127: THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST

WEEK OF PRAYER #27:  THE RESURRECTION  OF JESUS CHRIST 

I am always totally surprised and blessed how things come together and happen before me. It’s always been a place of power and clarity. I see the Grace of God everywhere. Like now sitting on my bed ready to read and write through this next SEEL lesson. I noticed bike grease on my leg from my ride this morning, and decide to take a shower. 

Of course, then I feel TOTALLY blessed to be getting clean to rest, write and love Jesus all clean and pretty ready for bed! WOW!?!?

As I step back now to really savor this moment, as "Dr.A" would say; “really savor it,” and I realize the real power and focus that has brought this new knowledge and experience to me of getting into the Bible and learning how to pray. . . . I mean the Joy and complete surprise is beyond reason. Even further, I see the same story in the SEEL book speaking about my Welcome Witness to the Saint Raphael's people, where I belong to https://www.st-raphaels.com/ here with three Saints with https://stpaulstpete.com/  here in https://www.stpete.org/ !

Of course, now I reread where I started and add purple and blue “love” lines as I FEEL and SEE these  ideas in Joy!  Yes, more surprises in Joyful Love!  So now I just wrote an email to Fr. Jonathan as he witnessed my first welcome testimony about my mom's sermon. Of course, no one takes me seriously, so I always have to explain every detail over and over again.  Especially about the lies in our culture and businesses around cancer... Sadly even as this world of deception, greed and death crashes in around everyone, the sheeple still continue to pretend that everything will work out fine in this world full of satan.

Of course again, I know everything works out fine for me, however I also know the tasks and efforts before me are really significant making me work harder and more focused each moment. . . . Especially, now as I see these ideas to synch with nature highlighted in the Big Purple Hearts above. “Synching with nature” are really central to my Beingness! As I've always known Mary from there.  Thank You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ, I Love You Dear Lord Jesus Christ!

DAY 1 Read John 20:1-10 (the disciples find the empty tomb). Imagine finding the empty tomb with the disciples. What has happened now As I pray and draw in with these lights of love, I’m so blessed when the sunrise just started, so it’s time for me to go and I finally found this love with you again!!! ((yes, I just highlighted this page below deep in thank you, where everything worked perfectly , then I dropped my iPad on the floor and raced to get on my bike for sunrise)) It's really so remarkable to me to see and read so much love and beauty all around me!

This reading hit home again! Of course Mary was there. It feels like she’s been through death before. Seven demons in her when she met Jesus, she likely had multiple experiences with death. So she knows He’s not gone, can’t be dead, something else?!? Now each day with SEEL, I see these readings MELDED BEAUTIFULLY into my immediate experience from multiple directions. . . Mass, Podcasts, emails, readings:

Like here’s Fr Mike and the Catholic Catechism in a year podcast where he’s on CCC: 473 “But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God's Son expressed the divine life of his person. The human nature of God's Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God." Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father. The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts. CCC: 474 By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal.  What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.

I just need to laugh now seeing this next image that I posted here. Like suddenly knowing and seeing God’s plans opened and revealed to all. Like of course Mary knew everything. When we ask specifically for God to reveal his plans and perspective it does bring confidence and knowing. And the Faith and Trust from our Hearts is required for us to step forward from there.

Like here at right are the three courses I have scheduled for the Fall 2026 term, two at SPC and one at USF. All online courses, all that I've done before and can easily step into again.  So I created these little cards to advertise and promote my courses. . . so I can increase the students in each and maybe break each into two courses. . . Doubling my course load again.

DAY 2 & 3 IMAGINE JESUS RESURRECTION AND RETURN TO MOTHER MARY! Wow, this really carries so much power for me this moment. And suddenly, I just jump to my iPad Pro, where I can use this white little pencil on the big screen that I can write and read over so easily. Each word I write becomes more clear and more focused as my script turns to text.  I accept this opportunity to step into a deeper and deeper place of trust, love and security. Mary knew this with Jesus. That parent/child bonded relationship overpowers all else. There is no division, no insecurity, no falsehood in this Love.  Everything is very clear and focused.

