SEEL #129.01: LOVE CONTEMPLATION silent adoration, prayer, and communion with GOD

WEEK OF PRAYER #29: THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE LOVE OF GOD

Wow, this is the goal and focus of all these SEEL course lessons: God wants our Loving friendship. Not just to be best-buds, but to have that deep pure Love beyond all other things. God wants to be known and LOVED by us, where we seek this deepest passion and action in experience with Him above all else.  These Passionate Divine Desires are the source of our deepest needs to know, love, and serve the True Will of God. Wow, so much happening so quickly. Like, I visited our new Mayor this week . . . . 

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His Purpose.” Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭28‬ ‭KJV‬‬  

I’m starting this next Lesson in SEEL and again I feel so blessed to know and experience so much of God's Grace and Love here before me, that seemingly is out of reach for so many people. I really have come to learn how RARE my direct experience with Jesus and the Holy Trinity really is!  I know this is my place and time to step stronger into this place that I know and have helped to create so clearly!  Yes, Jesus GIFTS me all the time, with the Fruit of the Spirit, Joy, Love and Peace nearly always!  Now I need to step more strongly into my "own Ministry!"

Yes, I know Jesus is my Best-Bud, and I know everything was planned and set before time began. Yes, I literally said these same words today to our next Mayor: “You know what this city Really needs,” we need to do TROP4Food, no ball team, but a food forest, where we can feed the whole city from this one place. Wow, what a crazy thing to say!?!?! And now again I hear the JoyFm morning Prayers: Psalms 59:16 “But I will sing of thy power; Yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: For thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble. Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: For God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.” Psalm‬ ‭59‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭KJV wow, and the rain comes down on me now. . . wow. . .‬‬

I’m so blessed to have this experience to share and read and learn more about my special relationship and experience that I have with God. Yes Father, Son and Holy Ghost is my Primary Family now. It’s really remarkable how much comes together for me each and every day. As I open this book and read of God’s Love while simultaneously Listening to Charles Stanley who is repeating the same ideas and same words that the Radio brings forth to me as well.

Yes, 12:02pm 7/18/2026 I’ve just biked home from the 9:30am meeting in the Mayor’s new office suite and I’ve come into my room. Yes, laugh, his new office is across the street from the office that brought me to St Pete, bringing me in full circle again to the same space! Another room full of entrepreneurs I shared how my dream for this city won a Disney’s award in the 1980s! And he gave me his cell phone number for me to send it right then. Wow, what a crazy thing to say!?!?! And now I completed Day 168 from Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike and then opened this blog to continue with this lesson, adding the Grace I FEEL NOW, knowing we have a neighbor running to be our next Mayor. FOR THE PEOPLE, sounds like cleaning up shop, since burrowcrates are always about MORE burrowcrates and not much else. . .  

Of course, now back to my original writing, it’s all connecting to the deeper power and Love of God Flowing through so strong and vibrantly. And I savor these feelings and the sounds of the thunder and rainstorm overhead now . . . . THANK YOU Dearest Love Lord Jesus!

More critical to our experience is recognizing our responsibility to stay in this flow of the love of Jesus, whatever that responsibility means for each one of us! To carry our cross as Jesus did! And I know I can do more than I do, and I know it’s all been given to me, exactly as I asked, I couldn’t have decided anything better. We couldn’t have decided anything better. Each blessing gets stronger, and more focused, each opportunity is clear and strong before me.

I’m sitting in the mass now at St Raphael, in the old church, Caverly Hall and it’s all set up with chairs and Mary just got up and walked past me and said good morning!  My first instinctive desire was to stand up and hug her . . . And soon Roy came by too, reaching out to shake my hand and I did stand up and hug him. I snapped a screenshot here of these writing to spontaneously send to Lisette, anticipating her entry into this Mass, knowing I can hug her too . . . lol, it’s funny how I can hug one but not another. Of course, after I sent it to her I found typos and needed to edit it. Just like speaking and sharing with people. One person asks something that gets me racing down some rabbit hole, while the next person, next question has me done in seconds. . . 

Yes, SEEL Day ONE starts with the phrase again to:  ask for what you desire. I want Jesus to return Home and help me restore the Garden of Eden for all Earth to enjoy and share in. Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ in Profound Gratitude for allowing me to become this love and service of Your bountiful expression of Your Mercy and Glory to bring Mankind forward into Your Will in All Things. 

