Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
Knowledge, my love, born of the conviction of faith as truth in the heart (like dew that is distilled upon our soul) that our LORD God is one LORD must ultimately lead the heart of a believer to an understanding of the absolute victory of all good things, and this I know in my being - and in common with the other two Abrahamic traditions - because the God that I behold in my heart is but one God and one God alone.
Now, my Christian faith knows by sacred revelation of the one triune Perfection that this victory is a triumph that IS - for all time and into eternity - by way of love. It is because of love - and love properly expressed as one love - that all good things shall not only overcome, they shall prevail - and prevail forever.
For there is no greater thing that a Christian - of any and all denomination - can offer to the good as well as to the common of our shared humanity than this; that God is Love.
And the greatest expression of this Love is found in the person of our Lord Christ.
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The salvation of the individual and the common destiny of our nations; these two are two quite distinct things that lead into each other - the former being an expression of the first part of the one greatest commandment to love the LORD with all spirit and with all truth and the latter being the second half of that one, same commandment which is to love others in God as true self - one love.
Now, the interior life of every Christian, I believe, lives and breathes by this ascendant motion in exile time and the spirituality of all honorable religions, most especially, our Abrahamic kindred in the grace of the faith, express their own particular recognition of this great commandment to love in their own tradition, as a common yearning of the human heart - to be able to express love, kindness and compassion and to be able to allow its fullest expression in and amongst our shared humanity.
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Upon these meditations are the to be derived the principles of diaconal service of which truth, and the bearing and the sharing of its witness, I am building towards as the specific domain of the Company of Saint Lawrence the Deacon from within and among the First Magnitude Order of the Peace of Jesus Christ in our one Solidarity, my love.
For a permanent deacon must be sober in bearing, prudent and upright in action being proven in character in the face of God and of the nations of God; he must be able to hold steadfastly the image of the beauty of the bride of Christ, our Holy Mother Church, in his heart of hearts and strive to bring it forth with all his love as light into the darkness of our world; to serve all souls without distinction - most especially in the ministering of their temporal needs.
He must be made ready for Holy Orders, a readiness born of a sacred conviction that is to last forever and therefore, made ready by our Lord Christ for acceptance of this unmerited gift and not in, by and of himself - a sinner in need of so much saving and a wretch in need of so much healing.
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Now, the ministering to the temporal needs of our shared humanity require a deeper meditation on the needful things that make us completely human or the morality of human need.
There are two aspects to the morality of human need: the positive and the negative aspect of which love and justice respectively are the two primary arms of the permanent diaconate.
The need to defend from hunger both require the recognition of the need to feed the hungry as well as the need to extinguish the unjust causes for hunger.
I shall devote further meditation on this topic - I have already established a system of common needs which shall benefit from being grounded in this morality.
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Twilight Pawprints - this is an accounting or a business entity, that I envision and shall establish with kindred hearts - a media publishing limited liability company that supports a charity whose main mission is to combat false economies of any and all kinds - to work to alleviate the plight of our nameless poor by providing them with honest forms of livelihood and therefore, a place in the real economy of our nations and away from false economies that empower naught but evil and the evil in evil things.
I still have to work out a vision and a mission statement for this project, tenders, as well as a proper timeline for its launch. I already know how to start it off - its initial market niche, initial product concept and capital cost.
Arcs in the Sky shall in time also find its publishing genesis in Twilight Pawprints.
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So much to do...
But I have to go for now, my love.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
20090419
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
There is a kid out there, my love - a very special Starshine, and his name is Adam - he would be about 5 or 6 years old by now. And of course, once ours is once never forgot - so God bless you, Adam - and all of you, each of our precious Starshine - as a firmament whole - most especially those of you who are directly affected by the curse of War - each of the all of you is part of the reason I, we - our Miyang and all the other numberless Stars who love you, seen and unseen, by the grace of our LORD, drive relentlessly to establish this work as a foundation of better things to come.
For in each of you, our precious Starshine, are begun the lineages of the generations of life - each of your potential, however seemingly lost it may feel in the great sweep of all things, my dear, is tremendous - for it is written, and so it is, amen, my love, so it is.
Therefore, stay close to each other, and let us take this timeless journey together even as those Arcs across the Sky, into the dawn and the breaking of the new.
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Now, let us ponder on power, my love.
The sword, Excalibur, is a similitude of power; that power, most especially the power to rule over the people (that sovereign right to rule over thy peers which is a right that by Justice belongs to God alone), once gripped with selfish hands ultimately makes the wielder impotent in the sight of Men, angels and of God.
But power once wielded by a heart that is free and willing to make the surrender of kings and therefore, is able to free its inherent promise of good for and on behalf of the nations of needful Mankind, ultimately unleashes in that person, by the grace of God, and despite of all things, the nobility of the true kings of Mankind.
Because willing surrender to the nobility of sacred service brought upon by a spirit of true and loving sacrifice are the hallmarks of the greatest of our kings and our rulers of old, elect from eternity. They all share this victory as a gift of God among themselves and this nobility is their correct heritage and their royal legend that converge unto all of present time - to remind us, across our generations arrayed in time, of what is great in the humanity in ourselves - and by this remembrance therefore, past into present hope.
How power is wielded defines the way in which a human ruler is forever remembered by our nations meant by our one, peerless Creator to last from emerging, maturing, to mature nations in exile time and in the course of our hope perfected in, of and by God through Country, into eternity as ascended nations forever.
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Peace in Middle East Asia - as an Area Whole - the Area Wholes.
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Twilight Pawprints: Vision and Mission.
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Arcs in the Sky.
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I have to go for now, my love. There is so much to be done, so much to be done.
I love you, my darlingest dear.
Always to always,
Pusing
There is a kid out there, my love - a very special Starshine, and his name is Adam - he would be about 5 or 6 years old by now. And of course, once ours is once never forgot - so God bless you, Adam - and all of you, each of our precious Starshine - as a firmament whole - most especially those of you who are directly affected by the curse of War - each of the all of you is part of the reason I, we - our Miyang and all the other numberless Stars who love you, seen and unseen, by the grace of our LORD, drive relentlessly to establish this work as a foundation of better things to come.
For in each of you, our precious Starshine, are begun the lineages of the generations of life - each of your potential, however seemingly lost it may feel in the great sweep of all things, my dear, is tremendous - for it is written, and so it is, amen, my love, so it is.
Therefore, stay close to each other, and let us take this timeless journey together even as those Arcs across the Sky, into the dawn and the breaking of the new.
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Now, let us ponder on power, my love.
The sword, Excalibur, is a similitude of power; that power, most especially the power to rule over the people (that sovereign right to rule over thy peers which is a right that by Justice belongs to God alone), once gripped with selfish hands ultimately makes the wielder impotent in the sight of Men, angels and of God.
But power once wielded by a heart that is free and willing to make the surrender of kings and therefore, is able to free its inherent promise of good for and on behalf of the nations of needful Mankind, ultimately unleashes in that person, by the grace of God, and despite of all things, the nobility of the true kings of Mankind.
Because willing surrender to the nobility of sacred service brought upon by a spirit of true and loving sacrifice are the hallmarks of the greatest of our kings and our rulers of old, elect from eternity. They all share this victory as a gift of God among themselves and this nobility is their correct heritage and their royal legend that converge unto all of present time - to remind us, across our generations arrayed in time, of what is great in the humanity in ourselves - and by this remembrance therefore, past into present hope.
How power is wielded defines the way in which a human ruler is forever remembered by our nations meant by our one, peerless Creator to last from emerging, maturing, to mature nations in exile time and in the course of our hope perfected in, of and by God through Country, into eternity as ascended nations forever.
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Peace in Middle East Asia - as an Area Whole - the Area Wholes.
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Twilight Pawprints: Vision and Mission.
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Arcs in the Sky.
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I have to go for now, my love. There is so much to be done, so much to be done.
I love you, my darlingest dear.
Always to always,
Pusing
Saturday, April 18, 2009
20090418
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
On the End of Days
There are some people in our needful world, my love, consumed with so much worry about the end of things, who forget to even begin in themselves that necessary journey upon which the purpose of all these things in all of creation are intended by the timeless LORD of all time; that journey which all human beings and all human nations are in the course of our hope in exile time intrinsically called by a desire that runs from deep within, beckoning us to Itself like a shedding away of the darkness.
This world will end, my love - that is a scientific fact. This whole visible universe shall in time exhaust the very purpose for its being - but the business of life and the living of its reason to be, it shall continue - and continue in ways often profoundly mysterious even to the deepest eye of faith, but continue it will, my love, not because things have an end but because life's reason for being is an endless truth - for the glory of God is eternal.
So it is the business of beginnings that all human hope is intended and not the despair of things that are not given to it's virtue - indeed, no man nor angel knows the precise time of those things that are neither in themselves native to either our respective stations in the universal order of life nor to the individual will that is possessed by the intelligence that is seated from within each our being - for only God knows the precise hour of the Last Day.
It is the lack of this knowledge in each of us and in all of us that work to advance the greater sweep of those higher purposes of creation that all good things know to trust and fulfill.
Must this be a cause for despair?
