Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
Some more thoughts on common human needs, friendships and fundamental human relationships, my darlingest dear:
But if we seek to recognize our common human needs and respond to provide for them, as a duty of religion or as a secular occupation or both, with virtue and creativity, then we stand to gain profit, material and above all spiritual, from our own true belongings with one another in Country and not because we have become less and less of ourselves in exile time but because we have become more and more that original, timeless, ageless image within each of us in God.
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If we learn to recognize and respond to our common human needs and to respond to these needs as human beings one with another, then the fundamental relationship that does exists between each and every one of us is built up into friendships because that way we are looking after the good of one and the other and the one and the other looking after our own good.
And as we build up these friendships together, we build up our unknown earth into the inhabited earth of the generations of life.
Not all relationships are equal but all fundamental human relationships equally exist in order that we may build them up into genuine friendships and to the extent that we build them up into friendships, these fundamental human relationships exist to purposefully gather us together in exile time, in and as our own nations, by the prevailing and eternal weight of what is common between all human beings. And nations not as strangers to each other but as a one family of the nations of Mankind.
Each and every truly human relationship is meant to be built up in exile time to approach the sweetness and abundance of those friendships that are those friendships meant to last forever which have their fruition in eternity.
Because of this, all human relationships and the perfection of their reality have their hope set not in this world but in the world to come after this one.
For it is indeed true that the law of this world is separation but communion is the law of heaven.
And in heaven we shall all be friends, and "friend" let us understand is quite a weak word with which to represent the substance of a timeless, ageless relationship in God and with one another in God that has no equal nor precedent in all of human experience and therefore, does not have any real representation in all the vocabulary of our nations.
Our Lord Christ have approximated it to be "as the angels" and indeed they shall be as such and for those who know the unsurpassed generosity of God - even more.
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My loveliest love, we are expecting what is being reported by our weather bureau as a "super" typhoon. Even now, there is much rainfall and the skies are constantly dark and overcast. There is a feeling of something looming ahead but at least, its not steamy and hot.
Our constant typhoons bring out the best and the worst in Filipinos. Sure, these unwanted visitors inflict so much unneeded damages in terms of life and property to our nation but these evil things, too have their purpose and a purpose that is always, always founded on the good that remain and not on the evil that has passed. For evil has no purpose, neither does evil have any relationship whatsoever with the good and so therefore, only good things have a purpose that is meaningful to the souls of Mankind. Divine Providence always intends to draw a greater good from an evil that is likewise permitted by our LORD to afflict the good of all creation.
OK, my love, having said that - let us look at the worst that these evil things, particularly at the aftermath of a particularly destructive typhoon, bring out in my people - well, none really that is inspired directly by malice but much by fault of ignorance: hoarding, price gauging, looting - all these driven by survival instincts, I would think, and not really by a will to inflict more damage on an already terrible occasion.
The quality of my people, our people, my darlingest dear - you and I together, is made manifest in the most desperate of situations where amidst the evil of the times, the good is quite easy to miss - even by the good and the good-intentioned. But isn't it such, my loveliest love, with all of our shared humanity? Only when the darkness is at its peak does the little light in ourselves be clearly seen by our naked reason without the aid of the grace of our LORD.
But what then when times are fair, my darlingest dear? And they shall be for everything must lead to that where our hope is concerned. It is then that we must as nations resort to our own particular and sacred remembrances together that our hopes may be sanctified into those things that are founded upon the bedrock reality that our nations are meant for better, brighter, nobler and kinder things than all of this darkness, division and despair. Because to forget the terrible costs of noble virtue and authentic human freedom is to forget our way ahead and so a nation without vision is but a shipwreck waiting to happen - to the eternal regret of all.
Complacency when times are fair where nations are concerned is the unraveling of the present but our seasonal typhoons, my love, terrible as they may seem are a constant reminder to my people to rise and to be gathered together above the evil of our days.
And so what good does these storms bring out in my people - our people, my loveliest Miyang, plenty, my love, plenty - and they should always be recognized and reinforced in ourselves so that we may no longer remain ignorant as to what we can accomplish as a nation together in God and Country.
I look at Japan and her steadfast identity that amidst the calamities she endures is like steel being forged by fire - Korea, too, with her strong sense of self shall, I believe, one day overcome her division - there's China, quietly and discreetly searching for herself, our own Southeast Asian nation-states who are all reaching out to the strength of our regional belongings to each other as ASEAN - that make us complete as a civilization, across Asia and the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and Oceania (including NZ and PNG) - our own humanity is calling out to ourselves, my loveliest love, that we may no longer be strangers to each other both as individual human beings and as individual human nations together.
