The Vibrant Channeled Creator

“Is there ardor, zeal, passion for the Lord and for the Gospel in us? Or is there something that easily crumbles? And then, are we stones, not stumbling blocks, but the kind with which the Church can be constructed? Do we work for unity, are we interested in others, especially in the weakest? Finally, thinking of the pebble: Are we aware of our littleness? And above all, in our weakness, do we entrust ourselves to the Lord who accomplishes great things through those who are humble and sincere?”
 
Pope Francis

To keep your mind in harmony with the forces I am providing to you, it’s necessary to balance the unexpected powers it now possesses. Today, your thoughts are similar to a wild purebred horse. They are scattered in all directions.
These thoughts are fleeting, so brief that it is hard to be aware of them. Multiple and disordered, they delay the fulfillment of your projects. To succeed in life, you have to put the break on this raging horse, representative of your thoughts. With your willpower, you can develop your mind like any other muscle in your body!
We are all born with a potential gift: The Will
What is the difference between a common man with weak thoughts, and the powerful influence of a celebrated man? Well, Simply the intense development of a penetrating and dynamic will. The real power is only acquired by applying human willpower, reinforced by the evolution of the Forces.

1st task:
1 Performing a thorough and complete analysis of yourself.
2 What are you thinking about?
3 Are your thoughts clear and sincere?
4 Be honest. You are the witness to your introspection. Don’t worry.
5 You should know that even the most brilliant person has, deep down, old habits and more or less unhealthy reactions that, once in awhile, show up and make him overreact so badly .
Don’t ignore these habits and reactions! On the contrary, search them out as calmly as possible!
You can compare these old habits and bad reactions to real spider webs that obstruct your mind, and in certain circumstances even paralyze it.
You are the only person able to look inside yourself. Yes, you!!!

Diagnosis
by Sharon Olds
By the time I was six months old, she knew something

was wrong with me. I got looks on my face

she had not seen on any child

in the family, or the extended family,

or the neighborhood. My mother took me int

o the pediatrician with the kind hands,

a doctor with a name like a suit size for a wheel:

Hub Long. My mom did not tell him

what she thought in truth, that I was Possessed.

It was just these strange looks on my face—

he held me, and conversed with me

chatting as one does with a baby, and my mother

said, She’s doing it now! Look!

She’s doing it now! and the doctor said,

What your daughter has

is called a sense

of humor. Ohhh, she said, and took me

back to the house where that sense would be tested

and found to be incurable.

“Diagnosis” from One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds, copyright © 2008 by Sharon Olds. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, and imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

FRIDAY JUNE 30TH, 2023
 
“The secret of the lives of the saints is their familiarity and confidence with God, which grew within them and made it easier for them to recognize what was pleasing to Him. This familiarity overcomes the fear or the doubt that His will is not for our good..”
 
Pope Francis

WEDNESDAY JUNE 28TH, 2023
 
“We must rediscover every day, with wonder and gratitude, that the Christian faith is the certainty of the friendship of a God who “primates” us, who educates us and who constantly accompanies us in a close way.
 
For this reason, the most specific aspect of all the Church’s aid institutions is not simply the humanitarian effort that springs from a generous heart. What is truly original in our aid is the charity of Jesus Christ that urges us, that love that precedes us and invites us to confess God the Father, the principle of all good; Jesus Christ, our Brother, who has redeemed us; the Holy Spirit who guides the Church, creates communion and guides humanity towards its fullness.”
 
Pope Francis

It’s the birthday of the man who wrote, “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (books by this author), born in Geneva in 1712. He left home at 16 and wandered around Europe for the next 14 years. He moved to Paris when he was 30, and took up with a group of philosophers. He also took up with Thérèse Le Vasseur, a semi-literate laundry maid at his hostel; the two began a lifelong relationship that produced five children, according to Rousseau. He placed all of them into orphanages.
Rousseau was well versed in music, and wrote ballets and operas; he could easily have been successful as a composer, but the stage made his Swiss Calvinist sensibilities uneasy. One day he was walking to visit his friend and fellow philosopher Denis Diderot, who was in jail, and he had an epiphany: modern progress had corrupted rather than improved mankind. He became famous overnight upon publication of his essay A Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts (1750). The essay informed nearly everything else he wrote, and eventually he would turn away completely from music and the theater to focus on literature.
In Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755) he continued to explore the theme that civilization had led to most of what was wrong with people: living in a society led to envy and covetousness; owning property led to social inequality; possessions led to poverty. Society exists to provide peace and protect those who owned property, and therefore government is unfairly weighted in favor of the rich. In it, he wrote: “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.” His next two books, a criticism of the educational system (Émile) and a treatise of political philosophy (The Social Contract), both published in 1762, caused such an uproar that he fled France altogether. His work would prove inspirational to the leaders of the French Revolution, and they adopted the slogan from The Social Contract: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
He grew increasingly paranoid in his later years, convinced that his friends were plotting against him. He spent some time in England with David Hume, but his persecution complex eventually alienated him from most of his associates, and he found comfort only with Thérèse, whom he finally married in 1768.

