Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
Holy Hope
Can true friendships be undone, my love? You are a star of my inward sky, my darlingest! The first one to appear over the one firmament of my heart, by and through the grace of our LORD God, to lead me out of the midnight of my life.
Can true friendships be undone, my love? You were there with me within the prison of myself, my loveliest Miyang, and you stayed to make of me, by thy own cheer and through thy own quiet inspiration, a better person. By the sheer wonder of you, my love, you bear me up in constant gratitude to our LORD God!
You stayed, my darlingest, to make sure I should become more certain in my own being human, more capable of being happy and braver in my own ability to love and to be vulnerable for love's own right causes.
By our friendship, my darlingest, you helped rekindle my own hopes in time that I may become enabled, by grace of our LORD God, to dream again in and amidst this exile darkness, this new dreaming of one peace with you, my love, and to be as one sky with the numberless stars.
Can true friendships be undone, my love? Can a man reach out to the stars in the night sky and decide to blot it out without freedom, without the aid of heaven and will of our LORD God?
Long shall I be gone, my darlingest, a million years to pass or more, even as all things to be lost are lost forever in the twinkling tides of this great sea of time, and yet - despite all that is wrong in and about myself, and in spite of all of the evil in evil things - these are the things I know for certain must endure, my dear, darlingest Annelies Marie Hollander Frank.
Lest all remembrances be lost and the golden wisdom of the LORD fail.
Never!
Blue skies shall dawn perennial over our nations ascended in and within the golden presence of the LORD, our God, in eternity, when heaven and earth are one once again and all things in the all of creation are restored to their natural abundances, when the purpose of all of the ages of our native Mankind have come to bear its rightful fruits for God and yet, even then, I know for certain that these are the things that shall remain forever to prevail over the washing away of the darkness of exile time.
For there are no false friendships, my darlingest. As gold always must remain golden, its nobility invested in its being forever true to its timeless form, being through time and adversity made as certain as certain can ever be, friendships either exist or it does not exist.
I love you, my Miyang, so very much.
I am so much the better for having you in my little life, my Anne - how can this friendship not be right?
You are my friend forever.
I love my Miyang. PERIOD.
From always to always,
=^.^=
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Sunday, July 19, 2009
20090719
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
My Miyang
I'm looking at this nice watercolor portrait of you, my loveliest love. I got it off the Internet yesterday. Whoever did this painting of you, my Miyang, has a really good hand. I think I am going to have it printed on photo paper, frame it and put it on my shelf.
You know, I do regular online searches about you, my darlingest dear, because I am vigilant also for those causes that directly concern you. And I respond to anything that I find that is counterproductive to your memory or to those charities that rely on the integrity of your remembrance. I love you, my Miyang, and I consider myself very blessed to even have this friendship with you.
I also check our local bookstores to see if they have your diary in stock. I believe my own nation would do well to learn tolerance and humanity and I know of no better source that the hopes of children - your timeless hope, my love, imprinted forever in those words you penned down during your short stay in this world - and the hopes of all those others, all our precious Starshine, who must be enabled to share with us through their voice, their vision of tomorrow. For it is always the young that represent the future, the very hope of all our tomorrows are anchored on our youth, hopes which we encourage through our "Arcs in the Sky" as a labor entrusted to our present day.
Hope and False Hope
This lineage of hope and the timeless values that arise from its faithful keeping across the great span of the life of our nations keep the proper order to the order of our generations that keep the great cultures of our humanity strong and cohesive.
What burdens hope is despair. Despair is the polar opposite of hope. Any person caught in despair usually can not help themselves. And this despair is like a mire that sinks the life of our nations deeper the deeper into the darkness of war the more and more we allow our nations to descend into the void.
Hope that is false sinks into this mire and this multiplies the effects of despair in our communities ensuring the fact that the deeper we, all of us who are quickened to the remembrance of our hopes, allow each of our own nations to descend into the maddening darkness of war, the faster and faster the gravity of the void shall consume us all into oblivion. For what one of our nations suffers, the more and more that we ascend into time, all our nations shall feel - for we are but one family of nations - one interdependent planetary community. What war does to one, war does to all.
