God will be there

Despise people and love them. They're devils. But in them you can also meet God (Dag Hammarskjöld)

I came across this fascinating quote in a newspaper article. Would You like to comment on it?

 I must want that, My son, because it's fascinating, for sure, this quote. All you have to do is see around you and in your inner self to see and experience that man has devilish qualities and also can behave regularly devilishly. Let's definitely not talk about the devil in this blog. But in this word devil and devilish behaviour is closed all the ignorant, thoughtless, self-centered and nonchalant behaviour of man.

However, let's meet God in the other, isn't that a wonderful topic for this blog?

"In them you can also meet God."

And this is always possible with everyone. Meeting God in the other. A nice look, a friendly nod, a human greeting, a listening ear, a nice gesture, a helping hand. And I'm positing one of the greatest truths on earth here: 

Every time you do this, with the other, God comes into your midst. What a promise, what a joy, what a hope, what a blessing, what a realization, what an experience. Every time, in a split second, God arrives in your midst.

There is no faith, no religion, no pastor, no prayer, no thought of God obliged. And this also applies to unbelievers, to notorious atheists, to all people on earth, from the least developed primal man to the most thoughtful president of a civilized country. If you do this, God will come into your midst. How easy can it be?  

Bye Hammarskjöld is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No 509

10 years of hearing the voice of God, a wonderful anniversary

My God, 10 years ago I first heard Your voice in a small chapel in Leiden. I experienced it was You, I knew it was special, and I didn't understand why I was allowed to go through this. By now I know that everyone can experience this, that it is possible. By now I understand that it will actually be the natural religion of the future, without the intervention of church rituals and pastors, just to be and communicate with the indwelling God.

What joy, what a promise, what a grace. I thank You for Your blessings, Your graces, Your corrections, but above all Your endless patience and love. For this I can say to the rest of the world, You should have chosen someone else, with more talents, more simplicity, more maturity. Anyway, obviously You choose to show your power and splendour especially with people who are nothing. You're great.

So many texts, so many visits from so many countries, I still find it special if thanks to the internet free and for nothing someone can read your words and indulge in them out there on a flat three high in the back in some suburb anywhere in the world. And, even if it's three visitors a day. That's nice. But sometimes there are 100 a day.

I thank You, I thank You, I thank You. That’s all there to say. And now You please?

My good son, I love silence more, as you know, so let's take this opportunity to entice fellow man to silence. For in silence God is found. Only when the noise and superficiality and the hassle of the world are put aside one can hear His God. How else could it be?

I thank you for your openness, your willingness, your vulnerability.

I thank you for your willingness to be quiet and really listen.

I did the rest. Keep it up, My son. 

Behold your servant, My God. 

 

Be blessed, good son. 

 

My blessings to you all

Nr. 508

Thoughtlessness, a root of evil

My God, I read the following in a column by Welmoed Vlieger*. She draws Arendt's vision from the last book by Hannah Arendt "The Life of the Mind". "The roots of evil are not a bad will or a moral depravity but thoughtlessness." She saw this not only in totalitarian regimes but also in Western culture where individualism ignores the other. 

Would You like to comment on this?

My son, there is much to be said about the causes of evil, and certainly that there is not one cause or right of evil to exist but there are many. Still, Hannah Arendt has a point. For bad will or moral depravity are clear and understandable causes of evil. But thoughtlessness is a hidden and veiled cause for a lot of unconscious and malicious behaviour and therefore for a lot of evil and a lot of suffering.

What is thoughtlessness else than that a person does not think about something or does something casual or without paying attention. And certainly then man does not pay attention to the consequences of his actions, for himself and for others. And isn't indifference a twin brother of thoughtlessness?

Thoughtlessness means that a man is without thoughts, is not reasonable, does not listen to his conscience, does not look after his fellow man, does not listen to his inner voice, is not interested in the suffering that results from this. 

But above all, thoughtlessness is a root of evil because God is excluded and the devil can go about his business. For your thinking thank you to God, your suffering to the exclusion of God.

So beware of thoughtlessness.

Hannah Arendt and Welmoed Vlieger are blessed. 

 

My blessings to you all

No 507

 

*Trouw 1^st of June 2021