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On a more local note, my darlingest dear, the flooding that usually results even when there is a local depression in our area give relief to the problem of understanding those wholes lesser than the national whole - the provincial, municipal and local (barangay) level - for verily some of our cities are very old and have very specific things that pertain and belong to each of those cities only - as themselves - and not in comparison to any other city, whether in-Country or outside of our sphere of responsibility.
An adequate sewerage system has never been a feature of the cities of our archipelagic nation-state - or at least to my knowledge. Something that I believe is such an oversight given the proximity and availability of the oceans from any given point in the geography of our nation.
There are no straight lines in the natural topography of the earth. And there are also no completely flat 0 degree incline that is not man-made. Upon much of these is the natural drainage of a particular area established and a sewer system pretty much follows that natural system of drainage.
I envision our "New Cordova" to possess such a sewerage system and other things that pertain and belong only to her as a city (of whose name I am not yet sure but - Miyangersjia - comes to mind) - including her own defense which shall be in-built into the structural code of our buildings to interface with our law-enforcement and Guard units and our tactics seamlessly.
In that city, all are human beings, human beings with a calling to belong to each other in a labor of hope and of life. If a person can not discern the reality of another person's own true being - whether that person is a Muslim, Christian, Jew or of another faith and/or nationality - believing more in the descendant gravity of division (for we know where that gravity shall lead) than the ascendant unity of our wholes - then unless that person realize otherwise, then that person has no business whatsoever with us.
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I love you, my loveliest love.
Always to always,
Pusing
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
20090503
Dear darlingest Miyang Marie,
My darlingest, sometime ago, I have sensed a shift in the pattern of temptation in my heart. Sin and the allure of sin that once in the company of each other was to my heart a body of one is not limited to being that anymore.
As it will be part of my repentance to bring this understanding to light, I shall do so, my love.
For there is a great difference between temptation and suggestion and they do not always travel together. The former attempts to assault the line of our will and so therefore, is either repelled or successfully breaches into the threshold of our hearts, while the latter attempts to creeps into our reason to bring into our consideration, the lie that evil can ever become good and good evil and so therefore, only require that our reason be indifferent to its presence or for our understanding to become distracted by its deception - both of these weaken the resolve in our will to repel temptation when it arrives.
Temptation impels us to answer "yes" or "no" but suggestion require us to only say "maybe" and they never always travel together, suggestion may also arrive without the main body which is temptation.
My baptismal vows, my love, to reject Satan and his pomp is precisely to be able to consistently repel sin and to be able to correctly identify, challenge and rebuke the allure of sin, and it saddens me to no end to think how ignorant I am to the wiles of the Adversary, that I have had to offend my LORD to learn to love the things one ought to love most truly.
How profound it is that our LORD loves a sinner such as I and so I will close this avenue of sin in my life for Him. I can no longer be indifferent to the allure of sin in my life, my darlingest - you know that, nor must I tire in being able to forcefully and vigorously state the truth in my heart, that even without the trademark force of temptation, these things do not belong in myself.
For this subtle infiltration of unwanted, uncalled for thoughts, which at times seem tiny, tedious and numerous, that in no-wise belong to me work to gradually deteriorate the resolve in my will so that when the charge of temptation does arrive, there is not sufficient strength in me to be able to grasp the grace of our LORD God which always comes to the aid of those who are in need.
I have much other things to tell you, my love - human need, fundamental human relationships, human dignity and more on the allure of sin. But I have to take to the shelter of Holy Mass first with my Lord Christ and Holy Mother Church and thank God for every good thing He showers to all those who are of good will - and to pray for our nations, my love.
And to pray for the grace of a good confession.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
I love Holy Mass, my love - and this Sunday's one is a particularly good one. We shall devote more time on this in our hearts still unable to put into words the experience of this particular encounter with our Lord Christ.
On the three sources of temptation; the flesh, the world and the Devil - the allure of sin is always underwritten by the latter, in the language of hell, to make evil of things that never were meant for purposes other than the will of our LORD in all of creation.
Of the flesh, our own brokenness, the cause of temptation is the reality of our own humanity - to make us less and less human by our belief in things other than who we really are, and it does so by its seeking to distort those necessary truths that belong and pertain specifically to our being human, the reality of our own being, distinct from other creatures, being both body and soul and this including the brokenness of our own selves - our particular vulnerabilities, peculiarities and our littleness in the sweep of creation that give rise to our common human needs.