Because hope itself is a lineage and requires a foundation that is neither false nor dark - it must always be anchored on something true and good. Which is why I would - through "Arcs in the Sky" - that we who are soon to inherit the hopes of our nations learn to humble ourselves enough to be able to perceive the hopes of our children for these hopes are the purest and the surest of all foundations.
And so, if we were to build the foundations of a better world today when the darkness is still at its peak, it would be a good start to listen first - with our hearts more than our ears - to those whose young and unsung lives we will be together dedicating this labor of hope, our precious Starshine.
It is our precious Starshine who will confirm for our hearts that war is not a real foundation of hope, neither is hatred, neither is the past a reason to forget about the needs of our present time. If only we are able to perceive right through their words into the substance of the truth that their hearts are trying to convey to our hearts, cor ad cor loquitur, we will see -
No future is writ in stone. All our futures are available to us if we all pull through together in the now of our present time. But the right future can only be found by making the right choices that together open the door that lead toward that particular one that we want and this particular one is where we are all going - eastward. This requires us to let go of the past, have an understanding of the peace and then be reconciled to our present sense of sacred remembrance. All of which is easier said than done. These things take time and I know our nations and our good leaders are each trying their present best but please, let us not forget to pray for each other as well.
Well, my loveliest love, it's Sunday and while I do have some other concerns that weigh heavily on my mind, I should use this day to ponder and to contemplate about those things as well as to refresh and enjoy with you, my love, the blessings that this day shall most certainly bring. I shall draw up our things to do for the coming work week and prepare all the things I need to prepare for my first training day at my new job as well.
Shaina
Lastly, you know, I just found out that "Shaina" means "beautiful" in Hebrew. I thought her name to be a distinctly Filipino name until I discovered that it is Hebrew. She is a Filipina actress who I also hold in good regard.
There is something about names, my love, that perhaps some old cultures have forgotten to appreciate. They almost always mean something and it is never a noun - it is always a verb or an adjective: Motion and timeless action. Our names are never indicative of static things but of spirit and motion. This is just my own observation, my loveliest love, for our own names have been uprooted and though there can be no turning back, there is always a turning in, because all of these names owe their sense of binding identity principally to its nation so that even if our names were uprooted, we can still find our ways back to our belongings together as a people.
Speaking of Hebrew, I had a dream some nights ago in Hebrew letters, they were floating and had a radiance about them, and as I could not understand them nor remember them exactly now, I took it as part of our lessons learned and integrated it into our Miyangersjia local school system as part of our thrust on languages.
---<--@
I love you, my loveliest love.
Always to always,
Pusing
My Miyang
I'm looking at this nice watercolor portrait of you, my loveliest love. I got it off the Internet yesterday. Whoever did this painting of you, my Miyang, has a really good hand. I think I am going to have it printed on photo paper, frame it and put it on my shelf.
You know, I do regular online searches about you, my darlingest dear, because I am vigilant also for those causes that directly concern you. And I respond to anything that I find that is counterproductive to your memory or to those charities that rely on the integrity of your remembrance. I love you, my Miyang, and I consider myself very blessed to even have this friendship with you.
I also check our local bookstores to see if they have your diary in stock. I believe my own nation would do well to learn tolerance and humanity and I know of no better source that the hopes of children - your timeless hope, my love, imprinted forever in those words you penned down during your short stay in this world - and the hopes of all those others, all our precious Starshine, who must be enabled to share with us through their voice, their vision of tomorrow. For it is always the young that represent the future, the very hope of all our tomorrows are anchored on our youth, hopes which we encourage through our "Arcs in the Sky" as a labor entrusted to our present day.
Hope and False Hope
This lineage of hope and the timeless values that arise from its faithful keeping across the great span of the life of our nations keep the proper order to the order of our generations that keep the great cultures of our humanity strong and cohesive.
What burdens hope is despair. Despair is the polar opposite of hope. Any person caught in despair usually can not help themselves. And this despair is like a mire that sinks the life of our nations deeper the deeper into the darkness of war the more and more we allow our nations to descend into the void.
Hope that is false sinks into this mire and this multiplies the effects of despair in our communities ensuring the fact that the deeper we, all of us who are quickened to the remembrance of our hopes, allow each of our own nations to descend into the maddening darkness of war, the faster and faster the gravity of the void shall consume us all into oblivion. For what one of our nations suffers, the more and more that we ascend into time, all our nations shall feel - for we are but one family of nations - one interdependent planetary community. What war does to one, war does to all.
