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Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

The ides of march are coming around once more, my love. This year, I shall write you a poem - "Starlight Smile".

Some people think human suffering is a problem that needs to be solved. This is the same kind of thinking that proposes to the soul of Mankind that line that death is something humanity needs to control or manipulate.

Suffering is something that needs to be shared. The sharing is the problem and not the suffering itself. Too many people try to think that what amount we deem to give to others is the size of the gift like happiness is a material thing to be had only by measures earthly and base. But the giving IS the gift and this spiritual reality is a truth that is plain in the Gospel messages.

Material thinking would also have us believe that death is something that Mankind needs to bring under its direct control like death were some created thing to be manipulated according to our good pleasure. But death is a divine decree, it is a motion in the course of time that fulfills in mortal things, the immortal plan of the one, eternal Divine and once grasped by hearts willing to see beyond the veil that covers it with shadow and tears is a not thing worth the abject despair that makes derelict the life that we all need to be able continue to live in spite of it.

Death is something that needs more respect than fear for death is but an extension of Justice's arm; an undertaking of hope for some, a reason to love for those souls even fewer than some, yet being the sum of the faith of all things, death beyond the terrible image of itself is a motion of a grace kindred to the longing of all who know and love God and seek His goodness and mercy, serving the LORD with a righteous fear.

Prayer therefore, my precious Starshine, must be ours to practice, difficult though many a time it may be, so that our hopes remain always like our breathing together. For prayer is the breath of the soul, my love - a source of grace.

Life is an art; loving, a craft of life and human sexuality, a tool. Beauty is the impression of life as an expression of its art. It is the substance present in those timeless moments that each of us get - in the ahas, the wows, the hmms and the yahoos - that stay with us like an indescribable thing, etched forever in the wake of our memory, gently beckoning us closer into the conscious heart of its playful yet quiet mystery; enabling that growing sense of marvelous unraveling from within windows of our soul, like lapses in time that reveal the timeless, fleeting glimpses of itself leading to Itself.

Sex and sexuality and the landscapes of this most difficult of journeys that you shall take from within yourself, dearest Starshine, is another matter we shall also take up together along this mountain path. Suffice to say for now, my love, beauty does not entirely depend on sexuality nor does joy arise from its misuse. Understand that this is a thing that goes very, very deep into the human soul for sexuality is a gift to our Mankind by our LORD God Himself and you shall have for yourself a measure of the difficulty we face as regards to its actual divine purpose against the overwhelming tides of the misconceptions that exist surrounding the issue of human sexuality that lay hostile siege against life.

For sin has been set against the original order of creation for such a time yet let us come now to a holy remembrance that not for evil's sake does time exist for verily, there are choices that are laid before Mankind at this present time that that took thousands of years in exile time to mature. Choices that are difficult yet choices still that are present, here and Now, for reasons that are not only good but are also of a good that is completely comprehensible to the soul of Mankind.

There is nothing that is easy that is worthwhile - this is true for all realms, human and angelic, in time as well as in eternity. The labor of human civilization and its sustainable peace is a reflection of this truth. As regards to our inhabited earth, we are at a crossroads as one whole humanity in this present time; a defining moment sleeps within each heart that is called by heaven to awaken to the choice to claim our natural right to a common destiny as a one family of nations and shape the nature of the times to come according to the history that we shall write during these days by the common and nameless lives that we shall live each day, in this generation and on to the next, so that the foundation of better things may be laid for the rest of the generations of life.

This or the whole planet shall descend into another thousand years of conflict until the right choice comes around again but the unthinkable burden of this shall not be theirs but ours. But I believe in our ability to deliver this promise for it is not for want of good that there is evil in our world but for want of contrast between what is and what is not. The heart of Mankind, in spite of our brokenness, shall always tend towards the good - you knew this, my loveliest love, implicitly and unerringly - and you held on to it. So do I and so shall I, my darlingest.

I have to go for now, my darlingest dear. It's such a beautiful Sunday!

I love you.

Always to always,

Pusing

I feel most especially for our little Starshines who are touched by the curse of war, my love. Our young ones are quite resilient but there needs be the expulsion of war as a paradigm whole and the rebuilding of the things of peace for our young to be able to utilize this intrinsic resilience to the obtaining of its purpose, the preservation of their own hope for peace and will for life, and the maturation of the potential universe that sleeps within their soul.

War and the expressions of war are terrible, the violence of battle cause traumatic injuries not only to the corporal body but also to the human soul that understand it not. And children most especially have no ability whatsoever to comprehend the violence of battle.

Where the children are not given the requisite environment that they need to be able to grow into their natural vision as human beings, where the hope of the young are not insulated from the conflagration of war, the whole community is placed in a state of calamity. War when given free entry into the lines of our generations shall seek to confound it and to eventually overthrow its natural order, wreaking havoc upon its wake, leaving gaps where gaps should not exist, division where no division must thrive, turning fathers against sons, sons against fathers, siblings against siblings, destroying the peace and cohesion of our families, diluting the strength of entire human communities, miring entire peoples in poverty and despair, making vulnerable our nations and exposing our shared humanity against the beast that seek to devour it. Mothers as well and the responsible paths that lead into motherhood when exposed to an environment of conflict shall ultimately defeat the purpose for which the defense exists, maintain the life of our humanity and the order of our generations and by doing so, preserve all of the life of our world.
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