Life is activity, my love - and this activity transcends the corruption that rots away at the evil in evil things. Hope is an inherently human virtue, therefore, let us now begin to live by its works - knowing enough of what precious promise there is within each individual human being to begin to see what great potential for good we each possess as individual human persons but above all as each individual human nations - beyond our differences and despite any difficulties - of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Not by tyranny of War nor the acceptance of the will of war can we ever begin to appreciate all of this for the desire of War are not these things.
If we love what we do, even as imperfect human beings, this love shall seek to perfectly define us and if we allow for this love to perfectly define us, we shall begin to mature in time and within the order of God's grace in the age of our virtues to even approach the true promise of the creatures that we were intended by God right from the very beginning, and in eternity become perfected as proper* human beings - to work the works of God with the angels of God forever.
What is a proper human being? To answer this, my love, I rewrote the whole paragraph:
If we love what we do as imperfect human beings, even the act of loving itself, this love shall seek to perfectly define us and if we allow for this love to perfectly define us, we shall begin to mature in time and within the order of God's grace in the age of our virtues to even approach the true promise of the creatures that we were intended by God right from the very beginning, and in eternity become perfected in our shared humanity as human beings, in complete possession of ourselves - and of our names - and being given to our timeless and ageless belongings to each other - from always to always - as ascended nations - to work the works of God with the angels of God forever.
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I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
On the End of Days
There are some people in our needful world, my love, consumed with so much worry about the end of things, who forget to even begin in themselves that necessary journey upon which the purpose of all these things in all of creation are intended by the timeless LORD of all time; that journey which all human beings and all human nations are in the course of our hope in exile time intrinsically called by a desire that runs from deep within, beckoning us to Itself like a shedding away of the darkness.
This world will end, my love - that is a scientific fact. This whole visible universe shall in time exhaust the very purpose for its being - but the business of life and the living of its reason to be, it shall continue - and continue in ways often profoundly mysterious even to the deepest eye of faith, but continue it will, my love, not because things have an end but because life's reason for being is an endless truth - for the glory of God is eternal.
So it is the business of beginnings that all human hope is intended and not the despair of things that are not given to it's virtue - indeed, no man nor angel knows the precise time of those things that are neither in themselves native to either our respective stations in the universal order of life nor to the individual will that is possessed by the intelligence that is seated from within each our being - for only God knows the precise hour of the Last Day.
It is the lack of this knowledge in each of us and in all of us that work to advance the greater sweep of those higher purposes of creation that all good things know to trust and fulfill.
Must this be a cause for despair?
Life is activity, my love - and this activity transcends the corruption that rots away at the evil in evil things. Hope is an inherently human virtue, therefore, let us now begin to live by its works - knowing enough of what precious promise there is within each individual human being to begin to see what great potential for good we each possess as individual human persons but above all as each individual human nations - beyond our differences and despite any difficulties - of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Not by tyranny of War nor the acceptance of the will of war can we ever begin to appreciate all of this for the desire of War are not these things.
If we love what we do, even as imperfect human beings, this love shall seek to perfectly define us and if we allow for this love to perfectly define us, we shall begin to mature in time and within the order of God's grace in the age of our virtues to even approach the true promise of the creatures that we were intended by God right from the very beginning, and in eternity become perfected as proper* human beings - to work the works of God with the angels of God forever.
What is a proper human being? To answer this, my love, I rewrote the whole paragraph:
If we love what we do as imperfect human beings, even the act of loving itself, this love shall seek to perfectly define us and if we allow for this love to perfectly define us, we shall begin to mature in time and within the order of God's grace in the age of our virtues to even approach the true promise of the creatures that we were intended by God right from the very beginning, and in eternity become perfected in our shared humanity as human beings, in complete possession of ourselves - and of our names - and being given to our timeless and ageless belongings to each other - from always to always - as ascended nations - to work the works of God with the angels of God forever.
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I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Friday, April 17, 2009
20090417
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
The evil in evil things, my love, as a general rule, becomes aware of us when we become aware of it. This spirit of evil, my love, conscious of our being aware of it, constantly seeks to make itself part of our will, that it may have free access to our hearts. This seeking is commonly manifest in various temptations that like a horde of rabid beasts, lay constant siege at the very door of our hearts, ever plotting diverse ways from secret and subtle to violent and overt to make their final assault against the threshold of our souls. And their way of temptation, my love, always, always involves one thing - a lie. This lie is a venom that once accepted by our will as truth corrupts the line of our common defense from within, causing much to deny from our hearts, the promise of many, many things.
Now, that is the mildest way that I can put, what terrific harm the Devil and his fallen angels can cause to the souls of our native humanity, and by direct extension to the spheres of sacred life that fall under the special care and specific protection of the stewardship of the one family of the nations of Mankind. For as every nation is a scion of our generations each of which is a one whole lineage in time sprung from our one parental inheritance as human beings, they are kindred in form; their visible form. And as every nation is established by an everlasting Covenant before the LORD, each of our nations is kindred also in their natures; their invisible natures.
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I have to go for now, my love. There is yet much to be gathered, I know in my heart, from our further meditation on these things - and we will gather with them.
For all things visible are all things sprung from the substance of invisible things, were we to envision something as lasting as human civilization without careful consideration on the things beyond the veil of this fleeting world that truly last, it would be reckless - but knowingly doing so, that is not our work.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
By the way, I have been thinking about the concept of a secondary capital and I believe it would be advantageous to establish one, rather, two here in the Philippines as well - one in Mindanao and another in the Visayas; that would work - in their proper seasons - to eliminate attenuation in the executive will, put our Congress in the locality and our juridical institutions disciplined by even proximity to the will of state. These cities, especially the one in Mindanao, would acquire the charter that would allow them to possess the Abrahamic vision of the "New Cordova" that we are still presently trying to make clear in the eye of our mind. Now, each nation is unique in its course and so we must understand that there are some things in the application that should only belong to a particular nation.
However, all things particular to this specific endeavor of Country shall be as naught if War in the Philippines shall be allowed to persist for these visions do not belong in that paradigm, my love.
I have also been thinking of our common market and its inherent potential - of a suitable heavy industry, of something maritime in nature - like shipbuilding - a very viable thing depending on other things - on tourism, resource conservation, proper waste disposal, honorable citizenship - etc. I have also been thinking of other nations, those who are in need in the same way that we are in need - which ultimately means all our nations - at this present time, least to greatest - of the one family of the nations of Mankind but specifically those who are most affected by the curse of War.
We have to muster in our Republic will, the strength to turn away from this present darkness that seem to cover this, our inhabited earth, with a murky blight that makes our kindred nations strangers to one another.
Lastly, in my own view - the war in Afghanistan can not be won by military means alone - there must also begin a real political dialogue between the sides who are involved in her interest. It must be understood in the pursuit of lasting peace that there are things particular to Afghanistan as herself without which her people shall be restless. Both sides must understand that their will must take this into its regard - that Afghanistan herself as a whole must be given time to find her own peace - without which no vision of Country shall take rest from among the Afghan people.
Once again, each nation is unique in its course and so we must understand that there are some things in the application that should only belong to a particular nation - but that all belong to one family, that all belong to life, and none to death.
In the interim, static area defense, most especially focused on the major cities that relieve the area population and allow for the building of the habitations, systems and institutions of life, reactive deployment and not proactive manoeuvre should be the gist of operations. I shall not linger on the specifics as I have already proposed this type of defense in the past in one of my posts - many months back.
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The evil in evil things, my love, as a general rule, becomes aware of us when we become aware of it. This spirit of evil, my love, conscious of our being aware of it, constantly seeks to make itself part of our will, that it may have free access to our hearts. This seeking is commonly manifest in various temptations that like a horde of rabid beasts, lay constant siege at the very door of our hearts, ever plotting diverse ways from secret and subtle to violent and overt to make their final assault against the threshold of our souls. And their way of temptation, my love, always, always involves one thing - a lie. This lie is a venom that once accepted by our will as truth corrupts the line of our common defense from within, causing much to deny from our hearts, the promise of many, many things.
Now, that is the mildest way that I can put, what terrific harm the Devil and his fallen angels can cause to the souls of our native humanity, and by direct extension to the spheres of sacred life that fall under the special care and specific protection of the stewardship of the one family of the nations of Mankind. For as every nation is a scion of our generations each of which is a one whole lineage in time sprung from our one parental inheritance as human beings, they are kindred in form; their visible form. And as every nation is established by an everlasting Covenant before the LORD, each of our nations is kindred also in their natures; their invisible natures.
---<--@
I have to go for now, my love. There is yet much to be gathered, I know in my heart, from our further meditation on these things - and we will gather with them.
For all things visible are all things sprung from the substance of invisible things, were we to envision something as lasting as human civilization without careful consideration on the things beyond the veil of this fleeting world that truly last, it would be reckless - but knowingly doing so, that is not our work.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
By the way, I have been thinking about the concept of a secondary capital and I believe it would be advantageous to establish one, rather, two here in the Philippines as well - one in Mindanao and another in the Visayas; that would work - in their proper seasons - to eliminate attenuation in the executive will, put our Congress in the locality and our juridical institutions disciplined by even proximity to the will of state. These cities, especially the one in Mindanao, would acquire the charter that would allow them to possess the Abrahamic vision of the "New Cordova" that we are still presently trying to make clear in the eye of our mind. Now, each nation is unique in its course and so we must understand that there are some things in the application that should only belong to a particular nation.