Because hope itself is a lineage and requires a foundation that is neither false nor dark - it must always be anchored on something true and good. Which is why I would - through "Arcs in the Sky" - that we who are soon to inherit the hopes of our nations learn to humble ourselves enough to be able to perceive the hopes of our children for these hopes are the purest and the surest of all foundations.
And so, if we were to build the foundations of a better world today when the darkness is still at its peak, it would be a good start to listen first - with our hearts more than our ears - to those whose young and unsung lives we will be together dedicating this labor of hope, our precious Starshine.
It is our precious Starshine who will confirm for our hearts that war is not a real foundation of hope, neither is hatred, neither is the past a reason to forget about the needs of our present time. If only we are able to perceive right through their words into the substance of the truth that their hearts are trying to convey to our hearts, cor ad cor loquitur, we will see -
No future is writ in stone. All our futures are available to us if we all pull through together in the now of our present time. But the right future can only be found by making the right choices that together open the door that lead toward that particular one that we want and this particular one is where we are all going - eastward. This requires us to let go of the past, have an understanding of the peace and then be reconciled to our present sense of sacred remembrance. All of which is easier said than done. These things take time and I know our nations and our good leaders are each trying their present best but please, let us not forget to pray for each other as well.
Well, my loveliest love, it's Sunday and while I do have some other concerns that weigh heavily on my mind, I should use this day to ponder and to contemplate about those things as well as to refresh and enjoy with you, my love, the blessings that this day shall most certainly bring. I shall draw up our things to do for the coming work week and prepare all the things I need to prepare for my first training day at my new job as well.
Shaina
Lastly, you know, I just found out that "Shaina" means "beautiful" in Hebrew. I thought her name to be a distinctly Filipino name until I discovered that it is Hebrew. She is a Filipina actress who I also hold in good regard.
There is something about names, my love, that perhaps some old cultures have forgotten to appreciate. They almost always mean something and it is never a noun - it is always a verb or an adjective: Motion and timeless action. Our names are never indicative of static things but of spirit and motion. This is just my own observation, my loveliest love, for our own names have been uprooted and though there can be no turning back, there is always a turning in, because all of these names owe their sense of binding identity principally to its nation so that even if our names were uprooted, we can still find our ways back to our belongings together as a people.
Speaking of Hebrew, I had a dream some nights ago in Hebrew letters, they were floating and had a radiance about them, and as I could not understand them nor remember them exactly now, I took it as part of our lessons learned and integrated it into our Miyangersjia local school system as part of our thrust on languages.
---<--@
I love you, my loveliest love.
Always to always,
Pusing
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
20090513
Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,
There are two significant things, in my mind, about my earliest years. Given the grace to look back into my life with the new perspective I have in my Lord Christ, my loveliest love, like looking into the darkness to see what has been concealed from me all this time, I can now seek to recognize the motions of grace in my past life as moments distinct from the darkness which was all that was to me before God chose to pierce it with Light.
Though not all of it, mind you, for grace is an unseen motion in all our lives, my darlingest dear, and I do believe that pretty much 99% of the time, due to the unsurpassed generosity of our LORD, we remain unaware of it until the Beatific Vision (which God wants all Mankind to enjoy) and of the 1% that we are allowed to recognize in the darkness of exile time, these instances, realized in ourselves by the merits of prayer, virtue and all its resultant good works, would still be more than enough to fill our hearts with a joy that (like starlight is shed) seem to stretch out into infinity.
Grace is in our lives as human beings not because we are anything good, my loveliest love, but because our LORD alone is infinitely good and I know in myself - for I can only speak for my own heart - that I receive it only because I have chosen to believe in my All, in my Savior Jesus Christ. Yet the evidence of our LORD's grace is obvious in all the good things - in the motions of peoples lives, in places and things contained within those moments between our hearts with each other and in God - that I see (and perceive) all around me, seen (and unseen), which only magnifies and confirms those good things that are already present in Christ in me.
