Why does Your God remain silent in this Corona crisis?

This week I received this email from someone:

Dear Frenkie, Every day I check your blog to see if there is any message from God in this crisis. But every day in vain.Why does your god or God remain silent right now?

With kind regards, W.R.

I replied that in many blogs attention has been paid to Mother Nature's response to irresponsible mankind and also to viral and bacterial epidemics.

But I asked the writer of this mail whether I could use this (anonymized) mail in a new blog. That was all right with W.R.
This mail set me thinking. So herewith.

I went through all the blogs and then I specially made two labels (tabs) that give easier access to those blogs. These are "Mother Nature responds to inexcusable behaviour" (24 blogs) and "Viral and bacterial epidemics" (6 blogs). They can be found on the website version of the blogs at Labels, which is a kind of table of contents for the blogspot. But there is another thing why I did not especially hurry up in this whole crisis. I had asked My God some years ago why no more attention was paid to crisis and threats and disasters, and I got an answer to that.

Check https://watchthegod-english.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-future-having-more-to-offer-than.html 

So I just left it like this. Still, I want to thank W.R. It is a wake up call that has forced me to make the blogspot more accessible to the blogs that deal with the great crisis in our experience. Top!

Would You like to comment on this?

My good son, who want to hear let them hear and who want to see, let them see. There are indeed many blogs that cover this topic. The Corona crisis fits in perfectly with this, in that sense your comment is quite sufficient. I do propose to start a series of blogs about the moral and practical consequences of such an epidemic but in a while. Of course We like to comfort and there is now confusion and fear. Although every person now also sees what a special and inspiring things are happening among men, something that the spiritual world was expecting with great confidence.

W.R. is blessed for the mail.

My blessings to you all

No 474

 

Enjoying beauty is a form of truth, is living in truth (Do You want to talk to me, I asked God? 2)

I had once an extensive conversation with God and this was one of the topics.
 

You enjoy the beauty of the world, of nature, of beautiful things, of antiques, of colours, of music. And luckily many people do, but not all.

Let us take a more detailed look at beauty, My Son, for We are going to discuss a great truth that many believers, especially those who do not have an eye for the beauty of life, will not like.

My statement is that someone who intensely enjoys beauty lives in truth just as much as someone who believes intensely.

This is challenging. So people who believe nothing but enjoy the beauty in life are no less worthy than people who believe in God and the spiritual world but who have no eye for the beauty on earth.

Are believing in God and having eye for beauty than equal quantities, equally important, aren’t they inferior to each other? That's right. In the spiritual world, God has just as much a place for someone who intensely enjoyed beauty such as an artist, a musician or an interior designer even though they were notorious atheists as It has for a pastor, an iman or a priest, even though they were by no means aesthetes.

For enjoying and having an eye for beauty is enjoying a very important characteristic of God, namely the creation of beauty. So enjoying beauty is enjoying a truth from God. Enjoying beauty is therefore living in truth, something believers do claim.

Meanwhile, those who do not believe anything and have no eye for beauty are equally blessed and equally welcome in the spiritual world. Because maybe they also live in truth, because they are capable of loving, for example?

My blessings to you all

No 473

God has many other things to do (Do You want to talk to me, I asked God, 1)

I was cycling home from work and it was storming and I felt bored a bit. A whole trip to go, I didn't want to think, the environment was what it was, I was cycling fast against the wind and I didn't want to pray either. So I asked God, would You like to talk to me, would You tell me a story? Of course I heard right away

Please My son, I always want to talk to you.

(When I got home, I had topics for six blogs. So now the first one)

I said to God, I would really like to know what You think about this, to be busy day and night with such a nuisance as I am. Oh no, of course you don't think so. I will get a very loving answer and that I must not name myself in this way: that I am a good person. But I hope for You that You also have other things to do and You don’t have to be busy with me only and stuff like that day and night. But how intensively are you actually dealing with me, because that seems frank to me, very boring and unpleasant for you.

My son, nothing what I do with you is boring or unpleasant. It is all a beautiful and wonderful task. I enjoy you, when you are lovingly active, or socially or when you feel calmly inside or live consciously or when you are open to me. Then I enjoy it all deeply.

I am working with you in attention, seeing everything and without judgment or impatience, if you are fickle, self-centered, short-sighted or primitive. Then I look at everything with attention.

But it is true that I am not busy with you all day long. Only three percent of My time I am actively involved with you and 97% of My time with other important matters.

That means that I do other things and continue to pay attention to you somewhere in an important corner of My consciousness. You can compare it, and I know you are not mistaken with this example, when a person walks with his dog in nature. Sometimes you are really occupied with your dog, but usually with other things, such as thinking, reflecting on events of the day, enjoying the beauty of nature, of a tree, of a flower, and somewhere in a corner of your consciousness you hold watch your dog.

And I don't mean some people who keep on pulling on their dog's leash all the time or yelling at their dog what they may and may not do. No, more the way you used to walk your dog, he ran free, you let him go his way, and very occasionally you actively interfered with him. Like now, now that I talk to you. So don't blame Me for this comparison and understand it in the right perspective. With all due respect to dogs, but I compare the relationship between My God and Its human being only in terms of attention with that of a human who walks with his dog.

