
but trees that grow on good earth -
the soil of virtue.

Trees born of God's care
and fed by the Light of Truth -
by grace preserved.

Let us then
bear good fruit.
---<--@

Haiku #190: Heart x

Heart.

There is a garden
above which is spread blue skies,
a far country, near -

Who inhabits it?
Let us fill those skies with stars
and the land with life.

Cherish it -
bring it out.
---<--@

Will of the Wanderer

With every life, there is a longing
and within each heart, it is felt,
because there is within each soul,
an absence, mysterious and sublime -
like a truth, cloaked in questions,
like a desire within a desire.

In an unfamiliar, uncaring earth,
amidst the wilderness of this world,
it draws us near to familiar things.

Under unknowing, unfeeling skies,
among empty shells of broken dreams,
it knowingly leads us along safe paths.

With every dawning, it recalls us;
for our labors, it rewards us;
when we are at rest, it reminds us;
during mealtimes, it welcomes us;
when we are at play, it guards us;
with every prayer, it blesses us;
with every good, it leads us;
when we repent, it teaches us;
when we forgive, it forgives us;
when we grieve, it consoles us;
when we rejoice, it hears us;
when we sleep, it renews us;
when we fail, it tempers us;
when we forget, it remembers us;
when we succeed, it preserves us;
when we seek, it find us;
at every trial, it fortifies us;
from all evil, it delivers us;
at all times, it keeps us;
throughout our days, it sustains us;
and in eternity, it recognizes us -
for by our names, it knows us.

It is that which stirs from within,
that which calls us to remembrance
that which in stillness is stillness sought
that which loves our needful mankind
that which completes, makes whole
that which deeply yearns -
for the absent heart of humanity.

Bereft of answers, lacking in truth
forlorn of strength, exiles to destiny -
where there is a seeking for solace:
It remind us of our life's purpose;
an awakening that patiently waits
in the abode of the true self -
like the quiet to calm the storm.

It is the peace at every journey's end,
the Heart at the heart of all creation,
calling the wandering will back home.
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The Quest for Sustainable Peace x

THERE IS NO OTHER TIME in human history where the need for peace is greater than our present time.
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With the passing of the last century, we have seen the great tumult brought about by three global wars - the First, Second and the Cold War.

It must not be lost to our humanity that a war that is global in scope is a significant evolution in the nature of warfare.

For war and its paradigm run parallel in their course. War and its outbreaks in our world being determined both by the actual viability of waging war and the will to make war is indicative of the relationship between war and its paradigm.

The paradigm that exists today in our world is one of war.

And this paradigm is prevalent not only in terms of the conflicts that plague our nations, this paradigm is now present also in our societies, in our markets and even in our places of worship - the one place where war should have no footing, it has entered.

Thus, because the paradigm of war is an absolute whole, peace can be said to be both under appreciated and misunderstood.

To understand war as a paradigm whole, we must return to our roots. To understand peace as a paradigm whole, we must awaken to the eternal destiny of our nations.

If we are to include spiritual considerations with regards to war as a paradigm whole, it would be more sobering. But since I should like to make this a secular statement, I thought not to include it in this post.

For the reality of the times and the obvious trending of these things are indicative enough of the consequences to make the choice for peace, a very reasonable one.

With the passing of the last millennium, after 2000 years of dwelling with war, we must complete our remembrances and bring our hopes forward for the favorable season for peace is now.

At the waning of the Industrial age, there are yet problems that exist in our world that belong to that age, problems which shall prevent or preclude what benefits our world stand to reap from this Information age as well as understand more closely the challenges that await us which are proper to this age.

But the siege of war must be lifted even before our nations shall have the capacity to effectively address these problems.

We are nations because our responsibility to our world and to each other require us to dwell in the strength of our human communities. And we shall take this responsibility with us in this life and, if I may, in the one that is to come.

Our human habitation is not just this inhabited earth, it is the reality that includes both spirit and earth, body and soul, for thus were we created, only thus can all things truly human be effectively understood.