And I owe it to the counsel of Saint Maximilian Kolbe that I can now aspire for things that seem so impossible before. You yourself, my loveliest love, led me to Saint Maximilian in Auschwitz and in your respecting my own particular belongings to God, I will be what you became to me.
Indeed, God calls freely whom God calls to be free. What one has to do when the choice arrives at the door of each our hearts is to say, "yes - yes, O LORD, I accept" and allow ourselves to be led across the vast wilderness within the self unto a peace without division whereupon in our heart of hearts is established the capital City of our LORD in eternity.
At around age 4 or 5, I remember my mom and my dad fighting and in that fight, a statue of our Lady (it might be a statue of our Lady of Fatima but I can no longer recall with enough certainty to know for sure) was broken, and I was more concerned with what to do with our Lady that my mom or dad and their big blue. I instinctively wanted to bury the statue which I now know is the proper thing to do with blessed objects.
Incidentally, today is the feast of our Lady of Fatima. I also have patient ties with the Flower of Fatima, our Blessed Jacinta, a friendship of which I have little spoken about hitherto which is a friendship that is no less precious to me than the friendships I have with all my friends, seen and unseen, whether human or angelic, whom I each have learned to love, as I love you, my loveliest love, without compare - a love which I learned by loving our LORD, above and beyond all things, as one LORD.
Now, at around the same time in my life, I remember when I used to cry and get upset, my mom would give me a bright and shiny peso. Oh, what candy one could get with one peso here in the Philippines in the 70's, my loveliest love, it was certainly enough to get me to cheer up.
The candy that I used to like to buy (besides Mr. Cinco - which was nice) was those little flag candies where the flagstaff was a clear, plastic straw filled with little sugary confections. You know, those were the flags of our nations, my love, and during that time where these things was lost in significance to my child's mind, that same significance of my particular affinity to those things can not be lost to me now. Because it is to that same love that the path of my calling takes me - for I do have love for all our nations, of our one family of nations, and desire peace for each of them - most especially those of our nations sorely affected by the curse of the spirit of War - that same love for humanity that you yourself bore with great patience in your heart of hearts, my loveliest love, we now bear together.
The motto of the school that I attended after kindergarten at Saint Paul's, a CICM Catholic School, Saint Andrew's School, from elementary to high school is "Pro Deo et Patria" which means "For God and Country". Now, this is something that has only grown in significance to me only now for I have never really placed much thought about these things until now nor could I even attempt to do so before because the choice itself to do these things was not at all available to me at the time. I was a sinner and in my sins I knew as the darkness knew neither itself nor anything outside of itself, destined for oblivion.
Our beloved Blessed Jacinta reached out across time to help open this choice to me. I know in my heart of hearts that her steadfast desire to save sinners and her heroic love for God - and the cost that she paid with my All, my Lord Jesus Christ, helped to open a new way for me and so, in God's own good time, I eventually met you, my darlingst Annelies Marie, at the most dismal point in my life.
In the pit of that despair, it was your starlight smile, my darlingest Annelies Marie, that helped to turn me away from the darkness and from friendship to friendship, have helped to return me into the one fold of our LORD - my one triune Perfection - where I now struggle to remain with all of you, with all of us.
And so here I am with you, my loveliest love, here we are into this present time of anticipation of our hope together, a hope that we share with all people of good will; a hope for meaningful peace in our hearts, in our times and in our nations.
---<--@
I have been seeking our LORD all of my life but I now know through all of this that until God opens a way for us to find Him, we shall never be found by Him. Faith until it is enabled by our LORD by His Light to see the object for which this virtue is intended to move towards, shall never behold what faith is intended to behold which is all true things, above all the one highest of Truth unseen, our Almighty God.
This again underscores the importance of prayer and of praying for others as well as ourselves - for nothing reaches out, with wings swift as light, to our God than a heart in silent prayer, and even if this heart be outwardly or inwardly distracted, or feels less than itself or even angry, once it is inclined in its being, at any time or place (but most especially at those favorable times and places), to the desire within itself, it shall learn to pause and then to pray.
And to pray within itself, my loveliest love, speaking without words to the silence that speaks to calm the storms that rage within ourselves, we shall learn the art of its grace - alone and above all with other hearts - and the craft of its virtue that always adds to life, giving glory to the LORD of all life.