From the Poetry Almanac, 6/28, 2023 Garrison Keillard

TUESDAY JUNE 27TH, 2023

 
“Jesus repeats to his disciples three different times: “have no fear” (Mt 10:26, 28, 31).
 
Shortly prior to this, he had spoken to them about the persecutions they would have to undergo for the Gospel, a fact that is still a reality. Since its beginning, in fact, the Church has experienced, together with joys – of which she has had many – many persecutions. It seems paradoxical: the proclamation of the Kingdom of God is a message of peace and justice, founded on fraternal charity and on forgiveness; and yet it meets with opposition, violence, persecution.
 
Jesus, however, says not to fear, not because everything will be all right in the world, no, but because we are precious to his Father and nothing that is good will be lost.”
 
Pope Francis

God took me to get new glasses at a wonderful eye salon on Warren Street in Hudson New York!

MONDAY JUNE 26TH, 2023
 
“So let us ask ourselves: I, what do I fear? Not having what I like? Not reaching the goals society imposes? The judgement of others? Or rather of not pleasing the Lord, and not putting his Gospel in first place? Mary, ever Virgin, Mother most Wise, help us to be wise and courageous in the choices we make.”
 
Pope Francis

SUNDAY JUNE 25TH, 2023
 
“Those who allow themselves to be drawn by the love of Christ, thus becoming his disciples, also experience the desire to bring to everyone the mercy and compassion flowing from his heart. Missionary work does not come naturally, for we always tend to prefer life to be comfortable, with everything in order.
 
It was necessary, then, for the Holy Spirit to come and make the tremendous “disorder” that was the day of Pentecost. This is because, in order to initiate missionary outreach, to create the life of the Church, the Spirit is first the creator of confusion and then draws out harmony. Both are of the Holy Spirit.”
 
Pope Francis

Sunday Morning Early
by David Romtvedt

My daughter and I paddle red kayaks

across the lake. Pulling hard

we slip easily through the water.

Far from either shore, it hits me

that my daughter is a young woman

and suddenly everything is a metaphor

for how short a time we are granted:

the red boats on the blue-black water,

the russet and gold of late summer’s grasses,

the empty sky. We stop and listen to the stillness.

I say, “It’s Sunday, and here we are

in the church of the out of doors,”

then wish I’d kept quiet. That’s the trick in life—

learning to leave well enough alone.

Our boats drift to where the chirring

of grasshoppers reaches us from the rocky hills.

A clap of thunder. I want to say something truer

than I love you. I want my daughter to know that,

through her, I live a life that was closed to me.

I paddle up, lean out, and touch her hand.

I start to speak then stop.

“Sunday Morning Early” by David Romtvedt from Dilemmas of the Angels. © Louisiana State University Press, 2017.

God the Rock of Salvation
71st Psalm

 In You, O Lord, I put my trust;Let me never be put to shame.2 Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape;Incline Your ear to me, and save me.3 Be my [a]strong refuge,To which I may resort continually;You have given the commandment to save me,For You are my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.5 For You are my hope, O Lord God;You are my trust from my youth.6 By You I have been [b]upheld from birth;You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.My praise shall be continually of You.
7 I have become as a wonder to many,But You are my strong refuge.8 Let my mouth be filled with Your praise And with Your glory all the day.
9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age;Do not forsake me when my strength fails.10 For my enemies speak against me;And those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together,11 Saying, “God has forsaken him;Pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.”
12 O God, do not be far from me;O my God, make haste to help me!13 Let them be [c]confounded and consumed Who are adversaries of my life;Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor Who seek my hurt.
14 But I will hope continually,And will praise You yet more and more.15 My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day,For I do not know their limits.16 I will go in the strength of the Lord God;I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.
17 O God, You have taught me from my youth;And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.18 Now also when I am old and gray headed,O God, do not forsake me,Until I declare Your strength to this generation,Your power to everyone who is to come.
19 Also Your righteousness, O God, is [d]very high,You who have done great things;O God, who is like You?20 You, who have shown me great and severe troubles,Shall revive me again,And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.21 You shall increase my greatness,And comfort me on every side.
22 Also with the lute I will praise You—And Your faithfulness, O my God!To You I will sing with the harp,O Holy One of Israel.23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You,And my soul, which You have redeemed.24 My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long;For they are confounded,For they are brought to shame Who seek my hurt.
Footnotes