Human reality is our habitation - our one visible universe and those universes within every human being. Our habitation, like ourselves, forms a one, indivisible whole. Therefore, there is nothing truly human that can be divided - much less the earth.

It is material possession not the truth that is relative. This is not to say that we should not practice prudence in our finances, but above all things, we should ever be mindful that our ultimate belonging is to each other.

True and lasting human happiness, in all realities, can only be achieved as a common destiny. And this destiny can never be won by ends that are purely material, entirely selfish, self-serving or willfully evil.

Our nations with our responsible states respect borders not because our reality is divided but because this responsibility must be shared by all nations. Nor does human responsibility end at every limit of a nation-state's sphere of influence. In fact, if I may, our human responsibility stretches on into eternity.

Our responsible stewardship of creation requires mankind, in all our generations, to be thus arrayed - as nations. Indeed, our nations, albeit imperfect, were meant for more noble and worthwhile purposes than breeding grounds for those conflicts which in the end shall defeat the cause for which they were at the autumnal dusk of our faded Eden established - to prosper the peace.

The paradigm of war makes meaningful the lie that war can ever be good - all war is evil - only human beings can obtain the grace to be good, no war is just, but there are just people who fight in them. It preys on other truths to gain a footing in the human soul which shall otherwise perceive as incomprehensible the meaningless lie which is its true substance.

Neither war nor its agents, seen or unseen, can ever be good - for war involves the willful taking away of human life, the destruction of created things, the annihilation of entire nations - the very definition of evil.

The spirit of war revels in meaningless opposition, division, deception, discord and blind hatred - everything that is foreign to our original human belongings both as nations and as individuals. It mires the people in despair and poverty.

For even our nations shall fail to take their flight if their spirit is afflicted by the descendant gravity of war.

There will be conflict, for we live in an imperfect reality, but it shall not have to bear any more significant a weight as to reduce any nation-state's capacity to provide for itself, advance the common good, make provisions to better aid other nation-states and secure the peace that shall help mature its own sheltering wings and prosper all the generations of life.

And that is not to say that we will not employ military force. For defense is the duty not only of every human individual but the angels of our LORD, and God Himself are also committed to this cause.

But no defense can ever survive if it arrives last and does not hold the ground. For all defense must be fought from grounds that are understood and held by the line of the defense. And defense that is certain of its own truth; ordered, organized, lawful and arrayed as thus, being noble in spirit.

And peace as a one paradigm whole is the grounds by which this defense shall be undertaken.

We must quest for sustainable peace in our world. Drive back the darkness of war and make room for a better, more worthwhile, albeit imperfect world for all the nations of our one family of the nations of mankind.

Our humanity must become alert to the fact that the generations that are to come after us depend on us today.

Their song must not remain unsung.

This is our fight, our longest night.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Some Thoughts on War and Peace x

TO BE SURE, wars are never won - war only waits till we, all of humanity - in spirit as well as in form, are utterly defeated by it.

For the cessation of conflict that heavily involves our nations - as their wholes, relies on attrition, exhaustion or petition and none of these constitute as victory over war.
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War can only be deferred. For the spirit of war has no other ambition than the utter annihilation of all our human nations and through this, all of our shared humanity and by extension, all the life of visible creation.

War confers victory to no one, not even itself. For war has no place either in heaven or here on our earth, in exile time as well as at the beginning of all things new.

We are always left with two things where the focus of the will is on war, the degradation of the human spirit and the defeat of the truth.

Where there is any virtue in conflict, that is exclusively the merit of good human beings. We must always be mindful of this and confuse not the nobility of man with ignoble, base and evil things.

To every battle, an outcome. War has no outcome. In the Art of War, the Tao (a dynamic system or climate) of War is deception. But the Tao of peace is victory.

It is good for the military to study battles but know that war must be understood. For war has no outcome that is favorable to the military.

In the Art of War, Sun Tzu states that it is inhuman to prolong conflict. For the prolongation of conflict favors no one - it exhausts the state, dulls the noble military, and brings great suffering to the people.