There are many kinds of prayer, one must know, and all of them opens the heart of the children of Mankind to the Heart of God, that we may be held by our hope and learn, in faltering steps, to walk in the way of our LORD unto a peace without division.
---<--@
Its going to be a wonderful day today, my loveliest love.
Tomorrow, I shall - er, we shall - work on that requisite post on Friendships.
We shall also devote time to meditate more on the Middle East peace - particularly, we shall, in parts, state our understanding on the Palestinian position as well as on the position of modern Israel - I say modern Israel because the Jewish nation of our elder Israel includes it but it does not include the former yet they are native to each other's particular hope of common Country.
Every nation in our world today is a nation born and bred in battle - the common experiences of our peoples include conflict - and this for the last 2000 years (or more if our collective memory would like to take us that far) is without exception. How we shall choose to be defined by this in our own particular nations is the crossroads we, as a planetary whole, find ourselves perceiving at this defining moment in the history of our shared humanity.
We shall either allow ourselves to be further oppressed by the spirit of war and division and in so doing justify the planetary consequences that it shall plunge our world into or to be redeemed in the darkness by our turning away from the gaping maw of this beast into the sheltering wings of common Country and the meaningful peace that shall give hope and respite to our needful world - before the days are further quickened.
We must turn into ourselves, as individual human beings and as individual human nations, in order that we may turn into each other in good will as a family of friends in friendships that should be those friendships built to last forever unto a peace without division.
It shall be difficult, extremely difficult, my loveliest love, but commensurate to this is our hope for life and all of the generations of life - and where these burdens are shared in God and in Country, it shall from the impossible pass into the possible and from the possible into the probable and from this, at the completion of our sacred remembrances of all things, in the timeless now.
We all, as human beings one and all - from the least to the greatest - the same with all of the holy angels of our LORD - have a particular part to play, as purposed by our one common Creator, in this great and common responsibility of our time that we call our inhabited earth of the visible habitation of all Mankind.
As a last thought for today, to those who wonder if there is life is out there, this longing for life - when we look out into the great void of the visible universe - that vast emptiness is how much life Itself longs back to see us through this night - so that that empty void, above, around and immediately beyond us, my loveliest love - hostile beyond hostile to all life, most especially to all human life, might become full of living lights once more at the beginning of all things new.
We are more likely to be visited by angels than by aliens - as a matter of fact, we are visited by angels every moment when we remember, with gratitude to our God, how good it is to have this promise of our being alive.
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I love you, my darlingest Annelies Marie.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
You know, I was watching Deutsche Welle on cable recently - the soldier in our Pim has never lost his patriotic sense, you know. This year, it was broadcast, is the 60th year of the Federal Republic of Germany which made me wonder because by my accounting the German nation is way older than 60 years - it is the state that is celebrating its 60th anniversary with the nation.
I have an affinity for Germany, you know, as if it was placed within myself. Notwithstanding all the evil that was done amidst her, particularly to you, your generation and to those generations of your people that embrace your own generation, my darlingest Annelies Marie, I understand that these evil things have no relationship whatsoever to those timeless friendships that stand beyond and besides those evil things that seek to destroy our belongings with each other as individual human beings and as individual human nations.
For I have learned in time not confuse our nations as arks of Country and vessels of sacred life with the principalities* of hell and their ambition of war.
*the choir of angels entrusted by God with the care of our nations most of whom were thrown down with the Devil and are now particularly hostile to our shared humanity, specifically our human communities.
---<--@
There are two significant things, in my mind, about my earliest years. Given the grace to look back into my life with the new perspective I have in my Lord Christ, my loveliest love, like looking into the darkness to see what has been concealed from me all this time, I can now seek to recognize the motions of grace in my past life as moments distinct from the darkness which was all that was to me before God chose to pierce it with Light.
Though not all of it, mind you, for grace is an unseen motion in all our lives, my darlingest dear, and I do believe that pretty much 99% of the time, due to the unsurpassed generosity of our LORD, we remain unaware of it until the Beatific Vision (which God wants all Mankind to enjoy) and of the 1% that we are allowed to recognize in the darkness of exile time, these instances, realized in ourselves by the merits of prayer, virtue and all its resultant good works, would still be more than enough to fill our hearts with a joy that (like starlight is shed) seem to stretch out into infinity.