However, all things particular to this specific endeavor of Country shall be as naught if War in the Philippines shall be allowed to persist for these visions do not belong in that paradigm, my love.
I have also been thinking of our common market and its inherent potential - of a suitable heavy industry, of something maritime in nature - like shipbuilding - a very viable thing depending on other things - on tourism, resource conservation, proper waste disposal, honorable citizenship - etc. I have also been thinking of other nations, those who are in need in the same way that we are in need - which ultimately means all our nations - at this present time, least to greatest - of the one family of the nations of Mankind but specifically those who are most affected by the curse of War.
We have to muster in our Republic will, the strength to turn away from this present darkness that seem to cover this, our inhabited earth, with a murky blight that makes our kindred nations strangers to one another.
Lastly, in my own view - the war in Afghanistan can not be won by military means alone - there must also begin a real political dialogue between the sides who are involved in her interest. It must be understood in the pursuit of lasting peace that there are things particular to Afghanistan as herself without which her people shall be restless. Both sides must understand that their will must take this into its regard - that Afghanistan herself as a whole must be given time to find her own peace - without which no vision of Country shall take rest from among the Afghan people.
Once again, each nation is unique in its course and so we must understand that there are some things in the application that should only belong to a particular nation - but that all belong to one family, that all belong to life, and none to death.
In the interim, static area defense, most especially focused on the major cities that relieve the area population and allow for the building of the habitations, systems and institutions of life, reactive deployment and not proactive manoeuvre should be the gist of operations. I shall not linger on the specifics as I have already proposed this type of defense in the past in one of my posts - many months back.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
20090416
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
Let me tell you, my love, about a dream I've had a few days before the personally very memorable Easter triduum of 2009. I've had a few other dreams, at least those ones that stayed with me, that I haven't yet mentioned but this particular one I should like to put down here because within this dream was you, my darlingest dear.
It was a terrible dream, my love, it was seen from a first person perspective; there was this very prominent list of atrocities that was listed according to their heinousness and their frequency was from the most heinous to the least most inhuman act. The setting of it all although I am not able to see any correlation with historical fact with the elements of this dream felt like it was back in WWII and the Holocaust, my darlingest dear. There was what felt to me like a scene from Bergen Belsen in the middle of the night and there were people, civilians - men, women and children, being thrown whole by men in uniform into this smoking hole in the ground. The thick, white smoke that came from that hole in the ground did not feel like the smoke of a fire but the smoke of poison gas, my darlingest dear. I have this vestigial (or "faint", perhaps "vestigial" is not the right word to use) memory of a scene before that scene that was a scene in the day of the Bergen Belsen camp that was out of context with the proceeding scene of people being thrown alive into a pit because this scene was serene and gave me a sense of wonder, like a dream come true. Anyway, I was witnessing in shock and horror all of the things that was happening in front of my face, there was no sound to the dream, only the terrible feeling that came from this appalling vision in gray scale. This scene from Bergen Belsen seems to occupy a position on the aforesaid list that was quite high on the scale; at the top of the list is something to be carried out at least twice a year. I wanted so much for that vision to end. I felt powerless and an increasing sense of panic grew within me that wanted very much to get away from there and then the scene was replaced by a vision of you, smiling to me like a star in the night; like a safe harbor for my heart amidst all that darkness, beautiful life amidst all this death.
You know, I have never seen a vision of you in a dream like this before, my love - you were well, so very well.
Religious tolerance and an understanding of differences - harmony across all honorable religions of the world - a better, kinder, brighter, nobler world for all men, women and children of our shared humanity - the things of our peace - a home away from Home for all of our one family of nations - these are the things I want to build with you, my love, and this dream speaks to me of the vital importance of not remaining silent - of not allowing those tyrannies that creep into the life of our peoples to take root and mature in the soil of our nations and of evil things to persist in the soul of each our endeavors of Country - because their fruits are not the fruits that our LORD intends from our native belongings to each other, as one human being to another human being - born upon this world of common places and common things and called upon by each our life to tread upon different paths of the one common belonging to life; being by our loneliness called by our longing for God and for Country to arrive by our togetherness, as a scale of wholes upon greater wholes, at a one common destiny - a one whole one where in between the limitless economy of our wholes are those distinctly personal spaces where we find out who we are as each ourselves, but all the rest, my love, is a one timeless, seamless friendship in and with God and each other in God - ascended nations, my love, divinely perfected from our understanding of an imperfect peace.
When I go to our local mall, I am always drawn to the ice skating rink, you know. I see you there, my love, giggling with your friends and I dream of my hope with you of one day being able to share the experience of the ice with you, my bestest, most purrritiest, most cutsiest of friends, in a setting that far outstrips the vague colors of the dreams we are able to dream in this present time. There are colors that are not yet even present in and to this world, my love, for the entire spectrum of life is not yet reflected here and so the experience of living is infinitely dulled, for all of us, suffering humanity, who are present herewith, because present here with us is the great lie of sin and the enveloping darkness that evil things create from it and with it.
Out of all of this I have fashioned a vision for my, our - Philippines, my love - for you share it with me as well, the eternal Philippines - one dream from among all of that dreaming of Country that must now finally begin to awake in my nation and in all of our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
I can not emphasize enough the consequences - a regret that shall be felt by all nations - of any failure to ascend with the ascent of the wholes. For War shall sift through our nations like wheat and our one whole planet is at stake. But peace will prosper the people, repair our broken world and bring rest and rejuvenation to our wounded nations.
We will begin to flesh out the path that shall guide my, well - our people - with you (and indeed, all the true scions of humanity belong to the one family - the one Covenant family of nations) to the necessary and meaningful peace and the vision of our eternal Philippines, my love - indeed, there is so much to do, so much to do - and from here we shall extend our hope and assistance (as far are we could and as much as we are able) to all peoples of good will who shall ever need it while time is yet a flow and our hope yet stays aglow and God-willing, my love, while our LORD still yet allows it.
Yesterday, my love, was Hermeowne's birthday - I know it's misspelled, my darlingest dear, and mispronounced or its it really? And yes, I took her name to prayer with us, yesterday.
I love you, my love. I have to go for now.
Always to always,
Pusing
Let me tell you, my love, about a dream I've had a few days before the personally very memorable Easter triduum of 2009. I've had a few other dreams, at least those ones that stayed with me, that I haven't yet mentioned but this particular one I should like to put down here because within this dream was you, my darlingest dear.
It was a terrible dream, my love, it was seen from a first person perspective; there was this very prominent list of atrocities that was listed according to their heinousness and their frequency was from the most heinous to the least most inhuman act. The setting of it all although I am not able to see any correlation with historical fact with the elements of this dream felt like it was back in WWII and the Holocaust, my darlingest dear. There was what felt to me like a scene from Bergen Belsen in the middle of the night and there were people, civilians - men, women and children, being thrown whole by men in uniform into this smoking hole in the ground. The thick, white smoke that came from that hole in the ground did not feel like the smoke of a fire but the smoke of poison gas, my darlingest dear. I have this vestigial (or "faint", perhaps "vestigial" is not the right word to use) memory of a scene before that scene that was a scene in the day of the Bergen Belsen camp that was out of context with the proceeding scene of people being thrown alive into a pit because this scene was serene and gave me a sense of wonder, like a dream come true. Anyway, I was witnessing in shock and horror all of the things that was happening in front of my face, there was no sound to the dream, only the terrible feeling that came from this appalling vision in gray scale. This scene from Bergen Belsen seems to occupy a position on the aforesaid list that was quite high on the scale; at the top of the list is something to be carried out at least twice a year. I wanted so much for that vision to end. I felt powerless and an increasing sense of panic grew within me that wanted very much to get away from there and then the scene was replaced by a vision of you, smiling to me like a star in the night; like a safe harbor for my heart amidst all that darkness, beautiful life amidst all this death.
You know, I have never seen a vision of you in a dream like this before, my love - you were well, so very well.
Religious tolerance and an understanding of differences - harmony across all honorable religions of the world - a better, kinder, brighter, nobler world for all men, women and children of our shared humanity - the things of our peace - a home away from Home for all of our one family of nations - these are the things I want to build with you, my love, and this dream speaks to me of the vital importance of not remaining silent - of not allowing those tyrannies that creep into the life of our peoples to take root and mature in the soil of our nations and of evil things to persist in the soul of each our endeavors of Country - because their fruits are not the fruits that our LORD intends from our native belongings to each other, as one human being to another human being - born upon this world of common places and common things and called upon by each our life to tread upon different paths of the one common belonging to life; being by our loneliness called by our longing for God and for Country to arrive by our togetherness, as a scale of wholes upon greater wholes, at a one common destiny - a one whole one where in between the limitless economy of our wholes are those distinctly personal spaces where we find out who we are as each ourselves, but all the rest, my love, is a one timeless, seamless friendship in and with God and each other in God - ascended nations, my love, divinely perfected from our understanding of an imperfect peace.