In my own view, the Tao of battle is no battle - that is to say, a way of decisiveness of spirit; a clarity of purpose - a Straightpath. For the greatest battles of all are those that are won but never fought. And the battles we must fight must be won without war.

For war as a paradigm whole is not to be fought, only God can slay this beast, because as it is from heaven thrown down, it must be on earth refused.

Peace as a paradigm builds on its own truth, a reality that is very distinct from that of war, along a path that takes our nations far away from the midnight darkness of war.

It serves the people. It guards our hope. It defends where it must. It teaches our nations. It enobles our states. It fosters our own undertakings of Country. It preserves the order of our generations. It prospers the spirit of our humanity. It is sufficient in and of itself, being confident of its own truth. And it leaves all things to the invincible and omnipotent defense of Almighty God.
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Propser the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

On Religion with Honor

SO BY THEIR FRUITS you will know them.

Matthew 7: 20
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THE FIRST AND ONLY prohibition of our good LORD to our first parents was to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This prohibition is symbolic of a choice: A choice to become independent from God; a choice to accept exile away from God.

For the freedom to know good and evil is to become as our Creator, the one Ultimate Judge and the one Absolute Ruler of all creation, seen and unseen. This exposed our humanity to sin.

It was this choice that destroyed our original liberty.

It was this choice that overthrew the original order of the visible universe.

It was this choice that turned our heritage of life and of light into an abyss of sin and of death.

And it was a choice that was not freely undertaken by our first parents but was the result of the willfull interference of Satan with our eternal destiny as the one whole lineage of the generations of Man.

Indeed, it was this choice that stole from us, our one peace.

Thus, in the eyes of our LORD and of all of heaven, we are all victims by first principle.

Now, my dear Christian soul, our most loving Jesus Christ commanded each and every one of us to produce eternal fruit which is fruit that is edible for all mankind and good for all time.

I offer you that both the fruits of the other trees of the garden of our faded Eden mentioned in Genesis and the fruit that is mentioned by our Lord Christ here in the Gospel of Matthew is the same.

It is the fruit of virtue which is right action.

And those trees of old, my beloved friend and companion, are symbolic not only of each and every human person gifted with a timeless soul, these tress are also symbolic of each and every one of our nations gifted by our LORD to all mankind for the building up of the good of the human communities of our inhabited earth, the sheltering of the life of our shared humanity and the advancement of the one peace of our one human race.

Beloved of God, Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace.

Regardless of how one is so religiously inclined to take into his or her heart, the one person of the one Savior of all humankind, our most loving Jesus Christ is real - his ageless teachings are real, his substance and his being is real and his love for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of mankind is real.

He is the one Truelight of our shared humanity.

In the one Solidarity, Jesus Christ is our Exemplar, the First of our First Magnitudes.

There is more to our existence, my beloved friend and constant companion, than war and suffering, let us strive to produce the fruits of our honorable religion and rejoice in the dawning of our hope for the Peace of Christ is upon our poor world - for our good and the good of all men and women of good will.

Let us therefore, cultivate in the garden of our hearts with God, the trees of our true selves and produce for our LORD and for each other the fruits of a good and honorable religion - worship our one LORD with honor and serve God's Kingdom of Peace with both virtue and light that we may bless our Creator's creation with every kind of good thing that is edible unto all mankind, each of us bearing those fruits which are eternally pleasing to our one God.

Let us compete in good works, one honorable religion with another, one faithful nation with another, and become for our poor world what Jesus Christ - however we perceive him to be - would have each of us be - both as individual human beings and as individual human nations - as good trees bearing those much needed good fruits of every kind for all mankind; fruit that is edible unto all men, women and children of every nation of the one family of the nations of mankind which are fruits that remain good and sweet for our one LORD for all time.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
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SO BY THEIR FRUITS you will know them - by their works they shall be revealed.