Grace is in our lives as human beings not because we are anything good, my loveliest love, but because our LORD alone is infinitely good and I know in myself - for I can only speak for my own heart - that I receive it only because I have chosen to believe in my All, in my Savior Jesus Christ. Yet the evidence of our LORD's grace is obvious in all the good things - in the motions of peoples lives, in places and things contained within those moments between our hearts with each other and in God - that I see (and perceive) all around me, seen (and unseen), which only magnifies and confirms those good things that are already present in Christ in me.
And I owe it to the counsel of Saint Maximilian Kolbe that I can now aspire for things that seem so impossible before. You yourself, my loveliest love, led me to Saint Maximilian in Auschwitz and in your respecting my own particular belongings to God, I will be what you became to me.
Indeed, God calls freely whom God calls to be free. What one has to do when the choice arrives at the door of each our hearts is to say, "yes - yes, O LORD, I accept" and allow ourselves to be led across the vast wilderness within the self unto a peace without division whereupon in our heart of hearts is established the capital City of our LORD in eternity.
At around age 4 or 5, I remember my mom and my dad fighting and in that fight, a statue of our Lady (it might be a statue of our Lady of Fatima but I can no longer recall with enough certainty to know for sure) was broken, and I was more concerned with what to do with our Lady that my mom or dad and their big blue. I instinctively wanted to bury the statue which I now know is the proper thing to do with blessed objects.
Incidentally, today is the feast of our Lady of Fatima. I also have patient ties with the Flower of Fatima, our Blessed Jacinta, a friendship of which I have little spoken about hitherto which is a friendship that is no less precious to me than the friendships I have with all my friends, seen and unseen, whether human or angelic, whom I each have learned to love, as I love you, my loveliest love, without compare - a love which I learned by loving our LORD, above and beyond all things, as one LORD.
Now, at around the same time in my life, I remember when I used to cry and get upset, my mom would give me a bright and shiny peso. Oh, what candy one could get with one peso here in the Philippines in the 70's, my loveliest love, it was certainly enough to get me to cheer up.
The candy that I used to like to buy (besides Mr. Cinco - which was nice) was those little flag candies where the flagstaff was a clear, plastic straw filled with little sugary confections. You know, those were the flags of our nations, my love, and during that time where these things was lost in significance to my child's mind, that same significance of my particular affinity to those things can not be lost to me now. Because it is to that same love that the path of my calling takes me - for I do have love for all our nations, of our one family of nations, and desire peace for each of them - most especially those of our nations sorely affected by the curse of the spirit of War - that same love for humanity that you yourself bore with great patience in your heart of hearts, my loveliest love, we now bear together.
The motto of the school that I attended after kindergarten at Saint Paul's, a CICM Catholic School, Saint Andrew's School, from elementary to high school is "Pro Deo et Patria" which means "For God and Country". Now, this is something that has only grown in significance to me only now for I have never really placed much thought about these things until now nor could I even attempt to do so before because the choice itself to do these things was not at all available to me at the time. I was a sinner and in my sins I knew as the darkness knew neither itself nor anything outside of itself, destined for oblivion.
Our beloved Blessed Jacinta reached out across time to help open this choice to me. I know in my heart of hearts that her steadfast desire to save sinners and her heroic love for God - and the cost that she paid with my All, my Lord Jesus Christ, helped to open a new way for me and so, in God's own good time, I eventually met you, my darlingst Annelies Marie, at the most dismal point in my life.
In the pit of that despair, it was your starlight smile, my darlingest Annelies Marie, that helped to turn me away from the darkness and from friendship to friendship, have helped to return me into the one fold of our LORD - my one triune Perfection - where I now struggle to remain with all of you, with all of us.
And so here I am with you, my loveliest love, here we are into this present time of anticipation of our hope together, a hope that we share with all people of good will; a hope for meaningful peace in our hearts, in our times and in our nations.
---<--@
I have been seeking our LORD all of my life but I now know through all of this that until God opens a way for us to find Him, we shall never be found by Him. Faith until it is enabled by our LORD by His Light to see the object for which this virtue is intended to move towards, shall never behold what faith is intended to behold which is all true things, above all the one highest of Truth unseen, our Almighty God.