Common human needs that when ignored cause suffering. Common human needs that when left unrecognized inspire conflict and attract the spirit of war. Common human needs that when willfully exploited give rise to those systems of evil (structures of sin) that support those false economies that are a veritable bane to our nations, sapping the marrow from our every labor of Country, making it tasteless and hollow, and seemingly without hope.
There are nine common human needs: Hunger, Thirst, Clothing, Shelter, Security of Life and Property, Basic Literacy, Just Society, Authentic Freedom, and Meaningful Existence.
There is no such thing as a false relationship, my love. A relationship either exists or it does not exist. And verily, all human beings have in existence a fundamental relationship which is more real than the differences that for a time is allowed to rule against the peace of our nations.
We all draw the lineages of our generations from one parental descent and we all share in the heritage of our souls, a dignity that each and every human being is never without in the image and the likeness of our LORD God in ourselves, in the vision that our LORD sees in each of us which is the name that our Creator has drawn in heaven, our own true names which summoned us into being from the nothingness.
In my own Christianity, my love - the sacred humanity of my Lord Jesus Christ is the primary source of the truth of our human relationship in my Holy Mother Church and in each and every human person sanctified by the Incarnation of God, most especially in our Lord's Poor.
Therefore, the recognition of human dignity explicitly must raise into our awareness this rank and significance in each and every human person - as a direct rebuke to the allure of sin that seek to make objects of people.
Now, human dignity is a motion in time that is best apprehended in three parts: Divine Dignity, Common Responsibility and Eternal Destiny.
It is a divine dignity that inclines the heart of Man to seek to the truth and that which grants in our person a life that extends beyond the pale of this world.
It is a common responsibility that in our brokenness creates the necessary foundation of a truly human community.
The reality of our families, companies, societies, and our nations - that give succor, support and shelter to our individual brokenness - all draw their breath from this truth in the heart of Mankind.
The fundamental truth that exist between each and every human person across all our generations from the autumnal dusk of our faded Eden to the Last Day, is that we all are related and this relationship is our shared humanity. It is our belonging to each other as keeper and friend and something more real than the darkness that prevails as an evil for a time, more substantial than the emptiness of the world, and so much greater than all of our brokenness put together.
For the truth exists and evil can not prevail against it - our relationships together are real and where our nations seem far from the truth of its own calling, when the darkness of war seem to cause in our nations so much despair, something that our own sacred remembrances calls all of our Mankind to return into, in God and in Country.
Eternal destiny is the pursuit of happiness and the right of every soul. It is that which give each human hope its native wings so that the dreaming in Mankind may soon awake. It is the nobility that seek to become in each and every person; that which recognizes the need and the suffering and that which desire that all good things be fulfilled. It is that which seeks to make things whole again in all things so that all of life may prevail in peace.
All these three things comprise the common motion of human dignity in each and every human individual, and each and every human person is never without it from conception to death and across into God where it shall be perfected in eternity for those who sought in themselves, the reality of our being human.
Evil can not take the place of the good in things, for the purposes of the good only serves those purposes which advance the cause of good things, where evil exists, there is only evil and evil may only be allowed to prevail for a time.
Repentance is a turning away from the darkness. It is a shedding away of former things. It is a burying of the past. It is a return to the remembrance of good things that God may fill our hearts with light.
It is the first call that our Lord Christ issued forth in the Gospels and the first step back into the path of hope for every human person; that awakening change which fulfills in each ourselves the very promise of our lives. It is the calling of every human individual regardless of our differences for God calls whom God wills and there is no God but God, one, peerless and alone above all.
Of the world, my love, it is naught but emptiness and vanity. Temptations that rise from this source of temptation draw their cause from truths pertaining to human happiness.
The world is emptiness for verily, this place is not the destiny that our LORD promises all of our nations to inhabit and the heart of Mankind knows this implicitly.
Fast forward in exile time and science itself will confirm that ultimate end of all things in the visible universe entire. The happiness that humanity pursues extends beyond this emptiness and where the truth of this is misplaced, worldliness and worldly values that seem to imitate happiness but which are really fickle and false things, give rise to vanities that when they become an occupation in Man, hardens the heart, stops the flow of time in his soul, arrests the wings of his own hope and throws him into a prison of despair - a lie within a lie.
The flesh is brokenness and the world is emptiness, the Devil is darkness; a lurking that waits in those vast wilderness regions away from our belongings to each other, the uncertainty that the walls of our own hearts of faith, that City within our souls, stand guard against - so that if any of us moves away from these, we shall encounter the third and the strongest source of temptation.