Here again, in this next lesson, the first point in day one is about Gratitude for the wonderful Gifts God Desires for me, that never cease to amaze me. Each day I’m blessed beyond reason as I feel this wonderful sense of joy and happiness as I experience: the goodness and wonder of my daily encounters in each moment before me, savoring the immediate experience shared in God!

Wow, as I read this page from the SEEL book, and considered my experience today. I started this page again, and then I jumped up with a leg cramp and went downstairs, not sure what I needed to do. Yes, I told Jesus to “stub my toe” if I needed to do something for Him, and He’s changed it to leg cramps, because I’m sitting or biking usually, not walking enough these days to STUB anything, I guess. When I got downstairs, I saw Larry, and I told him about meeting the Mayor this morning. Again Giving ALL that I am.  Course, Larry has met him before, and so I shared my first encounter with the bike ride and then the followup this morning.  All is God's Gift, that is ALL I AM, to share and give forward now!

Knowing the clarity and focus shared with the Mayor was so much more than I could understand or express to Larry. I explained to Larry about my accident and being “sent to Tampa” to win the Dreamers and Doers award my college freshman year, which I also had shared with the Mayor again today starting at TROP4food. And then explained to Larry how starting STARS was my own attempt to build the Visions I had witnessed with my accident, as the task before me, to do Gods WILL.  ALL YOURS JESUS!

Yes, pondering these deep personal creations, redemption and gifts granted for me to share . . . Wow, and here again I could share something so deep and intimate for me and know it only opens the door for more growth. I mean, to share something I’ve dreamed and explored since 1980, that’s over 40 years ago! To consider this as a “redemption” or restoration of this dream and passions for connecting people to Health and Truth in Love with Jesus. Again here speaking of this Vision and Dream that I’ve seen countless times morphed to create a real physical expressions before my eyes.  It’s really remarkable when I consider that I'm back to the same place I started sharing the one incredible vision that I had.

Now considering all that I’ve seen and put forward, I realize that I can now again rewrite these visions and express this passion in a new experience and in this new place. Now, I can give all of this for a new experience, and a new opportunity for my city and my community to step into a new place.

 

DAY 2: Repetition of the first point of the Contemplation. If helpful in your prayer of thanksgiving, revisit Psalm 139 from earlier in the retreat or Psalm 138, a hymn of gratitude. In praying with the Take, Lord, Receive prayer, ask: What are my particular gifts, talents, and other blessings that I want to offer for the service of God and others? 

Yes, Christ’s Love abounds through FAITH!  Wow, “contemplate” my Bountiful Gifts, Talents, and Blessings from this first point in the Love of Jesus. How powerful is this going to get now? I’ve never shared so much of God Visions to anyone, not since NJ Late nights talking with Joyce Spielberger, my 2nd mom! WOW!

To really consider, view, and think about all that I’ve been Given!?!?! I mean, even to consider the last few days and what it really means for me to even share or speak about what I’ve seen and shared for years. It’s really just remarkable to remember and consider now. I mean now to have a quiet moment of blessing, where I'm comfortable and resting in my big king bed, with the grounded silver sheet plugged in the wall, on a bamboo mattress, organic linen sheets . . . Covered by some soft felt “weighted” blanket an AirBnB Guest left for me: yes another gift, gift, gifts and more of the best gifts…

I thought I was blessed and gifted when I first moved into this house where all the furniture was left behind. But I never slept in a big king bed before . . . And now with my white pencil in hand on this iPad, interrupted only by nibbling my organic nut mix, with a scoop of my organic dried fruit mix and some Three Daughters Brewery strong Mexican Stout.  And I laugh trying to "lookup" Stout similar to the "contemplation" checkup that I did, and posted up above. Yes, I get Apple updates weekly now, and really could never read, with no experience or vocabulary, since looking up words required several books beyond me, while now finally, I click a word and lookup with no changes, no effort, simple enough for me to stay focused to understand what I read for the first time in my life!!!!

I mean, every tiny detail of this experience, trying to write this in bed now, really demonstrates the Complete Passion, Pleasure, and Extreme DELIGHT, Savored with my Lord Jesus Christ . . . . I am in FULL-REALIZATION now again that God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost equally savor this moment WITH ME, completely spoiled, blissed-out, in comfort and ease, TO DO WHAT I DO ==> GOD’s WILL

I mean, then I’ll speak to my iPad and realize how much easier it is to just share these feeling of the power of this moment with my words, as they bubble up as warmth from my heart to envelop my voice. And then I focus to feel this warmth of my heart as it swells up above my chest, knowing that these words will have no meaning to anyone else, until one feels Christ in Church, Family, Love, and Experience . . . While simultaneously my chest bone springs up again . . . xiphoid process . . . And I think I can snap a picture to share now too!