This again underscores the importance of prayer and of praying for others as well as ourselves - for nothing reaches out, with wings swift as light, to our God than a heart in silent prayer, and even if this heart be outwardly or inwardly distracted, or feels less than itself or even angry, once it is inclined in its being, at any time or place (but most especially at those favorable times and places), to the desire within itself, it shall learn to pause and then to pray.
And to pray within itself, my loveliest love, speaking without words to the silence that speaks to calm the storms that rage within ourselves, we shall learn the art of its grace - alone and above all with other hearts - and the craft of its virtue that always adds to life, giving glory to the LORD of all life.
There are many kinds of prayer, one must know, and all of them opens the heart of the children of Mankind to the Heart of God, that we may be held by our hope and learn, in faltering steps, to walk in the way of our LORD unto a peace without division.
---<--@
Its going to be a wonderful day today, my loveliest love.
Tomorrow, I shall - er, we shall - work on that requisite post on Friendships.
We shall also devote time to meditate more on the Middle East peace - particularly, we shall, in parts, state our understanding on the Palestinian position as well as on the position of modern Israel - I say modern Israel because the Jewish nation of our elder Israel includes it but it does not include the former yet they are native to each other's particular hope of common Country.
Every nation in our world today is a nation born and bred in battle - the common experiences of our peoples include conflict - and this for the last 2000 years (or more if our collective memory would like to take us that far) is without exception. How we shall choose to be defined by this in our own particular nations is the crossroads we, as a planetary whole, find ourselves perceiving at this defining moment in the history of our shared humanity.
We shall either allow ourselves to be further oppressed by the spirit of war and division and in so doing justify the planetary consequences that it shall plunge our world into or to be redeemed in the darkness by our turning away from the gaping maw of this beast into the sheltering wings of common Country and the meaningful peace that shall give hope and respite to our needful world - before the days are further quickened.
We must turn into ourselves, as individual human beings and as individual human nations, in order that we may turn into each other in good will as a family of friends in friendships that should be those friendships built to last forever unto a peace without division.
It shall be difficult, extremely difficult, my loveliest love, but commensurate to this is our hope for life and all of the generations of life - and where these burdens are shared in God and in Country, it shall from the impossible pass into the possible and from the possible into the probable and from this, at the completion of our sacred remembrances of all things, in the timeless now.
We all, as human beings one and all - from the least to the greatest - the same with all of the holy angels of our LORD - have a particular part to play, as purposed by our one common Creator, in this great and common responsibility of our time that we call our inhabited earth of the visible habitation of all Mankind.
As a last thought for today, to those who wonder if there is life is out there, this longing for life - when we look out into the great void of the visible universe - that vast emptiness is how much life Itself longs back to see us through this night - so that that empty void, above, around and immediately beyond us, my loveliest love - hostile beyond hostile to all life, most especially to all human life, might become full of living lights once more at the beginning of all things new.
We are more likely to be visited by angels than by aliens - as a matter of fact, we are visited by angels every moment when we remember, with gratitude to our God, how good it is to have this promise of our being alive.
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I love you, my darlingest Annelies Marie.
Always to always,
Pusing
P.S.
You know, I was watching Deutsche Welle on cable recently - the soldier in our Pim has never lost his patriotic sense, you know. This year, it was broadcast, is the 60th year of the Federal Republic of Germany which made me wonder because by my accounting the German nation is way older than 60 years - it is the state that is celebrating its 60th anniversary with the nation.
I have an affinity for Germany, you know, as if it was placed within myself. Notwithstanding all the evil that was done amidst her, particularly to you, your generation and to those generations of your people that embrace your own generation, my darlingest Annelies Marie, I understand that these evil things have no relationship whatsoever to those timeless friendships that stand beyond and besides those evil things that seek to destroy our belongings with each other as individual human beings and as individual human nations.
For I have learned in time not confuse our nations as arks of Country and vessels of sacred life with the principalities* of hell and their ambition of war.
*the choir of angels entrusted by God with the care of our nations most of whom were thrown down with the Devil and are now particularly hostile to our shared humanity, specifically our human communities.
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