I understand it correctly now God, I do not misunderstand. And what do You do with the other 97% if I may ask.

You  may so, My son, and you get a partial answer.

One half of the remaining time I am concerned with matters related to the earth, with fellow Sparks of God on earth, not all but according to Higher goals and plans, that is how We work for you all. And I am busy with the other spiritual beings around the earth, such as the guardian angels, the spirits of areas on earth and the devas of animals and plants.

The other half of the remaining time I am busy with things that you cannot comprehend, that cannot be explained to man. Take the simple comparison that it was also difficult for Einstein to explain his thoughts about the theory of relativity to a six-year-old boy who is just taking math lessons. It makes no sense, and it is not possible.

In the meantime, I am so competent, let's use this modern earthly term, that I will be fully available any time you want or need Me. Trust that.

Be blessed for your question.

My blessings to you all

No 472

You serve God as well by serving man (Ramakrishna)

I had been very busy for a couple of weeks and I felt that I was not very concerned about God and praying and meditating. At a certain point I said to God: "I have neglected you very much lately."
And then I heard:

My son, you have not neglected Me. You are now in a period that you are dealing with Me through men. All your work, all your energy, all your attention paid to your work, to the people around you, you spend it on Me and I see that. And you have done a lot for Me, My son, lately, do feel reassured.

And afterwards my feeling of default was completely gone. I felt so blessed and so calm and treated with a great love. Oh, how I would grant everyone that peace, that trust, that closeness to God. Everyone has the love of God, I now know that. But also feeling it, really feeling it and feeling loved and accepted by a nearby God who does not judge but cherishes, who does not separate but binds, who is not far away but as near as your own body.

Thank You, My God, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

Be blessed, my son.

 
My blessings to you all

No 471

The environmental crisis and a “lonely crying in the wilderness”

 

My God, may I ask You. I read an interview with Wouter van Dieren, artist and journalist among others, who is a member of the Club of Rome and co-founder of Milieudefensie, a Dutch protest organization about the state of nature. More than 40 years ago he proclaimed what the world is beginning to realize nowadays that we are seriously destroying nature. Would You like to comment on this, is it not all too late and did mankind listen enough to him and his fellowmen?

My son, he has indeed proved to be  “lonely crying in the wilderness” and his approach to involve large organizations and the business community in environmental problems has not been sufficiently followed. Wouter van Dieren is a visionary and rightly seriously concerned about nature and how mankind is dealing with it. If mankind had listened more to him and his assiciates, the situation was not that dramatic. But it's never too late. Even though a lot of beauty is going to be lost now. And mankind is only nowadays slowly realizing how to change, she could not realize this before. Mankind and nature are facing one of the greatest transformations in the history of planet earth and this transformation will be accompanied by extreme crises and destruction.

See also blog https://watchthegod-english.blogspot.com/2013/05/mankind-is-allowed-to-comply-with.html

Well the free will of man is holy to Us, but mother nature pays a very high price for this. How large is the grief of many, in the spiritual world as well, about the loss of much natural beauty and the disappearance from earth of many plant and animal species that have been stayed here for millions of years! And how long will mankind need to clean up all the mess!

Yet you should comfort yourself with the remark of the anthroposophiste you once met. And who, after your sighing, how horrible it was that an animal species died out, very sincerely exclaimed "what are you thinking materialisticly!"

For she articulated how the extinction of an animal species is merely a shedding of a garment by the spiritual animal species. How matter follows the mind and not the other way around. How the spiritual world continues on its path to eternity and is hardly affected when its earthly counterpart disappears. Think of it as an old piece of clothing that you throw away after you have worn it, you are throwing it away with a certain sadness but you are done with it, it is worn out.  It is not the whole story but still it articulates another perspective!

Wouter van Dieren and his associates are blessed. Eventually mankind will listen to him and his associates, but unwillingly not willingly.

My blessings to you all

No  470

An unbelieving person is sometimes closer to God than a believer (Jacques Suurmond)

My God, I read an old interview with this journalist in which he states that people who do not believe and do not have such a clear picture of God are sometimes closer to God than people who believe, who are more concerned with their image of God than with God Itself. Would You like to comment on this?
 

That’s allright.

God sees in the hearts of people and in their minds, and then it can turn out there that an unbelieving person is more open to the mystery of life, to the intuition, to the signals that God gives through his heart than a believer is.
For example, a believer can be very concerned with the fear of hell, of a punishing God, of the imperfections of life and, therefore not acknowledging God's love for man.

But we compare apples to oranges. It remains a fact that an unbeliever misses the basis of existence, the core of life, the great purpose on earth, namely living in and from God and recognizing God as the only Cause. That is really something.

So you can easily compare a loving believer with a loveless unbeliever as well, then you won't be happy with the differences either.

The moral of the story is that man is more different than he seems to be, that the opposition of believer and unbeliever is more nuanced than people think and that God welcomes loving unbelievers with more joy than hateful believers. For sure.

But let the moral of this story be that you should never compare people to each other, because always will be someone the victim. Leave man alone and leave the estimating weighting of his life to God.