When I go to our local mall, I am always drawn to the ice skating rink, you know. I see you there, my love, giggling with your friends and I dream of my hope with you of one day being able to share the experience of the ice with you, my bestest, most purrritiest, most cutsiest of friends, in a setting that far outstrips the vague colors of the dreams we are able to dream in this present time. There are colors that are not yet even present in and to this world, my love, for the entire spectrum of life is not yet reflected here and so the experience of living is infinitely dulled, for all of us, suffering humanity, who are present herewith, because present here with us is the great lie of sin and the enveloping darkness that evil things create from it and with it.
Out of all of this I have fashioned a vision for my, our - Philippines, my love - for you share it with me as well, the eternal Philippines - one dream from among all of that dreaming of Country that must now finally begin to awake in my nation and in all of our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
I can not emphasize enough the consequences - a regret that shall be felt by all nations - of any failure to ascend with the ascent of the wholes. For War shall sift through our nations like wheat and our one whole planet is at stake. But peace will prosper the people, repair our broken world and bring rest and rejuvenation to our wounded nations.
We will begin to flesh out the path that shall guide my, well - our people - with you (and indeed, all the true scions of humanity belong to the one family - the one Covenant family of nations) to the necessary and meaningful peace and the vision of our eternal Philippines, my love - indeed, there is so much to do, so much to do - and from here we shall extend our hope and assistance (as far are we could and as much as we are able) to all peoples of good will who shall ever need it while time is yet a flow and our hope yet stays aglow and God-willing, my love, while our LORD still yet allows it.
Yesterday, my love, was Hermeowne's birthday - I know it's misspelled, my darlingest dear, and mispronounced or its it really? And yes, I took her name to prayer with us, yesterday.
I love you, my love. I have to go for now.
Always to always,
Pusing
Monday, April 13, 2009
20090413
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
The holy deacon, St. Lawrence, has always been present in my life, you know, my love. It seems mysterious to me how there are things in my life that have always seem to have been there and when these things do become significant in my awareness, I also become aware of their timeless natures.
I have known the life of St. Lawrence for quite a time now having learned it through the course of my own business of living and of seeking God. His life, I have always known, left an indelible sign in my own life but I have never felt an upsurging of love for this holy deacon until now when it seems to me that the significance of my timeless friendship with St. Lawrence shall now find its own way into the present time that I am purposed to inhabit. Indeed, in all things, my love, but most especially in the timeless friendships that we all share together with each other, love creates, love guides, love commands, love blesses and sanctifies, and then love fulfills.
The diaconate of Holy Mother Church, effectively the other arm of the Bishops of Christ, is in need of an enabling definition for if faith is the primary province of the priesthood, hope is the primary province of the diaconate and this hope, this common human hope, is the responsibility of the peace of Jesus Christ which is the charism of the one Solidarity as a sacred trust and a civic duty that we keep with each other in Jesus Christ.
I have been contemplating the crossroads along the Path leading out of the Council of our Lady, the Immaculate Conception, one way leading to the First Magnitude Contemplative Order of our Lady, the Mother of Suffering Humanity and the other way to the First Magnitude Order of the Peace of Jesus Christ which is an itinerant ministry of the witness of Jesus Christ accomplished through loving service to all of suffering humanity as directed by the needs of the Council and sustained in God's good graces by its twin Contemplative Order (Our Lady, Mother of Suffering Humanity) must within and among its ranks offer a way into Holy Orders and the diaconate of our Lord, Jesus Christ and the Company of Saint Lawrence the Deacon.
The enabling of the diaconate of Christ as a distinct and functional arm of our holy Bishophic is, I am further convinced, essential in the further building up not only of our Holy Mother Church and the re-evangelization that must take place from within our own ranks but also of the great promise of the unity of all Blessed Christendom, if not yet in form as a singular Tradition then in purpose as one liturgy of life. All of this towards a better, kinder, brighter, nobler place for all of the generations of the life of our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
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In the context of the one peace: The piracy in Somalia can not be addressed by military means alone - it is not the hostility of the Somali state per se which is the primary intent of this act as a whole - it is a void of peace and the lack of the rule of law and strength of order that results from the persistent divisions from within that beleaguered nation itself - it is the necessity of human governance of the responsible state arising from either lack of will or definition of Country that is the actual root of the problem.
Therefore, the law of the sea that govern the surrounding areas must first adapt through juridical measures bound by moral strictures that proactively identify, isolate and address this void of the peace - as a planetary responsibility and therefore, a matter for our United Nations.
The nations within the responsible continental and regional wholes must work together with the lawful elements of the Somali nation to encourage, enable and enact in the will and reason of their nation, a purpose of state.
All of this while the military of those responsible endeavors of Country defend the sea lanes that allow for trade between our common markets to exist as a common good not just of one nation but of all our nations.
For what war does to one, war does to all.
---<--@
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
April 15 is Emz' birthday.
The holy deacon, St. Lawrence, has always been present in my life, you know, my love. It seems mysterious to me how there are things in my life that have always seem to have been there and when these things do become significant in my awareness, I also become aware of their timeless natures.
I have known the life of St. Lawrence for quite a time now having learned it through the course of my own business of living and of seeking God. His life, I have always known, left an indelible sign in my own life but I have never felt an upsurging of love for this holy deacon until now when it seems to me that the significance of my timeless friendship with St. Lawrence shall now find its own way into the present time that I am purposed to inhabit. Indeed, in all things, my love, but most especially in the timeless friendships that we all share together with each other, love creates, love guides, love commands, love blesses and sanctifies, and then love fulfills.
The diaconate of Holy Mother Church, effectively the other arm of the Bishops of Christ, is in need of an enabling definition for if faith is the primary province of the priesthood, hope is the primary province of the diaconate and this hope, this common human hope, is the responsibility of the peace of Jesus Christ which is the charism of the one Solidarity as a sacred trust and a civic duty that we keep with each other in Jesus Christ.
I have been contemplating the crossroads along the Path leading out of the Council of our Lady, the Immaculate Conception, one way leading to the First Magnitude Contemplative Order of our Lady, the Mother of Suffering Humanity and the other way to the First Magnitude Order of the Peace of Jesus Christ which is an itinerant ministry of the witness of Jesus Christ accomplished through loving service to all of suffering humanity as directed by the needs of the Council and sustained in God's good graces by its twin Contemplative Order (Our Lady, Mother of Suffering Humanity) must within and among its ranks offer a way into Holy Orders and the diaconate of our Lord, Jesus Christ and the Company of Saint Lawrence the Deacon.
The enabling of the diaconate of Christ as a distinct and functional arm of our holy Bishophic is, I am further convinced, essential in the further building up not only of our Holy Mother Church and the re-evangelization that must take place from within our own ranks but also of the great promise of the unity of all Blessed Christendom, if not yet in form as a singular Tradition then in purpose as one liturgy of life. All of this towards a better, kinder, brighter, nobler place for all of the generations of the life of our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
---<--@
In the context of the one peace: The piracy in Somalia can not be addressed by military means alone - it is not the hostility of the Somali state per se which is the primary intent of this act as a whole - it is a void of peace and the lack of the rule of law and strength of order that results from the persistent divisions from within that beleaguered nation itself - it is the necessity of human governance of the responsible state arising from either lack of will or definition of Country that is the actual root of the problem.
Therefore, the law of the sea that govern the surrounding areas must first adapt through juridical measures bound by moral strictures that proactively identify, isolate and address this void of the peace - as a planetary responsibility and therefore, a matter for our United Nations.
The nations within the responsible continental and regional wholes must work together with the lawful elements of the Somali nation to encourage, enable and enact in the will and reason of their nation, a purpose of state.
All of this while the military of those responsible endeavors of Country defend the sea lanes that allow for trade between our common markets to exist as a common good not just of one nation but of all our nations.
For what war does to one, war does to all.
---<--@
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
April 15 is Emz' birthday.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
20090412
Dear darlingest Miyang,
Today is Easter Sunday 2009, my love and I kid you not, my darlingest dear, its the best Easter Sunday in my life by far.
I started this Lenten journey intending to make regular posts about the theme of the Lenten season but that did not happen. Instead, I did one posting on Human Suffering with the next related post following today, Easter day.
Because of this, over the past 40 days, I have accumulated a backlog of posts, the gist of which I have written here with you, my love. We still need to look over them and make them ready for posting on our main blog, my Miyang, and we shall be doing plenty of that over the coming days.
There is so much trouble in our world today, my love, which is why I refrain from immersing myself in the turbulent and often times murky waters of worldly events. I do not look, or should I say, I must not at news sources in the media more than what Providence dictates and what the love in my heart commands.
I am aware of the substance of these things and they have their real effects on me.
Because I am a thoughtful soul, my love, and a heart that likes to think, this is how God created me and a particular heart I am, the love in my longing is becoming alive to the suffering of other hearts, whether they suffer knowingly or unknowingly, alone or with others, near or far in places in our souls where neither time nor distance rule. You, my darlingest Annelies Marie, know of my heart for the concerns of your own heart and that of mine, I know, are of one and the same hope.
This world is far too small, the gossamer veil of time far too near, for our souls not to touch, my love, and too many souls are in despair, the everliving light in their being - meant to shine as stars alive to themselves - dimmed by so much of the prevailing darkness.
