We are on the verge of a new age in which everything will be possible. Anything anyone wants will become a reality. The most amazing lives we can imagine are waiting for us to rise up and live them. On the other hand, we are still sinners who have yet to be chosen as the elect who will enter the kingdom of heaven at the end of the age. We must be careful, considerate, and keep our feet on the ground so to speak. This is more difficult for me than it is for anyone else. I have my ways of being humble. For instance, I’ll write the rest of this journal entry without using the words, “I,” or, “me.”
The birds of the air take flight for granted, as does a certain human being. For the birds of the air it is as natural as breathing or hopping along the ground. They fly automatically, wings working unconsciously. They need not focus or make a conscious effort, it simply happens when they want to go. Human beings do many things automatically, behaviors and activities we’ve grown accustomed to that have become second nature. Walking, talking, et cetera. On this eve of a new age we should prepare for other ways and actions to be automatic. Honor is a quality that will become second nature. We shall honor one another by the way we think about, speak to, and treat other people. The kingdom will be made up of marvelous lands and skies full of wonder and honor. For instance, when one goes to a birthday party it is customary to give that person for whom the party is being thrown a gift, and also to be kind and attentive to the person as a way of honoring his or her birth and life. The person is celebrated on that day, every year, by family and friends. In the next age everyone who makes it there will be honored and celebrated every day as a matter of course. This should be an automatic way of life, and it won’t take much effort since we’ll all be overflowing with energy and shining love.
Another quality that will be automatic is contentment. Even without getting whatever they want people will feel perfectly content at all times. Hunger, thirst, impatient wants and desires will no longer exist when everyone feels over the moon fulfilled and satisfied. You may ask, “What is the point of life if we’re already content? The answer, to become even more content, to explore the explosive cores and shimmering outer reaches of contentment is our purpose.
Many amazing things shall be automatic for us. We shouldn’t get too far ahead of ourselves. There needs to be a sort of conditioning to prepare us for such a lovely state of being. By now we have all been purified by holy fire but it’s up to us to stay pure, to abstain from sinful self-indulgences, to say no to ourselves when we start to do something we aught not to do or not do something we aught. Fasting and sincere prayer are good for the soul, whether Jesus Christ returns soon or not. He says in the scripture He is coming soon, but that might be more relative to his eternal life than to our mortal ones.
This may seem a little off topic but yours truly decided to go and visit his mother soon. Said person hasn’t seen her in a while due to, well, a lot of reasons. Yours truly is looking forward to the visit, albeit cautiously optimistically. His mother is a nice person, and he misses her. Mothers are an important part of the family unit, so important is their love for young children. They are the first we learn and know of love, this sweet doting person who takes care of us before we can take care of ourselves. Growing up the relationship shifts a great deal, but yours truly would like to think the initial love and care remains, and the sweet protective lady still feels the same for her precious not-so-little son.
He is afraid that if he flies there his mom, not seeing a car in the driveway, will ask him how he got there and he, not being one to lie, will cryptically tell her he arrived buy other means, to which she’ll demand to know by what other means did he arrive, and this may go on and on for the duration of the visit. He is hoping a simple subject change to the current events of his siblings’ lives might suffice to put the question to rest. His mom is a wonderful person, but one’s enemies shall be the members of one’s own household. If she discovered he could fly she would tell every neighbor on the block and then call the local press.
In closing, yours truly has been attempting to be worthy of his divine gift. To be airborne implies one must be noble and kind by nature. Nobody wants a tyrant flying over his head. To be meek and gentle as well as tough and resolute is my goal as we journey on hopefully toward the skies.
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