Those Ordinary Days

WHEN THERE SEEMS A LULL IN THE FRAY
in the battle to secure our hearts everyday
let us not be fooled by the enemy of our souls
for the striving for peace indeed is fierce
and the war to win our infinite worlds within
abate not from without, my friend and companion,
for the stillness is only certain and true
where the quiet is an indwelling from within,
alone with the Alone and intimate with the Intimate:
So let us not be deluded by the guile that whispers
that all is oh so quiet everywhere in our poor world,
let us not be drawn in by those oh so ordinary days
those oh so dreary, long and drawn out days
when there seems to be a lull in the fray
in the battle to secure our hearts everyday
for all is still only when we are well with God
and we are well with God when we cherish from within
the one Beautiful whose reflections we are striving to be -
So these days we must count our blessings, Beloved of God,
living at all times in praise and exaltation to the one God
grateful for the gift of belonging to God and each other in God:
Alleluia, Amen to God, Alleluia to the LORD.
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"The LORD himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still."

Exodus 14: 14

On the Beginning of All Things New x

AT THE DAWNING OF THE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH, my beloved friend and constant companion - after our General Judgment at the Last Day - here at the beginning of all things new - I would that you shall prayerfully ponder upon these things that I shall share with each of you:

If the holy angels in heaven are arrayed in their choirs; our humanity at our restoration shall be arrayed as our one family of nations - ascended nations, perfected in peace and infinitely wholesome with all kinds of good things. For God shall be our Country, God's perfect Peace shall be our state and we shall each possess as our eternal belonging, the wonderful strength of all of our national communities - all who are good and who have left this world in friendship with God, reborn and perfected in everlasting friendships with each other in God, dwelling forever in pious society with all the holy angels of God.

Truelight shall imbue and permeate our quicksilver reality with a golden radiance, as the infinite majesty of the one Presence of our LORD - our one triune Perfection, shall for all eternity completely rest upon the one whole one of our human habitation; upon all of our worlds and all of our cities in the visible universe stretching out from before our feet.

Our own true skies shall be conscious and awake to our human longings and evermore shall the radiant light of our heavens be open to our heart's yearnings as well as responsive to our mind's eagerness to learn - for not only shall we be ageless as the angels, we shall also be timeless as they are timeless and travel the way the timeless and the ageless travel - by speed of spirit - moving from thought to thought, sliding from moment to moment, and we shall nevermore feel pain nor hunger, neither shall the fear of separation or death anymore haunt our steps as we labor to discover and understand together the inexhaustible mysteries of time and creation, salvation and redemption - ever as the vision of our LORD opens up to our souls to bring our lives forevermore into a state of constant felicity.

And, greatest and most exquisite of all wonders - our Savior, Jesus Christ - our one and only Truelight, shall walk among us once again - even as the most gentle mind and the most loving heart of our Lord Christ dwell with us from within as our own true rest, ever as a timeless peace in our souls, and along with all the blessed Saints of God - those prophets, kings, queens, bishops - the all the true heroes of all mankind - each and every one of them servants of God from all times and from all places whose eternal fruits are edible for all and fruitful for all time - who are, each of them, elect of God from eternity and upon whose happy company we shall be included forever as the one ascended family of the perfected nations of mankind.

And we shall know all of this and many, many, many more things when we get there, Beloved of God - but verily, we will not get there - at the one gathering - as perfected nations lest our own nations survive here in this midnight place of war and sin; here in our poor world.

That we may each survive into the coming of the new as individuals is also true but is it not infinitely better, my beloved friend and constant companion, to persevere as nations together here as well as in the Hereafter? For the benefits of Country is true and its promise is obviously manifest to us even here whilst we yet journey with our hopes together through exile time; ever as we experience the reality of the unfolding of our faiths together today.