There is so much common human need in our world at present, my darlingest dear, and among this need exists so much hope, that amidst all of these troubles, I feel a sense of wonder; there is a profound thirst for good things and I know that our LORD has not forsaken us - water shall not destroy this world a second time - it shall cause it to be saved from the conflagration of War.
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Some Thoughts, my love:
Arcs in the Sky - we shall encourage each of our precious Starshine, especially those affected by the curse of War, to make a record of their life's progress and this record shall be the province of their kindred grace of the First Magnitude, in the one Solidarity in particular, in all of blessed Christendom in general, and among all of our Abrahamic brethren and sisters as well as all the honorable religions of Mankind at large, whose responsibility it is to discern from their particular experiences, the hope that must remain the responsibility of our peace with each other.
It will be a diary much like your one, my darlingest dear, but one intended by grace of God as well as by deliberate force of our collective free will, to encapsulate for those hearts aware of other hearts, the many needs that go every day and every moment unreported, common needs that paint for our souls a portrait of the lives of those nameless promises whose own yearning for life we ignore at our own peril.
OK, I guess just that one thought in the singular form for today, my darlingest dear.
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I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Today is Easter Sunday 2009, my love and I kid you not, my darlingest dear, its the best Easter Sunday in my life by far.
I started this Lenten journey intending to make regular posts about the theme of the Lenten season but that did not happen. Instead, I did one posting on Human Suffering with the next related post following today, Easter day.
Because of this, over the past 40 days, I have accumulated a backlog of posts, the gist of which I have written here with you, my love. We still need to look over them and make them ready for posting on our main blog, my Miyang, and we shall be doing plenty of that over the coming days.
There is so much trouble in our world today, my love, which is why I refrain from immersing myself in the turbulent and often times murky waters of worldly events. I do not look, or should I say, I must not at news sources in the media more than what Providence dictates and what the love in my heart commands.
I am aware of the substance of these things and they have their real effects on me.
Because I am a thoughtful soul, my love, and a heart that likes to think, this is how God created me and a particular heart I am, the love in my longing is becoming alive to the suffering of other hearts, whether they suffer knowingly or unknowingly, alone or with others, near or far in places in our souls where neither time nor distance rule. You, my darlingest Annelies Marie, know of my heart for the concerns of your own heart and that of mine, I know, are of one and the same hope.
This world is far too small, the gossamer veil of time far too near, for our souls not to touch, my love, and too many souls are in despair, the everliving light in their being - meant to shine as stars alive to themselves - dimmed by so much of the prevailing darkness.
There is so much common human need in our world at present, my darlingest dear, and among this need exists so much hope, that amidst all of these troubles, I feel a sense of wonder; there is a profound thirst for good things and I know that our LORD has not forsaken us - water shall not destroy this world a second time - it shall cause it to be saved from the conflagration of War.
---<--@
Some Thoughts, my love:
Arcs in the Sky - we shall encourage each of our precious Starshine, especially those affected by the curse of War, to make a record of their life's progress and this record shall be the province of their kindred grace of the First Magnitude, in the one Solidarity in particular, in all of blessed Christendom in general, and among all of our Abrahamic brethren and sisters as well as all the honorable religions of Mankind at large, whose responsibility it is to discern from their particular experiences, the hope that must remain the responsibility of our peace with each other.
It will be a diary much like your one, my darlingest dear, but one intended by grace of God as well as by deliberate force of our collective free will, to encapsulate for those hearts aware of other hearts, the many needs that go every day and every moment unreported, common needs that paint for our souls a portrait of the lives of those nameless promises whose own yearning for life we ignore at our own peril.
OK, I guess just that one thought in the singular form for today, my darlingest dear.
---<--@
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
20090407
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
You know, our LORD daily provides me with things that seem to confirm the movements of His will in my little life, my love. Those things that seem to overwhelm me with the force of their reality, that our LORD is truly, the one God of all creation and that upon our God's glory rests the hope of all living life.
I never seem to be bereft of reasons not to seek, love and serve our LORD God, the one triune Perfection (of Christian revelation) and the one God of my heart and to bless His Holy Name. For in spite of all the things that are dark in this world, there is indeed hope in the reality of our LORD.
All Christian revelation sprung from the wondrous Gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ, my love, is a marvelous thing and a Divine work of human hope. I can understand why evangelical Christians are eager to profess these shining truths, most especially - and I earnestly hope - those that are able to withstand the limits of our differences, of our common Christian faith. And they should, indeed, we all should.
However, faith and hope are two different things and though they both profess in substance to a witness of truths unseen, to confuse them is not profitable in the labors for which the ultimate purpose of Salvation history is founded upon which is the complete and absolute liberation of the one whole totality of human experience from all evil and this accomplished through the redemption of Mankind from the tyranny of sin: Peace to all men of good will.
The past is prologue to the things we are asked by God to build today and we are now come to a point in exile time where war among us shall no longer do, my love. It is time to speak to needful Mankind, our hope.
I we can not learn to trust in the good things we can see, we will never be able to follow the will of our unseen LORD Who is the one Light of our nations, changeless and eternal. And it is now, my love, in this midnight dark, perceived by those who are called to the quickening of the times, that our nations are in need of this Light, this one Light, this one peace.
My native Philippines, in much need of repair, the same with the many nations of our needful world, my love, must be able to follow this one Light eastward, to the morning of the new. It is the only way out of this midnight dark. There is so much to do for Country and it shall not be easy but these are things worth doing, and they are no longer impossible where we to apply ourselves to the promise to which we are called, my beloved compatriots - friends, one and all.
What am I, in the context of all of this, sweeping motion, my love, what am I...? I am troubled, a wretch, yet I am also eager for what good I know will come for my native Philippines and for all the good nations of our needful Mankind; bereft of peace, lacking in truth, badly broken and near exhausted by the ravages of war but never without hope, my love, hope in our shared humanity and this, our common hope ennobles me, making me more human in myself and less of what I am not and never was intended to be.
My dear Filipinos, all of you who love this, our one nation of the Filipinos, young, old, rich, poor, middle class, and all past into present hope - let us understand, here and now, that there never was any real divide between our one people, there can never be two eternal Philippines for we, from least to greatest, are but one nation spread across all the generations of Country - let us each move to complete in our hearts our remembrances of the peace, one with another, for we have much to do to secure for ourselves and our posterity the real, shining promise of this great land of the morning, for this great land of the morning, my friends, it shall appear. So believe in it, again - together.
And let us apply ourselves to this common hope of better, kinder and nobler things.
I have to go for now, my darlingest dear.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
You know, our LORD daily provides me with things that seem to confirm the movements of His will in my little life, my love. Those things that seem to overwhelm me with the force of their reality, that our LORD is truly, the one God of all creation and that upon our God's glory rests the hope of all living life.
I never seem to be bereft of reasons not to seek, love and serve our LORD God, the one triune Perfection (of Christian revelation) and the one God of my heart and to bless His Holy Name. For in spite of all the things that are dark in this world, there is indeed hope in the reality of our LORD.
All Christian revelation sprung from the wondrous Gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ, my love, is a marvelous thing and a Divine work of human hope. I can understand why evangelical Christians are eager to profess these shining truths, most especially - and I earnestly hope - those that are able to withstand the limits of our differences, of our common Christian faith. And they should, indeed, we all should.
However, faith and hope are two different things and though they both profess in substance to a witness of truths unseen, to confuse them is not profitable in the labors for which the ultimate purpose of Salvation history is founded upon which is the complete and absolute liberation of the one whole totality of human experience from all evil and this accomplished through the redemption of Mankind from the tyranny of sin: Peace to all men of good will.
The past is prologue to the things we are asked by God to build today and we are now come to a point in exile time where war among us shall no longer do, my love. It is time to speak to needful Mankind, our hope.
I we can not learn to trust in the good things we can see, we will never be able to follow the will of our unseen LORD Who is the one Light of our nations, changeless and eternal. And it is now, my love, in this midnight dark, perceived by those who are called to the quickening of the times, that our nations are in need of this Light, this one Light, this one peace.
My native Philippines, in much need of repair, the same with the many nations of our needful world, my love, must be able to follow this one Light eastward, to the morning of the new. It is the only way out of this midnight dark. There is so much to do for Country and it shall not be easy but these are things worth doing, and they are no longer impossible where we to apply ourselves to the promise to which we are called, my beloved compatriots - friends, one and all.
What am I, in the context of all of this, sweeping motion, my love, what am I...? I am troubled, a wretch, yet I am also eager for what good I know will come for my native Philippines and for all the good nations of our needful Mankind; bereft of peace, lacking in truth, badly broken and near exhausted by the ravages of war but never without hope, my love, hope in our shared humanity and this, our common hope ennobles me, making me more human in myself and less of what I am not and never was intended to be.
My dear Filipinos, all of you who love this, our one nation of the Filipinos, young, old, rich, poor, middle class, and all past into present hope - let us understand, here and now, that there never was any real divide between our one people, there can never be two eternal Philippines for we, from least to greatest, are but one nation spread across all the generations of Country - let us each move to complete in our hearts our remembrances of the peace, one with another, for we have much to do to secure for ourselves and our posterity the real, shining promise of this great land of the morning, for this great land of the morning, my friends, it shall appear. So believe in it, again - together.