Which is why the Good Shepherd who seeks the lost, leaves the ninety-nine to look for the one.
The more we allow for our human habitation to become a wilderness, an unknown earth, divided and conquered by the hordes of hell, the less and less brightly the light of human civilization, in each our nations, will be able to bring forth the building up of our earth - commanded by God - in each our endeavor of Country in exile time - into the inhabited earth which I saw in a vision as a crystal blue sphere, shining with a multitude of living light.
A vision that abruptly came to me while I was awake in the day and stayed with me even as I wondered how wondrous and beautiful beyond imagination it was that I thought I was seeing through the eyes of angels and then a thick darkness that it seemed for an instant that it was not there anymore but it was, only overrun and being so is no longer distinct from the nothingness.
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My darlingest, sometime ago, I have sensed a shift in the pattern of temptation in my heart. Sin and the allure of sin that once in the company of each other was to my heart a body of one is not limited to being that anymore.
As it will be part of my repentance to bring this understanding to light, I shall do so, my love.
For there is a great difference between temptation and suggestion and they do not always travel together. The former attempts to assault the line of our will and so therefore, is either repelled or successfully breaches into the threshold of our hearts, while the latter attempts to creeps into our reason to bring into our consideration, the lie that evil can ever become good and good evil and so therefore, only require that our reason be indifferent to its presence or for our understanding to become distracted by its deception - both of these weaken the resolve in our will to repel temptation when it arrives.
Temptation impels us to answer "yes" or "no" but suggestion require us to only say "maybe" and they never always travel together, suggestion may also arrive without the main body which is temptation.
My baptismal vows, my love, to reject Satan and his pomp is precisely to be able to consistently repel sin and to be able to correctly identify, challenge and rebuke the allure of sin, and it saddens me to no end to think how ignorant I am to the wiles of the Adversary, that I have had to offend my LORD to learn to love the things one ought to love most truly.
How profound it is that our LORD loves a sinner such as I and so I will close this avenue of sin in my life for Him. I can no longer be indifferent to the allure of sin in my life, my darlingest - you know that, nor must I tire in being able to forcefully and vigorously state the truth in my heart, that even without the trademark force of temptation, these things do not belong in myself.
For this subtle infiltration of unwanted, uncalled for thoughts, which at times seem tiny, tedious and numerous, that in no-wise belong to me work to gradually deteriorate the resolve in my will so that when the charge of temptation does arrive, there is not sufficient strength in me to be able to grasp the grace of our LORD God which always comes to the aid of those who are in need.
I have much other things to tell you, my love - human need, fundamental human relationships, human dignity and more on the allure of sin. But I have to take to the shelter of Holy Mass first with my Lord Christ and Holy Mother Church and thank God for every good thing He showers to all those who are of good will - and to pray for our nations, my love.
And to pray for the grace of a good confession.
I love you.
Always to always,
Pusing
I love Holy Mass, my love - and this Sunday's one is a particularly good one. We shall devote more time on this in our hearts still unable to put into words the experience of this particular encounter with our Lord Christ.
On the three sources of temptation; the flesh, the world and the Devil - the allure of sin is always underwritten by the latter, in the language of hell, to make evil of things that never were meant for purposes other than the will of our LORD in all of creation.
Of the flesh, our own brokenness, the cause of temptation is the reality of our own humanity - to make us less and less human by our belief in things other than who we really are, and it does so by its seeking to distort those necessary truths that belong and pertain specifically to our being human, the reality of our own being, distinct from other creatures, being both body and soul and this including the brokenness of our own selves - our particular vulnerabilities, peculiarities and our littleness in the sweep of creation that give rise to our common human needs.
Common human needs that when ignored cause suffering. Common human needs that when left unrecognized inspire conflict and attract the spirit of war. Common human needs that when willfully exploited give rise to those systems of evil (structures of sin) that support those false economies that are a veritable bane to our nations, sapping the marrow from our every labor of Country, making it tasteless and hollow, and seemingly without hope.
There are nine common human needs: Hunger, Thirst, Clothing, Shelter, Security of Life and Property, Basic Literacy, Just Society, Authentic Freedom, and Meaningful Existence.
There is no such thing as a false relationship, my love. A relationship either exists or it does not exist. And verily, all human beings have in existence a fundamental relationship which is more real than the differences that for a time is allowed to rule against the peace of our nations.