So in the unfolding of our reality today, my beloved friend and constant companion, here in this present time, even as war is still among our nations, let us be sure that sufficient to and for our good is the evil therewith and so let us be ever mindful of all of these things as well that we may learn to respect and understand the reason why things are they way they must be: why we must make this one choice of the one peace or forever lose something good in our becoming that we will never know the completeness of.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

TO ALL MY ROMAN CATHOLIC brethren and sisters, that indwelling life of the Holy Spirit that in eternity we shall share with each other within ourselves through our one, most loving Jesus Christ Who is our rest and our peace forever in our souls is the crown of life which is the actual possession of the promised truth of the one triune Perfection - everlasting life - that in its wholeness in you and me and in all of us together in God is the fullness of our Holy Mother Church in eternity and this vision of our one family of ascended and perfected nations dwelling together in everlasting peace in eternity with and in God and all the holy angels of God is that part of our creed we say together during every celebration of Holy Mass where we profess with conviction of faith, to God and to each other, our belief in "the resurrection of the body and life everlasting".

And the "AMEN" at the conclusion of that same creed, my beloved friend and constant companion, is the choice to own up to this, our own hopes together.

As the fruits required from us by our Savior is one that is edible for all mankind and good for all time, never must any of us judge those who are different from us without hope. For in the end, there shall remain only those that serve and those that serve not.

Peace in the Middle East

THE PEACE OF JESUS CHRIST, Prince of Peace, be unto all men of good will.
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BELOVED OF GOD, all our beloved friends and honorable companions, observe in your own heart of hearts the ordering of the times; observe closely, O ye numberless Stars of our Father Abraham, where the focus of our concern is at this very moment being directed by the LORD of all our lives forever, as this season of new beginnings find us today being inevitably centered on the numerous afflictions that the spirit of war have presently and undeniably chosen, in our souls and in the souls of our nations, to cumulatively inflict on the very land - here on our inhabited earth - that our one God have so cherished and graced with His Peace: upon that region of Middle East Asia in general and upon the lands of ancient Israel where dwells brothers born not only of the same spirit and faith but also descended from the same corporeal line of Abrahamic descent.

Are these events not as words spoken to our hearts, by the LORD of all Lords, which is also the desire of all of heaven itself, here and Now, in this season of peace so that the will of our hope may thus be properly inaugurated to the cause of our suffering humanity, a cause that is now borne by the capable shoulders of the vanguard of this dawning which is our one Fold of the one Firmament, O ye numberless Stars of Father Abraham?

Therefore, let us arise from our prayers to the one Beautiful, Beloved of God, and with vigilance of heart, and much hope in ourselves for each other and for all of our nations of the one family of the nations of mankind, carry on with a sense of real purpose and steadfast direction in the way towards which the will of the one peace is being directed by the one LORD of all of our lives - let us move towards addressing the situation between modern Israel and unborn Palestine - in the name of all the nameless suffering humanity, who are all our peers, friends and companions, who are hitherto afflicted by wars' curse - towards the attainment of lasting Peace in the Middle East and from the Middle East, and the lands that our LORD have chosen as our God's own, outward to bless all the communities of mankind in the way that our LORD God had promised our Father Abraham of old.

So listen and hearken to this call, all of you who are born of this promise of old!

For this is our day, this is our time, this is our labor - and verily, there is no other labor that can return God's favor to our poor world beside this one. For if we should hold back or exceed in our will, the promise of those good, edible and eternal fruits that is and must be born within each and every one of us, woe be unto us for not only shall it be recorded in eternity that the generations of this present time have so wilfully chosen to squander this season of hope, the generations to come shall also remember us not with blessings in their hearts but with curses to our existence - let us therefore never take these things lightly that we may progress in our hope and from this, gain into our own possession, the joy that is to be had by aligning our will toward all things that bring forth to shine in the darkness of our midnight world the golden glory of God in this creation, here in the reality of our human habitation, and Now in this one world suspended in an unknown and hostile void (which is quite literally lethal to both our bodies and our souls if it were not for our LORD and our LORD's holy hosts).