And let us apply ourselves to this common hope of better, kinder and nobler things.
I have to go for now, my darlingest dear.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Monday, April 6, 2009
20090406
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
Time. Terrain. Treasure. These are negotiable things. For all of these are created things made for the good of Mankind insomuch as if this good, the sovereign good of our nations, is the cause by which the nobility of those human souls who through the bearing of arms is by their struggle defined, then their victory is thus by way of this peace assured so that all those battles ahead would not seem to be an endless road.
For even if these particular causes, if only through peculiar human frailty, differ, the soul of the noble soldier is constant in its seeking for the peace and therefore, knoweth that the road to every true victory (and the unfolding of all human hope) does in exile time converge (into the reality of the present good) and all our battles shall find their end at the final ascent of our nations at the Last Day.
Life is non-negotiable. Because life while we are yet here in exile time belongs to no man; all of sacred life, most especially the life that breathe within each and every human soul, while we are yet here upon this world and before the Last Day, my love, belong to God and to God alone.
Therefore, in terms of the ICRC hostage crisis and in the context of this probationary reality that all truly human and therefore, truly faithful hearts among all of our honorable religions but most especially the Abrahamic faiths must recognize, unless life and the respect for sacred life, most especially human life, is not made the common ground between any two causes, distinct only by their methods though ultimately not by their hope both similarly seeking to respond to certain human needs, war and the evil ambition of war and not peace shall drive its course unto fruition unto the everlasting regret of all. For war is a friend to no one, not even itself.
This is a policy of state where the paradigm of the peace is concerned.
In its present application; should any cause desire peace with our nation then, the release of the hostages - all hostages, not just the two ICRC workers, within the responsible sphere of our endeavor of Country, our one Republic of the Philippines, as a show of good will to the one Filipino nation and as a token to the responsible Philippine state of the prior willingness to broaden the grounds of our common understanding, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God, is indeed, requisite to any proper negotiations that would, in time and even with sacrifice now borne together in trust, shall eventually lead to the convergence of our hopes and peace to our generations.
But should any cause desire war against our shared humanity, seek to deceive our responsible state and to profane the sacred life of our nation, then all our nations shall be mutually inclined to conduct the absolute defense and the noble military march to repair the breach to the one peace.
This is part of the Abrahamic charter; that all honorable religion, most especially our Abrahamic faiths, inclines each of us to become truly human in our selves and therefore, truly part of each other's hope as individual human beings and as individual human nations; a keeper and a friend to each other forever.
Because the peace that we profess is a common destiny and a Home for all our nations and not a desolation of the abomination of war.
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So many other things, my love, but for now, we rest. It's another working week ahead - today is Araw nang Kagitingan.
I love you. Oh, I have another poem for us - it's called, "You Stayed", and it's somewhere here, I already wrote the seeds of it some months back. Gotta find it - it's going to be something I shall post for your birthday this June 12, my darlingest dear.
Always to always,
Pusing
Time. Terrain. Treasure. These are negotiable things. For all of these are created things made for the good of Mankind insomuch as if this good, the sovereign good of our nations, is the cause by which the nobility of those human souls who through the bearing of arms is by their struggle defined, then their victory is thus by way of this peace assured so that all those battles ahead would not seem to be an endless road.
For even if these particular causes, if only through peculiar human frailty, differ, the soul of the noble soldier is constant in its seeking for the peace and therefore, knoweth that the road to every true victory (and the unfolding of all human hope) does in exile time converge (into the reality of the present good) and all our battles shall find their end at the final ascent of our nations at the Last Day.
Life is non-negotiable. Because life while we are yet here in exile time belongs to no man; all of sacred life, most especially the life that breathe within each and every human soul, while we are yet here upon this world and before the Last Day, my love, belong to God and to God alone.
Therefore, in terms of the ICRC hostage crisis and in the context of this probationary reality that all truly human and therefore, truly faithful hearts among all of our honorable religions but most especially the Abrahamic faiths must recognize, unless life and the respect for sacred life, most especially human life, is not made the common ground between any two causes, distinct only by their methods though ultimately not by their hope both similarly seeking to respond to certain human needs, war and the evil ambition of war and not peace shall drive its course unto fruition unto the everlasting regret of all. For war is a friend to no one, not even itself.
This is a policy of state where the paradigm of the peace is concerned.
In its present application; should any cause desire peace with our nation then, the release of the hostages - all hostages, not just the two ICRC workers, within the responsible sphere of our endeavor of Country, our one Republic of the Philippines, as a show of good will to the one Filipino nation and as a token to the responsible Philippine state of the prior willingness to broaden the grounds of our common understanding, under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God, is indeed, requisite to any proper negotiations that would, in time and even with sacrifice now borne together in trust, shall eventually lead to the convergence of our hopes and peace to our generations.
But should any cause desire war against our shared humanity, seek to deceive our responsible state and to profane the sacred life of our nation, then all our nations shall be mutually inclined to conduct the absolute defense and the noble military march to repair the breach to the one peace.
This is part of the Abrahamic charter; that all honorable religion, most especially our Abrahamic faiths, inclines each of us to become truly human in our selves and therefore, truly part of each other's hope as individual human beings and as individual human nations; a keeper and a friend to each other forever.
Because the peace that we profess is a common destiny and a Home for all our nations and not a desolation of the abomination of war.
---<--@
So many other things, my love, but for now, we rest. It's another working week ahead - today is Araw nang Kagitingan.
I love you. Oh, I have another poem for us - it's called, "You Stayed", and it's somewhere here, I already wrote the seeds of it some months back. Gotta find it - it's going to be something I shall post for your birthday this June 12, my darlingest dear.
Always to always,
Pusing
Sunday, April 5, 2009
20090405
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
I have some things to work on, my love - most definitely. But I shall work on them later on - not here at this Internet bar.
We still have things about Women, the Path, Twilight Pawprints, Humor and Jocularity and its limits -because, we must understand that to exceed humor is to meanness brought about by anything from ignorance, recklessness or malice depending on its motive in the heart but a lack of humor is plain uncharitable. We shall also deal with civic duty, citizenship with fidelity and the Abrahamic charter.
Charity covereth a multitude of sins - because hope that is loving is also by virtue, forbearing.
A human person who is without virtue is not a person aware of its humanity. Because we are all made to be good, and this is the truth, yet because of the nature of these times, there is always the potential for evil but the good and the evil, these are two separate and distinct things in the life of a human being which is both a reason for hope and a cause to despair. Therefore, however way we must choose, we must each choose life and choose this path absolutely. For all honorable religion, by act of its virtue and the art of its grace, allows us to choose life together as a common destiny.
Oh, also, we shall also work on our economic road map which includes both the positive building up of our common market as well as the ability as a whole to go toe to toe against the negative impacts of false economies.
The fate of animals, most especially our pets as well, is another thing - and we shall answer this especially for our precious Starshine. And it is a good thing, too, for it is also a matter of hope and not despair.
There are other things, my love, I can know that they are there but I really can not bring them forward to my awareness at the moment. And so, we shall expound on those things we can expound on for now - but later on.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
I have some things to work on, my love - most definitely. But I shall work on them later on - not here at this Internet bar.
We still have things about Women, the Path, Twilight Pawprints, Humor and Jocularity and its limits -because, we must understand that to exceed humor is to meanness brought about by anything from ignorance, recklessness or malice depending on its motive in the heart but a lack of humor is plain uncharitable. We shall also deal with civic duty, citizenship with fidelity and the Abrahamic charter.
Charity covereth a multitude of sins - because hope that is loving is also by virtue, forbearing.
A human person who is without virtue is not a person aware of its humanity. Because we are all made to be good, and this is the truth, yet because of the nature of these times, there is always the potential for evil but the good and the evil, these are two separate and distinct things in the life of a human being which is both a reason for hope and a cause to despair. Therefore, however way we must choose, we must each choose life and choose this path absolutely. For all honorable religion, by act of its virtue and the art of its grace, allows us to choose life together as a common destiny.
Oh, also, we shall also work on our economic road map which includes both the positive building up of our common market as well as the ability as a whole to go toe to toe against the negative impacts of false economies.
The fate of animals, most especially our pets as well, is another thing - and we shall answer this especially for our precious Starshine. And it is a good thing, too, for it is also a matter of hope and not despair.
There are other things, my love, I can know that they are there but I really can not bring them forward to my awareness at the moment. And so, we shall expound on those things we can expound on for now - but later on.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
Saturday, April 4, 2009
20090404
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
Among many things that today fills my heart, my darlingest, is the sweet reality of you. I think I shall stay with you in our hearts together for a while, my dear darlingest Miyang.
It's so easy to lose one's self in the noise of all our human occupation, in the haste and the bustle of the constant activity of our hopes together and in the near endless labor of those original ideals that we must responsibly strive for upon this world. There is therefore, always a constant risk of being isolated from these, our relationships together, and to be lost in the labors of this necessary life.
Yet where there is a coming home to love, and in this instance, our love, my loveliest love, I feel safe as anyone would who is in the company of friends.