We all draw the lineages of our generations from one parental descent and we all share in the heritage of our souls, a dignity that each and every human being is never without in the image and the likeness of our LORD God in ourselves, in the vision that our LORD sees in each of us which is the name that our Creator has drawn in heaven, our own true names which summoned us into being from the nothingness.
In my own Christianity, my love - the sacred humanity of my Lord Jesus Christ is the primary source of the truth of our human relationship in my Holy Mother Church and in each and every human person sanctified by the Incarnation of God, most especially in our Lord's Poor.
Therefore, the recognition of human dignity explicitly must raise into our awareness this rank and significance in each and every human person - as a direct rebuke to the allure of sin that seek to make objects of people.
Now, human dignity is a motion in time that is best apprehended in three parts: Divine Dignity, Common Responsibility and Eternal Destiny.
It is a divine dignity that inclines the heart of Man to seek to the truth and that which grants in our person a life that extends beyond the pale of this world.
It is a common responsibility that in our brokenness creates the necessary foundation of a truly human community.
The reality of our families, companies, societies, and our nations - that give succor, support and shelter to our individual brokenness - all draw their breath from this truth in the heart of Mankind.
The fundamental truth that exist between each and every human person across all our generations from the autumnal dusk of our faded Eden to the Last Day, is that we all are related and this relationship is our shared humanity. It is our belonging to each other as keeper and friend and something more real than the darkness that prevails as an evil for a time, more substantial than the emptiness of the world, and so much greater than all of our brokenness put together.
For the truth exists and evil can not prevail against it - our relationships together are real and where our nations seem far from the truth of its own calling, when the darkness of war seem to cause in our nations so much despair, something that our own sacred remembrances calls all of our Mankind to return into, in God and in Country.
Eternal destiny is the pursuit of happiness and the right of every soul. It is that which give each human hope its native wings so that the dreaming in Mankind may soon awake. It is the nobility that seek to become in each and every person; that which recognizes the need and the suffering and that which desire that all good things be fulfilled. It is that which seeks to make things whole again in all things so that all of life may prevail in peace.
All these three things comprise the common motion of human dignity in each and every human individual, and each and every human person is never without it from conception to death and across into God where it shall be perfected in eternity for those who sought in themselves, the reality of our being human.
Evil can not take the place of the good in things, for the purposes of the good only serves those purposes which advance the cause of good things, where evil exists, there is only evil and evil may only be allowed to prevail for a time.
Repentance is a turning away from the darkness. It is a shedding away of former things. It is a burying of the past. It is a return to the remembrance of good things that God may fill our hearts with light.
It is the first call that our Lord Christ issued forth in the Gospels and the first step back into the path of hope for every human person; that awakening change which fulfills in each ourselves the very promise of our lives. It is the calling of every human individual regardless of our differences for God calls whom God wills and there is no God but God, one, peerless and alone above all.
Of the world, my love, it is naught but emptiness and vanity. Temptations that rise from this source of temptation draw their cause from truths pertaining to human happiness.
The world is emptiness for verily, this place is not the destiny that our LORD promises all of our nations to inhabit and the heart of Mankind knows this implicitly.
Fast forward in exile time and science itself will confirm that ultimate end of all things in the visible universe entire. The happiness that humanity pursues extends beyond this emptiness and where the truth of this is misplaced, worldliness and worldly values that seem to imitate happiness but which are really fickle and false things, give rise to vanities that when they become an occupation in Man, hardens the heart, stops the flow of time in his soul, arrests the wings of his own hope and throws him into a prison of despair - a lie within a lie.
The flesh is brokenness and the world is emptiness, the Devil is darkness; a lurking that waits in those vast wilderness regions away from our belongings to each other, the uncertainty that the walls of our own hearts of faith, that City within our souls, stand guard against - so that if any of us moves away from these, we shall encounter the third and the strongest source of temptation.
Which is why the Good Shepherd who seeks the lost, leaves the ninety-nine to look for the one.
The more we allow for our human habitation to become a wilderness, an unknown earth, divided and conquered by the hordes of hell, the less and less brightly the light of human civilization, in each our nations, will be able to bring forth the building up of our earth - commanded by God - in each our endeavor of Country in exile time - into the inhabited earth which I saw in a vision as a crystal blue sphere, shining with a multitude of living light.
A vision that abruptly came to me while I was awake in the day and stayed with me even as I wondered how wondrous and beautiful beyond imagination it was that I thought I was seeing through the eyes of angels and then a thick darkness that it seemed for an instant that it was not there anymore but it was, only overrun and being so is no longer distinct from the nothingness.
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