CEASE ALL ACTS OF VIOLENCE, ye sides, for the one peace of our peoples can never be won in fields of battle. Let wisdom and not darkness rule each and all of thy acts, and let the will of peace - a will that hold to no other side but the one side of sacred life - and the hope that is heretofore invested therewith drive forward the unfolding of these events - in modern Israel and unborn Palestine - for verily, our LORD God will hold each and every one you to sure account for the suffering of all the nameless human beings whom if by your intransigence further afflicts and have so far afflicted with much suffering and grief - to the very last hairs on their heads.

O you who love and fear the LORD of all life, hearken to our God's will of peace - in this season for building - that we may learn to build, and that we may proceed to do so - for all men, women and children of each and every nation of the one family of the nations of mankind.
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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

2009: A Time for Hope, A Season to Build

THE PEACE OF JESUS CHRIST, Prince of Peace, be unto all men of good will.
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STARTING THIS MOMENT, Beloved of God, on this day, the 1st of January of the year of our LORD 2009, come the favorable season for building on the peace of our world. For this day marks the 1290th day in Daniel 12 now manifest to our world as a quite real and almost tangible promise of peace as well as an understanding of the eternal fruits of this peace.

It is a choice to consistently, perseveringly and unwaveringly bring the time, times, and half-a-time quickening of the heart into a real economy of human effort, individual as well as national, that shall by the grace and through the beneficence of our LORD, sanctify the hopes of our nations and herald for our unsung generations, the dawning of the new age of peace.

For each of our nations is as an altar of life, our nameless and honest labors of Country, pleasing to the one LORD of life Whose will it is for us to build upon this creation, the necessary things that shall upon each of our nations become the foundations of our peace which shall help lead souls towards attaining liberation and union in, with and through God. And as each of our nations are indeed, instruments of this peace, they are as altars to the God of all life and Holy Sustainer of all of the everliving and are never to be sanctified to nor must it ever stir with and for war.

Because as with all things that come to us from our good God, these things in Holy Scripture prepare us for those other things that shall then pave the way for better things that come.

Now, it is up to our world of the present to cooperate with God's grace to build up a better time and place - one that is able to withstand the approaching tempest which is very terrible indeed.

Lest no one survive, my beloved friend and constant companion - let us all pray that our LORD is merciful to our suffering humanity, victims by first principle - each and every one of us, without exception - good, because each of us is capable of love and of being loved - but love is a choice - and all choice is free.

Yet as our LORD is good: This moment, this year marks the beginning of the favorable season for building - building up the only storm shelters that our humanity possesses in this inhabited earth - the shelters of Country: the warmth of human communities, the sails of human hope, the will of the human spirit to endure.

ALL the nations of mankind must become a FAMILY, live in the spirit of FAMILY and build in the way that a FAMILY builds - for the enemy that shall ride the approaching storm is not going to be a human being and shall have absolutely no regard nor respect for our one suffering humanity - whoever the human being and from whatever nation, tribe or family of mankind will make no difference to it, it shall only desire the annihilation of all: An enemy that is also writ in Holy Scripture.

But TIME is not enemy territory - for time flows not for any enemy of God. We can always rest in our sufficiency, be at peace and stir not with the stirring of war - for the wicked indeed, shall have no rest.

Therefore, those who are patient and persevere in time with the labor of our present hopes till the 1335th day shall be blessed with the everlasting fruits of those hopes that each of us shall share and experience, alone or together, near or far, in the course of this season in exile time.

The span between the two numbered days between 1290 and 1335 means that the work that we shall all become committed to in, with, for and through God with and for each other on behalf of the coming generations of all the nations of our one family of nations shall be very difficult yet, commensurate with this difficulty is the hope that each of us shall share and experience, alone or together, near or far, which shall be just as real and just as attainable as the reality of its one, divine Provider and most beneficent Giver of all good things.

Therefore, my beloved friend and constant companion, let us prayerfully ponder on this and seek in good faith the LORD of all understanding that the one Light of our LORD may become for us our guide, our own truelight, ever as we walk this mountain path, alone with the Alone and intimate with the Intimate, unto the one Summit from whence all things began and shall begin again anew.

From always to always...

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Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.
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I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.
 
This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

John 13: 34-35

"What War Does to One, War Does to All."