Ah yes, this reminds me of Father’s Day, that we just had yesterday (5:51 am 6/22/26 now). Where I know I was able to share similarly loving with my own children, seeing that beauty and love of peace and joy that only comes from that deep spiritual connection between parent and child.  Like this Day 2-3 reading of Jesus and Mary: knowing a love beyond all else. . . . As wonderful as it was, I need to acknowledged how many things just fell into place this weekend. Biking to the farmers market after church yesterday, I got the beep on my watch to call Chris at our 9am schedule. I pulled of Beach Drive and just parked my bike right next to Ceviche to sit on a big bench and talk with my son. 

What was remarkable was accepting that I had a new bike that was more fantasy than I ever imagined. Larry told me that it sat in the garage for a few years before, I finally pulled it out to reconfigure it for me to ride. My son looked it up online within minutes, just to tell me that it was an expensive racing bike. I laughed at the gift that Jesus had given me, knowing that once again, it was beyond my fantasy, and I was completely surprised. I thanked Larry a dozen times for reminding me about it was sitting in the garage. Of course, I couldn’t get into the garage until after my semester of classes was done. Now, I realize it’s really a reward from Jesus for getting something important finished.

I mean, I've not used it for a week yet, and already while riding I remembered riding no-hands as usual, I tried to move the gear-shifters off the handle bars. I had made a foot-break already, so not I needed to put the shifters on the seat or somewhere else. Yes I explained to my son, how I had some memory of wanting the shifters moved somewhere else. And now biking I somehow felt like I had seen this before. ! . ? . ! . ? 

Similarly, while on the phone with Emily, I get an email from USAA with a refund insuring my summer vacation continued. Wow, a summer break! Fixed my fence, cleaned my garage, lol no not yet, just started! I guess yesterday I started by cleaning my stoop out my back door. It’s been piled high with all my indoor plants that need new pots and resetting. Yes, a big basin of dirt, pots, plants piled up high where I had to climb over things or be careful. Just like when my classes finally ended with my birthday last month.  As soon as I got home from visiting emily I had to clean my kitchen piled up with a mess too.

I was starting to feel like I was living in a dorm room again.  Funny I told me son about having the summer off, and I could finally get a dog. nope, Priorities: DAY 4:

Read John 20:11-18, and we've come back to Mary.  

Course having Mary around all the time always feels like a blessing to me. My Mom Maria, lol, and my "Fat Ram" Maryanne again feels so very familiar to me in synch with Jesus.  And here again what comes really strong for me in Lectio Divina is the Words of Jesus comforting Mary by saying how He's not yet Ascended and wants her to tell his disciples that He's returning to His Father, Their Father, His God and Their God!  

I feel like this is really central to his teachings too. How Jesus was Brethren with His disciples and wanted to be sure they are all ready for this blessing coming now before them.  Or ready for the many Blessings that Jesus had planned for them as He is Resurrected, or really as planned for all of us throughout time.

DAY 5 Read Matthew 28:1-10 (Jesus appears to the women at the tomb). Hear again from the angels and Jesus what you've heard often in the retreat: "Do not be afraid." Love casts out all fear. Joy remains.

Yes, fearless with "great joy." It's really kinda ODD how many times I've noticed people seeking JOY, but unable to release FEAR. I mean, these emotions are essentially opposite and it's not physically possible to have opposite feelings at the same time.  Of Course, I've had this debate several times. It's not possible to BE positive and negative at the same time, like you are either black or white, male or female. And still people insist they are both. Yes, I'm sure they will figure it out. That's really what life is all about to experience and understand. And return to the love and joy that we are designed and created to be.

DAY 6 Repetition. Again really feel right as I post this bible reading from Mass as well. Of course it's always on the same topics and i'm always finding reinforced synch in everything I learn and study now. I' ve said for years it's weird os perplexing, but it's really become so constant and present that I need to start honoring it. 

Not just catching these phrases, to highlight and post, but to really start to accept and resonate with this state of BLISS and JOY that I am. I have noticed that I'm always answering the morning "how are you?" that everyone in programmed by the Matrix to say, with "I'M WONDERFUL" instead of the typical "FINE."

I've not started to "proclaim on the housetops" as I've highlighted here above. But I have noticed new confidence and security to share the deeper truths and passionate insights that I do have.  I mean, especially sharing with the church ladies group.  I've noticed they almost ask for it, or expect me to share something.  I've really been so lucky to be caught into the mix and dynamics of so many serious culture changes and evolutions during all my life.  Of course, I also noticed people rarely believe or even understand specific events that I explain or retell.

DAY 7 Savor the graces of the week. Read 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 ("the God of all consolation").