The message of Ascension Day: we are pilgrims

My God, may I ask You?

Today in church during the sermon I heard these words. Although I haven't taken any notes, so I can't quote the priest* verbatim, it comes down to this:

The message of the Lord's Ascension is that we are pilgrims. We are on our way, we are in this world, but not of this world. Man has the promise of Christ that He will always be with us until the end of the world. But that man must regard this whole world as a place of pilgrimage, that we must not lose ourselves in the delusions of the day, that we are on our way, and that the promise of Christ is that spiritual life, eternal life, is the goal.

It is precisely during this period that it touches me very much. Around me and in myself, I see us losing ourselves in the fears and anxieties of life, the war in Ukraine, the destruction of the environment, the discord in society, and so on. And suddenly through these words of the monsignor that we are pilgrims, I make contact with You again, with the example of Christ, with the promise of eternal life. I realize again that this earthly valley of tears, which lasts only a maximum of 90 years for every human being, is only a path and not the goal. My heart is touched in this sermon, in this mass, and I reconnect with our real purpose on earth: never, ever forget that we are children of God, that an eternal and special life awaits us, that all this is only temporary and that we must remember it every time. 

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My son, man is a pilgrim, life on earth is only a beginning. The promise of the beauty, happiness, and perfection of eternal life make up for everything, truly everything you experience in difficulties, misery, and sorrows. Once you have arrived in the spiritual world after this temporary and brief phase on earth, all negativity, all sadness, all imperfections, all blockages are swept away. And your long and beautiful path is then perfectly paved to the house of God.

Ascension Day is the most beautiful holiday on earth. The Christ has lived for your future, lifted up the earth, paved the way to eternal life. The son of God has triumphed over the evil forces on earth and belittled them, enslaved them, dealt them a very great blow. Ascension Day is the greatest success experience of the greatest spiritual being that the earth has ever visited and was truly a great sacrifice. A son of God who immerses Himself in man and is willing to become the son of men. 

Great commission, great task, great sacrifice. 

And the priest calls you to remember that on this day.   

The monsignor is blessed.  

My blessings to you all

*Monsignor Ad van Luyn, Emeritus Bishop of Rotterdam

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Only you can change your thoughts (Paramahansa Yogananda)

Tiny Buddha‏@tinybuddha "Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them." ~Paramahansa Yogananda Retweet by F.Andries Oosterveen

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In honour of Ascension Day (symbol of the victory of the spiritual over the material, of God over the devil, of the eternal over the earthly evolution) I will comment on this.
Paramahanse Yogananda is a loving and great saint of the East.
His saying is a key to change.

The Catholics have an old saying: your first thought is from the devil, your second is yours.

So to say everything can come into your mind, and everything can give rise to it, a beautiful woman, a bad experience, a remark of a colleague, you name it, really everything. In fact your mind is just an antenna and you do not realize enough everything can come in. You are in touch with the whole world, an earthquake so the speak can lead to cold sweat on a sensitive person in Basingstoke-West.

But the point of this saying is. Are you going into this thought yes or no, are you grasping this thought, yes or no, are you getting attached to this thought, yes or no. And then the real issue will occur : then it is your thinking, then it will be part of your ego, then your will shall strengthen the process. And then the saying is in force. Your first thought is from the devil, your second is yours.
 
So the second and next thought is yours. That’s your responsibility, and there the whole process of own choices, willpower, self-will, free will, self-conceit and attachment gets its value. And in the spiritual world the free will of mankind is utterly cherished so this brings Us to:

"Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them"

So you for yourselves have to change your world of thoughts. No one else has the power to do it. One can try to influence you, manipulate you, inform you improperly, this all will be food for your thought, but at the end no one can call the shots of your thinking, and no one can really change your thinking, that’s up to you.

 Your choice for purity, for God, for your inner self, for your spiritual freedom, for your spiritual liberation, for your surrender to the eternal life, for your essential loving future in the spirit is all up to you.

And when I as “My God” of Frenkie are doing one thing to Frenkie it is this.
Showing him how he out of free will can choose for the Kingdom of God on earth. Showing him, that he for himself is asking for all the confrontations, corrections, suggestions, painful messages on his thinking, so that’s what I am giving him.

So now you all know for yourself you can choose for the Kingdom of God. Wonder then if this is what you want, really want, and then wonder what you are going to do about it? No one else can do it for you.
My blogs indeed have only one message. And here it is. To impress you on the promise of limitless happiness, endless possibilities and a pure and powerful inner life, but that’s only the case if you are wanting this. Otherwise We will wait a little bit more.

My blessing to you all

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