My God, a columnist in my newspaper* wrote:
"Blessed are those who have people around who suffer from their suffering"
Well, this man is a rabid atheist who can't resist fulminating against faith. At the same time, as a nursing home doctor, he has a very big heart and a lot of love for fellow human beings. And writes beautifully about life and suffering of man and he does so with great compassion. This article is about the suffering person and ways to relieve or shorten that suffering. And he ends with this sentence, which really moved me.
Would You like to comment on this?
My son, I love to. For the spiritual world loves people who have their hearts in the right place and are listening to it as much as possible. This doctor witnesses a lot of suffering and especially among sick and old people. And because he does not believe, he seeks comfort insofar as there is in earthly and human matters. And this is one.
"Blessed are those who have people around them who suffer from their suffering"
The man who is allowed to experience this in his suffering experiences the love of people who care about him. A great good and a great happiness, which not everyone has. There are many people suffering who have no one who feels sorry for them.
Yet this can also be a merit of that person himself: if one gives a lot of love to one's fellow man, one may also be able to get a lot of love back in need.
And there's another important thing this columnist isn't working on. One can also sympathize and pity someone by praying. And especially people who have no one and yet suffer can benefit greatly from people who pray for them.
And fortunately, there are also many people on earth who pray for the suffering man in general and thus leave it to the spiritual world for whom that prayer is then intended. And in previous blogs I have already explained
(see https://watchthegod-english.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-influence-of-praying-on-world-and_30.html)
that it is not the case that God only takes action when prayers are offered. But more that prayer creates an extra channel through which the spiritual world can mean more to those on earth who need it.
In response to a quote from an atheist columnist, God says: give love to the other. And I also say: pray, pray, pray, even if it is for strangers, for disasters or unknown misery. Each prayer is an additional tool for the spiritual world to relieve and to support earthly man.
And for those who pray may know: every prayer is a flower on your path after death to your spiritual destiny.
Blessed is Bert Keizer.
My blessings to you all.
No 550
*Bert Keizer, Trouw, 31 March 2023