And so with smiles beaming like the sunshine that I receive from you, my darlingest, from within - let this weekend begin. Hey, that rhymes! I'm a poet and didn't even know it (./smile).
It's going to be a great Saturday and then on to Palm Sunday, and a most meaningful Holy Week leading up to a most glorious Easter. I look forward to the many activities ahead, most especially the Easter vigil at our local church this next Saturday night.
I love you, my dear darlingest Miyang Marie.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
I can no longer seem to bear buying those pirated dvd's, my love. I just realized this just now when I tried to buy some from a local mall not far from here. I think of all of the people who are victimized by it, including souls who are near and dear to my own heart, and am convinced that we must somehow take a bite against piracy but not the people, my love - not the people.
We have to provide some kind of livelihood to those whose bread and butter depend on these false things that undercut the real economy of things produced by the honest labors of common Country life.
I am at a relatively expensive Internet bar so I really must paraphrase my thoughts, my love. But the gist of it all is this - we shall have to provide a livelihood for the people we should, by the mandate of heaven, desire to help and ease them out of things false and of things dark and in so doing, reduce the incidence of despair, crime and poverty from the life of our nation.
My local municipality of which name I shall for now withhold is at the moment striving towards citihood - I support this completely. If we should acquire an Abrahamic charter and found upon this place, the model of a New Cordova, it would really bode well for the future of this, my - our hometown, for my place is your place as well, my darlingest dear.
Within this place, we shall devote time towards building a multimedia publishing firm, "Twilight Pawprints", that will handle the copyright to the works that we will further produce which are things of the nature that motivate, inform, instruct and inspire hearts towards the cause of the one peace. Starshine and Truelight, instruments of the one Solidarity, are also publications that shall find their publishing genesis here.
I realize enough not to exploit human need and have never sought to profit from my labors to obtain to the one peace and I never will for my definition of profit might not be as some people might think. But there are real people who are in real need and where charity commands that material forces are also to be ably utilized to alleviate the plight of the nameless, I shall respond.
This firm will then help ease out and transition those people affected by the surge of those false economies (of which human trafficking is the worst beast of all) and integrate them completely into the real economies, seen as well as unseen, that build and enrich our markets, from local, national and international and enable our people to fully develop their own sense of being human, both in spirit as well as in form; utilizing both immaterial as well as material resources available to us as one nation among a family of nations.
We will implement all of the adaptations necessary to transition our society to the paradigm of the one peace from this city. How to begin? I can not see that far yet, my love. But this path feels right. I have always felt differently when I am here in my own hometown and I shall trust this feeling - and to prayer, of course, and to a constant meditation of these things.
Is it difficult? Yes, darn near impossible. But since this is now a labor of hope and nevermore one of tears, I feel it is worth every effort.
---<--@
Among many things that today fills my heart, my darlingest, is the sweet reality of you. I think I shall stay with you in our hearts together for a while, my dear darlingest Miyang.
It's so easy to lose one's self in the noise of all our human occupation, in the haste and the bustle of the constant activity of our hopes together and in the near endless labor of those original ideals that we must responsibly strive for upon this world. There is therefore, always a constant risk of being isolated from these, our relationships together, and to be lost in the labors of this necessary life.
Yet where there is a coming home to love, and in this instance, our love, my loveliest love, I feel safe as anyone would who is in the company of friends.
And so with smiles beaming like the sunshine that I receive from you, my darlingest, from within - let this weekend begin. Hey, that rhymes! I'm a poet and didn't even know it (./smile).
It's going to be a great Saturday and then on to Palm Sunday, and a most meaningful Holy Week leading up to a most glorious Easter. I look forward to the many activities ahead, most especially the Easter vigil at our local church this next Saturday night.
I love you, my dear darlingest Miyang Marie.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
I can no longer seem to bear buying those pirated dvd's, my love. I just realized this just now when I tried to buy some from a local mall not far from here. I think of all of the people who are victimized by it, including souls who are near and dear to my own heart, and am convinced that we must somehow take a bite against piracy but not the people, my love - not the people.
We have to provide some kind of livelihood to those whose bread and butter depend on these false things that undercut the real economy of things produced by the honest labors of common Country life.
I am at a relatively expensive Internet bar so I really must paraphrase my thoughts, my love. But the gist of it all is this - we shall have to provide a livelihood for the people we should, by the mandate of heaven, desire to help and ease them out of things false and of things dark and in so doing, reduce the incidence of despair, crime and poverty from the life of our nation.
My local municipality of which name I shall for now withhold is at the moment striving towards citihood - I support this completely. If we should acquire an Abrahamic charter and found upon this place, the model of a New Cordova, it would really bode well for the future of this, my - our hometown, for my place is your place as well, my darlingest dear.
Within this place, we shall devote time towards building a multimedia publishing firm, "Twilight Pawprints", that will handle the copyright to the works that we will further produce which are things of the nature that motivate, inform, instruct and inspire hearts towards the cause of the one peace. Starshine and Truelight, instruments of the one Solidarity, are also publications that shall find their publishing genesis here.
I realize enough not to exploit human need and have never sought to profit from my labors to obtain to the one peace and I never will for my definition of profit might not be as some people might think. But there are real people who are in real need and where charity commands that material forces are also to be ably utilized to alleviate the plight of the nameless, I shall respond.
This firm will then help ease out and transition those people affected by the surge of those false economies (of which human trafficking is the worst beast of all) and integrate them completely into the real economies, seen as well as unseen, that build and enrich our markets, from local, national and international and enable our people to fully develop their own sense of being human, both in spirit as well as in form; utilizing both immaterial as well as material resources available to us as one nation among a family of nations.
We will implement all of the adaptations necessary to transition our society to the paradigm of the one peace from this city. How to begin? I can not see that far yet, my love. But this path feels right. I have always felt differently when I am here in my own hometown and I shall trust this feeling - and to prayer, of course, and to a constant meditation of these things.
Is it difficult? Yes, darn near impossible. But since this is now a labor of hope and nevermore one of tears, I feel it is worth every effort.
---<--@
Friday, April 3, 2009
20090403
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
Word is from news reports today that our Mary Jean Lacaba, one of the three kidnapped ICRC workers, have been returned to us, bless God, my love. Now his family may breathe the long sigh of relief and give thanks to God and to all who have contributed to her safe return. Thanks be to our LORD, thanks be to our God!
Let us now direct our prayer hearts and the attention of our good will to the remaining two, my darlingest dear. Let us desire in the depths of our souls, the swift release of Andreas Notter and Eugenio Vagni to their aggrieved families and to their respective nations so anxious for their safe return.
---<--@
The Path
In the same way that a tree upon our world is possessed of life, so are we.
In the same way there is a breathing that breathes in the birds in the sky, in the animals upon the land, and in the fishes in the sea, so are we likewise possessed by the living that make us all peers to sacred life.
And as all thing alive in all of visible creation are all those things immersed in those timeless and unseen waters of an everlasting substance, so are we.
But much more than those green things that grow and greater still than the animals that fill our world with motion, we are because to our reason is granted the names and the knowledge of all these things and the faith to apply ourselves to the keeping of God's own creative ideal in each our lives that preserves our LORD's peace upon the earth and make us as common servants to the one common Creator, and being equal in this dignity of willing service to God and to God's creation therefore, friends to each other.
Where we are called as human beings to aspire to bring this hope of one Peace unto our nations and of common good will unto all sacred life, we are made to be companions to each other in God and in Country as the numberless Stars of the one firmament.
In the one Solidarity, this is the path of the Preservator.
---<--@
This Sunday is Palm Sunday, my love. I bought an Anawim Way from St. Paul's because I am keen on contemplating the substance of Holy Week through to Easter.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
I just saw a news conference at Camp Crame about the ICRC hostage crisis. It is a good thing to know that our government is working hard to resolve the crisis. I have always thought that our SND is a trustworthy and capable Filipino patriot and to see him there with our DILG chief as well as general officers representing our AFP and PNP is a very good thing, because this along with our prayers as a people together is a sure step towards attaining peace in our Republic.
Our Republic is not a thing, it is not something to be grasped by human hands but a motion in time, something to be remembered for always in moments appreciated by our heart's timeless embrace. Country is a common term for a Republic which in the unseen realm of absolutes is a quite specific servant to the nations of Mankind.
All endeavors of Country, being a Republic or otherwise, exist in eternity to align the will of the all of Mankind and bind together the one lineage of the emerging generations of our one human race through the vast spread of exile time, marching our nations ever closer together, as Liberty shepherding the good with the good, and all unto the good at the gathering at the Last Day.
What matters is that life yield what purpose in creation life was in time begun, most especially all of human life upon which the hopes of all of lower creation is vested and the glory of our LORD in all of the visible universe promised in the unfolding dream of each and every one of our nations destined from all eternity to be revealed by our collective ascent borne upon eagle wings of God's own grace, to the one Peace of our one common Creator.
Virtue is currency and this is such that it only becomes visible to most where it matter the most, where virtue is in time lacking and reality seems arid, the truth is everywhere scarce.