What’s more remarkable than everything is how much I really hunger to snap pictures to verify/prove my incredible experiences, and suddenly film and edit this short video clip to add here, and discover my beer glass has “Merry Christmas” written in raised letters across the bottom, how appropriate to share this moment.

  

Then these above verses include all I’ve studied today, with the two hearts from the Charles Stanley Podcasts Bible verse above: KNOWing how Christ Dwells in this Love with Me, and Each day I’m sharing and learning more about this experience and how to bring it forth for others. This coincides with the DAY 3 knowing God is with me in ALL THINGS as posted below. And I accept and step stronger into this moment of strength and justice knowing full well the mighty strength and transitions before us.

Yes, this Wondrous Lord God filled with Blessing and Kindness approaches this movement with me, and I’ve barely dreamt at all what could manifest with my fall classes, entrepreneurship, sustainability and mangroves. . .  

Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬ ‭KJV‬‬… and this brings me back to these good works in Your Will. And I see a long progression of works I must complete today, beginning with my morning walk to Mass. Yes, I've been attending Mass every day again. As each morning I do all my regular podcasts and even had my iPhone read my email messages that included Chris Stephanic and Cathy Kaster 

And I find my next space here in this blog, hungry and ready for me to chase, pursue and catch now: Wow, and I know Christ Jesus is ready and anxious to share:

Here again you are ready to step into another place, deeper, stronger, and you know it's where discernment wins and grows stronger! Each step you take, and each moment means more and more for you as this power and desire to express more comes through to you stronger and stronger each moment.

More clear and more focused about myself and my own Deeper desires to really BE GOD’s TEMPLE as circled, here and now in this Good City and Catholic Community. . . 

you are more than ready to do each step before you . . . . you have some wonderful tasks at hand and each has a timing and sequence where this love bubbling from your breast becomes more and more apparent to you . . . Fearless you move forward, calling forth your peers and friends . . . 

What is more perplexing than all is accepting this love and all it really means for me right now.  Repeating this Love with Day 4. With the eyes of faith, we realize the infinite depth of reality. I go to Mass again, and then stop to do Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike, then call the city and university people I need to meet and share with. Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I Love You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I Love You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, Please lend Your Strength, Love, & Wisdom to listen and learn where I must go next. . . 

My Morning bike ride to Mass, had me walking in there soon enough just to kneel as Mass was starting. I watched the older women in front of me struggling at stand, and again my first instinct was to go Hug Her, just like Mass in Caverly when Tom with his walker struggled to stand next to me . . . and Mary . . . So I wondered, watching the process of Mass, what could I say to the Father about healing these people before me?

Is that what I need to do next?  Ask permission to heal people?  Like excuse me Father, I'm the "Man of Knowledge" where all my life I've learned to experience God in ALL THINGS, sorta like Saint Ignatius teaches all the Jesuits in Lesson 29. Yes, Jesus Created all and Has this much deeper essence in all things we can connect to BY CHOICE to learn, grow and heal from the Love of God all around us. So each person now before me with back pain and mobility issues will feel relief if they take off their shoes and hug me. Placing our hearts together, I can describe in detail, the experience of our magnetic hearts spinning together and connecting to Earth Magnetism to release all pain, trauma, sickness into the Earth.

Then I realize it's really about what Bubbles up from my heart in God's Love, to over power my voice and I listen to the words with no thinking nor planning anything . . . . . where God is ever present and strong in me and all around me, encouraging me to step forward and share more in His Love and not my mind.

Time for this to get focused again on SEEL DAY 5. Ok this one has really got me, as the idea of God "labors" for me is really foreign. I know God is within all things and really sustains all things. And it's really the place and action of the Love, that is God, which really provides. And I guess I can understand and accept it's a “labor of love!” I guess I can also understand the need and blessing to praise God for this love and labor of love. Just as I know and understand how God is endlessly overflowing with love and more love.

So now again, I realize how it’s God sharing this moment, and every moment with me through all the life around me, and all the gifts He’s given and shared. Endless Love overflowing through all things. Just like my savoring the moment of relaxing in bed to write and understand this deeper experience that I have now with Him, I can understand and accept the power and focus He brings into all these tasks. Leading into DAY 6: I praise you God, for this opportunity that you have given to me, every moment allows me to share Your Love, every moment I can share this dream, every moment I can share more of what you have brought me to, and share the many gifts with all who you bring into my space.