Splintered Cross- Good Friday, 2023

A splinter from the corrupted wood of the Cross fell to the ground separating itself from the beam. And the miracle was that from this splinter there came a tree ... just a little tree, but a tree nonetheless - that for many years yielded a great healing to any pilgrim that came upon it.

Corduroy clouds emboldened a darkening sky and the forces were tensed: so opposed to one another, so polarised and conflicted, neither good nor evil could move forward, or backwards; but instead pressed face to face in a silent torsion of almighty will.

Make no mistake, the wayward evil was of no small measure. It had ridden the world shadowing the souls of nearly all but the children and the enlightened few.

The why’s and what-fors are crucial to understand in relation to these current times also. For this period began what was yet to be finished, and is ongoing - minds are still to be enlivened and souls freed from the selfishness that is the sloth of the soul.

As if in competition with one another, the hierarchies of demons and nefarious gods (who were not of Angelic resonance) were so persuaded by Christ’s presence they took on some of His countenance immediately.

Just prior to Golgotha Christ was barely sensed or recognised to the unenlightened forces above and beneath the earth. He simply was not seen. It was only when after passing through the portals to Hell and returning, that He was known in such a way they could not unsee or fail to recognise Him - whilst conversely, those of the faith lost their earthly sight ... of knowing Him by this standard, yet their inner visions developed deeply, with constant commune.

If an individual is given to demonic sway he experiences a great anguish when brought before Christ - Christ in name, Christ through action, Christ in the heart of another. Christ in the goodness or in the likeness, in the virtue of an infant, the merriment of a child, of a kindness from neighbour to neighbour, of a charity transporting the grace. Christ in the love of within a union, and that of family, and Christ in the righteous in righteous enterprise. Wherever there is Christ follows a certain pain to those who are still walking the paths of death.

Through Christ’s passing on the cross and resurrection they are now awake to Him being present in this World.

But that they can see Him and perceive Him is a slow burn and a gracious gift which carries the kernel of their salvation: a salvation that will one day soothe the cunning and pour light into their abject beings.

For this Light is our living connection to God, and goes to all - yet thinly for those who would bring harm to this World, and it is truly their only hope if they are to keep their places in eternity.

#easter

The Rock-Face- Easter 1991

I GIVE you the picture of a man edged up against a rock-face. With sheer will his strength has caused a boulder to hold the gate of the mountainous rock-face, supported. There is an opening from which many flee out from behind that rock, verily a multitude of beings, of souls, all who were prisoner- the aged and the children of God- all who had been in captivity from what had seemed since the world was new; stumbling and fleeing, some leading, holding hands and guiding. Picture the multitudes in tatters and rags, blind to the sunlight, supporting one another.

And this one man still holds fast, supporting the immense bulk that towers above. He must continue until the last soul has escaped the gate, and still they keep coming. No-one can take his place. There is no rest offered, and the time has escalated to such, that this was the task set to do and that it will be done.

Three days and three nights the rock-face has been held. Those who were captive are captive no more - sublime and holy, miraculous release! But what of the solitary figure who withstood the damning rock-gate? Now we give you the last days of our Savior and Lord: the Christ.

Although unseen, there was much that was done - all was accomplished, in those hours of Crucifixion. Verily, souls were given their sublime release, souls whose freedom had been bound to both kings and demons, in chains and bondage that no other could have brought release from.

Here the mission reached total fruition. Here, although not documented as in a visible gateway, our Lord with all His Might threw over the powers of darkness. Out from a seeming feebleness came a Might unimagined.

Sweet passing could have been instigated at any moment, there need not have been a spear or nail; but the task was set, and freedom, freedom from earthly reins, was not sought until the freedom of the children of Man had been accomplished - as was done. 

In joyous uprising our dear Christ gave forfeit to those plans and destinies that had otherwise been played out and maneuvered, to enslave and encapture the kingdoms of Man.

When the boulder was drawn back, our dear Lord Christ did defy the wardens! He who went first down into the prisons and tombs of humanity, then followed last to signal the age of entrapment to have crumbled.

And when in the days to come when all humanity places Him first and above all, we may pass joyously yet, through the gates ahead: the gates of gold. (Not pearly!)