Meanwhile, Jacques Suurmond is blessed for his openness.

My blessings to you all

No 469

Why do You remain silent? (Psalm 22)

Again I was struck by doubt. Did I really have the capacity to hear the voice of my Spark of God? My doubt became very strong, I was worried and I really wondered if I was doing the right things. Last week on Monday night I went to bed and I nearly did hear the voice, "I don't hear You well”, I said," but the voice became less strong every second. And at a certain moment I heard nothing at all, again that deadly silence, whatever I said or tried or listened to, my conversations had stopped and I experienced what almost every person on earth is going through. You talk to God but you don't hear anything back.

Because it was the second time in a row and because I felt this was more intense and more intrusive I got overwhelmed by a very big feeling of unrest. And I sighed even at some point within myself over all those years of writing the blogs “you just have played for god”.

I was shocked by myself and that sighing was accompanied by loss, loneliness, surprise and actually bewilderment. Could it be true that all those years of hard work were just an illusion and that everything was false? What if I had just played for God and invented everything out of myself and what if nothing was true? What if I didn't hear a Spark of God at all? What if I just made everything up for myself? Suppose  so, what would it turn out to be a disillusion!

Deadly silence inside me!

What had happened to me, what had I done, how come I did hear nothing at all?
If it was the voice of God why didn't I hear God anymore? What had happened, what had I done?
And if I made it up for myself, why didn't I manage to continue the conversation, why was there such a deadly silence? I didn't understand anything of it.

I was confused for a few days and then gradually recovered my balance. I accepted that there had to be a reason why this happened. I accepted that I didn't hear anything, like most people do after all. I accepted that it would remain always this way. I accepted that I might not know for the rest of my life why everything happened this way, why I had experienced this all those years, why it had stopped. I accepted that and was willing to leave it, just trust it and let everything rest. But even more happened last week.

I thought, what do I actually know, what can I build on, what do I know for sure about God? And then I felt that it was all right. It was enough that God existed, and that I was heard, day and night, as every person is heard. And I was happy with the will of God and with the laws of God, what else did I want? This was sufficient. This was good, this was our help and stay, everyone could build on this and hope for it. And I felt so comfortable and calm and grateful that God was there, purely this, this was enough, that God existed and kept an eye on us and that we lived within God's creation, that we were God's creation, and that God had some meaning for us.

But something else happened that I did not expect at all. I was suddenly so grateful that I could see God's creation, that I had eyes, and could see the beauty of nature, of the evening light, of a beautiful avenue of trees, of the beauty of the world, and that I could see this all. It overwhelmed me so much that I was completely happy and grateful and I was very happy about it. And I was also deeply grateful that I had a healthy body, that I could move, that everything worked so well and that I could do whatever I want with this beautiful, healthy, strong and energetic body. And for days I have been happy with the will of God and with the laws of God and with my seeing of creation and with my ability to move and do everything.

But beware of the dog, I gradually started to suffer more from the uncertainty and loneliness of a life without the trusted voice of God. Coincidentally, I would stay for a few days in the Trappist monastery in Zundert and the first service I heard Psalm 22:

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.

………………………………

But you, O Lord, do not be far off!
O you my help, come quickly to my aid!

And every minute I was in Zundert for a longer time, I became more upset and down and deeply unhappy that I no longer heard God. I no longer heard anything and attended the services, the night service, the zen meditation and I started to miss so terribly the contact with God, missed so terribly that I no longer had a conversation with God and that I lived in a distressing, terrifying deafening silence, whatever I said or asked or cried or waited. I felt like the abandoned agitated person in Psalm 22. My god why have you forsaken me?

It became more and more unbearable, and I was just able to dedicate my suffering to Christ and say “I give my suffering to You Christ, at least now I feel for a moment how You have suffered and my suffering is still nothing, it is not as bad with me as with You”.

But it seemed to me that there was no greater suffering than 8 ½ years of hearing the voice of God and then suddenly for more than 11 days hearing nothing and I feared it would stay that way for the rest of my life. My god my god why have You forsaken me? ”

On Saturday morning, December 7, after more than eleven days of total radio silence, total desolation, I suddenly hear the voice of God again. When I ask "do You want to bless these monks, I hear "they are blessed My Son" and I cry and cry and cry (in silence) and thank and thank and thank and I am so happy so happy so happy that I hear the voice of God again and I ask: “my God I know You didn't leave me, but why didn't I hear you anymore? It became too difficult, it became too bad, it became unbearable ”.

And God said:

My son, We have seen you these twelve days, your willingness to leave everything and to cherish life and later We have seen you suffer, but it could not be otherwise. A combination of necessary changes, of regularities and an ordeal made you have lived in oblivion for twelve days, not in Our eyes but in your experience. Know that it is over, and that these types of periods will remain the exception. And you have stood the test well. You have endured everything well, you have not blamed Me, you have accepted everything, you have tried to cherish the right spiritual perspective of trust and you have also experienced your humanity in the loneliness, doubt, anxiety, confusion, suffering. And you have dedicated your suffering to the suffering of Christ. That's how We found it complete.
Be blessed, my son.

My blessings to you all

No 468