But there are yet good people in our government, I do firmly believe. And all our classes, rich, middle or poor, are equally salted by God with the leaven of the virtues that shall one day raise unto the Almighty, the acceptable fruits of each our own particular endeavor of Country, fruits demanded by God, consisting of things true and good for the one family of the nations Mankind and thus, made sweet to the LORD of all our nations for all our ages unto the golden dawning of God's own eternity.
I believe we all have a part to play at a time, times and half a time toward the building of this hope for peace and vision of prosperity for our one whole Filipino nation, as a gift of good things and a blessing for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Because, my love, war no longer applies here upon our planet Annelies in the universe within our heart of hearts.
---<--@
Word is from news reports today that our Mary Jean Lacaba, one of the three kidnapped ICRC workers, have been returned to us, bless God, my love. Now his family may breathe the long sigh of relief and give thanks to God and to all who have contributed to her safe return. Thanks be to our LORD, thanks be to our God!
Let us now direct our prayer hearts and the attention of our good will to the remaining two, my darlingest dear. Let us desire in the depths of our souls, the swift release of Andreas Notter and Eugenio Vagni to their aggrieved families and to their respective nations so anxious for their safe return.
---<--@
The Path
In the same way that a tree upon our world is possessed of life, so are we.
In the same way there is a breathing that breathes in the birds in the sky, in the animals upon the land, and in the fishes in the sea, so are we likewise possessed by the living that make us all peers to sacred life.
And as all thing alive in all of visible creation are all those things immersed in those timeless and unseen waters of an everlasting substance, so are we.
But much more than those green things that grow and greater still than the animals that fill our world with motion, we are because to our reason is granted the names and the knowledge of all these things and the faith to apply ourselves to the keeping of God's own creative ideal in each our lives that preserves our LORD's peace upon the earth and make us as common servants to the one common Creator, and being equal in this dignity of willing service to God and to God's creation therefore, friends to each other.
Where we are called as human beings to aspire to bring this hope of one Peace unto our nations and of common good will unto all sacred life, we are made to be companions to each other in God and in Country as the numberless Stars of the one firmament.
In the one Solidarity, this is the path of the Preservator.
---<--@
This Sunday is Palm Sunday, my love. I bought an Anawim Way from St. Paul's because I am keen on contemplating the substance of Holy Week through to Easter.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
I just saw a news conference at Camp Crame about the ICRC hostage crisis. It is a good thing to know that our government is working hard to resolve the crisis. I have always thought that our SND is a trustworthy and capable Filipino patriot and to see him there with our DILG chief as well as general officers representing our AFP and PNP is a very good thing, because this along with our prayers as a people together is a sure step towards attaining peace in our Republic.
Our Republic is not a thing, it is not something to be grasped by human hands but a motion in time, something to be remembered for always in moments appreciated by our heart's timeless embrace. Country is a common term for a Republic which in the unseen realm of absolutes is a quite specific servant to the nations of Mankind.
All endeavors of Country, being a Republic or otherwise, exist in eternity to align the will of the all of Mankind and bind together the one lineage of the emerging generations of our one human race through the vast spread of exile time, marching our nations ever closer together, as Liberty shepherding the good with the good, and all unto the good at the gathering at the Last Day.
What matters is that life yield what purpose in creation life was in time begun, most especially all of human life upon which the hopes of all of lower creation is vested and the glory of our LORD in all of the visible universe promised in the unfolding dream of each and every one of our nations destined from all eternity to be revealed by our collective ascent borne upon eagle wings of God's own grace, to the one Peace of our one common Creator.
Virtue is currency and this is such that it only becomes visible to most where it matter the most, where virtue is in time lacking and reality seems arid, the truth is everywhere scarce.
But there are yet good people in our government, I do firmly believe. And all our classes, rich, middle or poor, are equally salted by God with the leaven of the virtues that shall one day raise unto the Almighty, the acceptable fruits of each our own particular endeavor of Country, fruits demanded by God, consisting of things true and good for the one family of the nations Mankind and thus, made sweet to the LORD of all our nations for all our ages unto the golden dawning of God's own eternity.
I believe we all have a part to play at a time, times and half a time toward the building of this hope for peace and vision of prosperity for our one whole Filipino nation, as a gift of good things and a blessing for all of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.
Let us together build a home for our children, of the generations of life, a place of peace where virtue dwells and truth reigns in the hearts of those who are made kindred by grace of God through Country so that those who are called by light of faith to be free become free indeed and those who are caused by their own merits upon the earth to become become rich become rich indeed; all things being one in our hope in the vision of our eternal Philippines.
Because, my love, war no longer applies here upon our planet Annelies in the universe within our heart of hearts.
---<--@
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
20090401
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
I remember Father Tullo Favalli, my love, a missionary of Holy Mother Church and a worker of good things for the common people. How can I not, for because of his compassion for humanity and his love for our God, he was murdered and that hope is one that can never be forgot.
Because for as long as there is evil in this world and for as long as there exists a need for good, this, our hope, springs eternal.
It is the hope of the holy innocents, taken from amidst all of our nations, that continually feed the daring in Mankind to strive for better, kinder and nobler things; things that work to advance the light of human civilization amidst a world that is over run by so much darkness.
Indeed, all of the harm that evil things have sought to inflict upon the good ultimately returns a thousandfold upon their heads. But why, in this day and age, should the good of this world ever again be like sheep to the slaughter? Let those who do not gather with us know that we are come to an understanding of the peace. Let those who scatter realize that what war does to one, war does to all.
Now, my beloved Country is again faced by a crisis that brings the memory of our holy innocents into my mind, my darlingest dear, and I am sure, into the minds of as many good people around the world who are alive to the keeping of their hope.
Those leaders who willingly choose to be led by the good in good things but most especially those leaders who allow themselves to be freely subdued by the evil in evil things, understand this Covenant of the LORD that have existed since the founding of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind and begun at the time of the holy partiarch Noah; that our Almighty God requires from each of thee an accounting of the people to the last hairs on their heads.
The ICRC workers and all hostages taken against their will, we say our peace upon them - we will become their hope. We hold those who have taken them responsible before God for their lives and the safety of their being.
We will never forget, my love, we will never forget any and all malicious harm inflicted upon the life of our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind nor shall we abandon our friends.
Let it be known now that were these human beings members of the Red Crescent, Red Crystal or any other foundation or institution of Mankind devoted to the cause of sacred life and to the advancement of good things, it shall be the same unto them because to all of them belong our peace because it is to each other that we shall forever belong: one House with many rooms; one God over all our nations; one peace over and upon the one Covenant family of the nations of Mankind; one promise of an eternal Home shining amidst the timeless universe of our true human habitation, one true destiny of an everlasting realm of new beginnings for the one human race.
---<--@
I am working on a poem for that quite special day for both of us, my darlingest dear, that most special day on the 12th of June: Old Defiant in my Heart.
---<--@
This is a season for building, a time for hope.
I love you, my darlingest dear.
Always to always,
Pusing
I remember Father Tullo Favalli, my love, a missionary of Holy Mother Church and a worker of good things for the common people. How can I not, for because of his compassion for humanity and his love for our God, he was murdered and that hope is one that can never be forgot.
Because for as long as there is evil in this world and for as long as there exists a need for good, this, our hope, springs eternal.
It is the hope of the holy innocents, taken from amidst all of our nations, that continually feed the daring in Mankind to strive for better, kinder and nobler things; things that work to advance the light of human civilization amidst a world that is over run by so much darkness.
Indeed, all of the harm that evil things have sought to inflict upon the good ultimately returns a thousandfold upon their heads. But why, in this day and age, should the good of this world ever again be like sheep to the slaughter? Let those who do not gather with us know that we are come to an understanding of the peace. Let those who scatter realize that what war does to one, war does to all.
Now, my beloved Country is again faced by a crisis that brings the memory of our holy innocents into my mind, my darlingest dear, and I am sure, into the minds of as many good people around the world who are alive to the keeping of their hope.
Those leaders who willingly choose to be led by the good in good things but most especially those leaders who allow themselves to be freely subdued by the evil in evil things, understand this Covenant of the LORD that have existed since the founding of the nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind and begun at the time of the holy partiarch Noah; that our Almighty God requires from each of thee an accounting of the people to the last hairs on their heads.
The ICRC workers and all hostages taken against their will, we say our peace upon them - we will become their hope. We hold those who have taken them responsible before God for their lives and the safety of their being.
We will never forget, my love, we will never forget any and all malicious harm inflicted upon the life of our nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind nor shall we abandon our friends.
Let it be known now that were these human beings members of the Red Crescent, Red Crystal or any other foundation or institution of Mankind devoted to the cause of sacred life and to the advancement of good things, it shall be the same unto them because to all of them belong our peace because it is to each other that we shall forever belong: one House with many rooms; one God over all our nations; one peace over and upon the one Covenant family of the nations of Mankind; one promise of an eternal Home shining amidst the timeless universe of our true human habitation, one true destiny of an everlasting realm of new beginnings for the one human race.
---<--@
I am working on a poem for that quite special day for both of us, my darlingest dear, that most special day on the 12th of June: Old Defiant in my Heart.
---<--@
This is a season for building, a time for hope.
I love you, my darlingest dear.
Always to always,
Pusing
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