1. Psalm 71:3 Lit. rock of refuge or rock of habitation
2. Psalm 71:6 sustained from the womb
3. Psalm 71:13 ashamed
4. Psalm 71:19 great, lit. to the height of heaven

THURSDAY JUNE 22TH, 2023
“The Eucharist calls us to love God before everything and our brothers and sisters. This Bread is the Sacrament par excellence of love. Christ offers Himself and breaks Himself for us, and asks us to do likewise, so that our life might become bread that feeds our brothers and sister”
Pope Francis

I want you to know that you are the only person I ever want to be with. I would rather cry with you than laugh with anyone else because even crying with you makes me happy. I love you. Your touch does to me what a pebble would do when dropped into the calm waters of a lake. You send ripples through my body and my soul. I love you sweetie. Your hugs give me weak knees and your kisses make me shiver. Thinking about you makes me breathless and missing you gives me a fever. You seem to be bad for my health but that’s alright. I will still hug you, kiss you and miss you with all my might. I love you. Your love is not one of the things I need to survive – it is the ONLY thing I need to survive. I love you baby.
from Keanu Reeves 6/20/23

Keanu respects humans. He cherishes equality, humor, truth, co-creation and negotiation.

His heart is open.

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John Wesley (1703-1791), English revival preacher who was also active in North America. With his brother Charles, he was the founder of the Methodist movement. Woodcut engraving, published in 1877.

Garrison Keillor June 17, 2023
ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO – 2017
It’s the birthday of religious leader John Wesley, born in Lincolnshire, England (1703). He was saved from a fire when he was five years old, and later believed that God had saved him for a purpose. He became a priest and joined a religious study group that other people nicknamed the “Methodists,” because of their emphasis on methodical rules of living: they prayed and fasted according to strict schedules.
Wesley was the most methodical of them all. He wrote in his diary: “Have I prayed with fervor? Have I after every pleasure immediately given thanks? Have I been or seemed angry? Has good will been and appeared the spring of all my actions toward others?” At first he asked these questions of himself each day, and then he began to ask them each hour, keeping track of his answers.
In 1735, Wesley moved to the United States to serve as the priest for a settlement in Georgia. But the settlers didn’t much care for his methodical ways of living, and they ran him out of town.
He returned to England and began to travel around the wilderness on horseback, preaching to all the common people he came across: factory workers, miners and farmers. He preached in rented halls, on street corners, and in fields. He ultimately rode about 250,000 miles through the English, Scottish, and Irish countryside, preaching 42,000 sermons along the way. He said, “Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.”
Wesley was always a member of the Anglican Church, and his only idea was to create small groups within the Anglican Church to meet regularly for prayer and Bible study. But when Methodists missionaries traveled to the United States, their ideas took hold, and their followers considered themselves members of a new religion. They appointed their own bishops and ministers and created their own church laws and traditions, separate from the Church of England. The Methodist Church became the church of the colonists on the frontier, as well as African Americans, both slave and free.
By 1850, the United Methodist Church held more members than any other Christian denomination in the United States. It was thought of as the most mainstream of all denominations. A convert needed only to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God and everyone’s personal savior. Methodists believed that all other questions about Christianity were up for discussion. Wesley said, “As to all opinions which do not strike at the root of Christianity, we think and let think.”
Methodists have established more colleges, hospitals, child-care facilities, and retirement homes than any other Protestant denomination. A 19th-century Methodist preacher named William Booth noticed that his lower-class converts were often turned away from respectable churches, so he founded the Salvation Army to reach the poor and needy. Methodists also started Goodwill Industries in 1902, with stores across the country that employ people with disabilities to repair furniture and mend old clothes to be sold at a discount.
It was also Methodists who started the temperance movement, and a Methodist founded the YMCA. Methodists were a big part of the abolitionist movement, and the anti-segregation movement, and it was a Methodist who signed Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers, integrating major league baseball for the first time.
Americans who were brought up in the Methodist Church include Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley, as well as Barry Goldwater, Walter Mondale, George McGovern, Bob Dole, and Hillary Clinton.