Existence is the principle tendency of the Way of Physics, the Way of Faith, and the Way of the Middle Path.
Spring is such time of meddling sorrow and joy.
Happy Easter my friends.
Happy Easter we heard from Pope Francis and all around the Earth our sentiments rose.
Pope Francis, brilliant, old, and wise, more so now than ever before, because his lifelong suffering has shaped his wisdom, his character, and his advice.
So let us hear this small homily from Pope Francis, given in the small chapel inside Vatican, a few days ago.
Please pay attention, because it is simply glorious work of wisdom.
Francis went on to say:
“You can have flaws, be anxious and even be angry, but don’t forget that your life is the greatest business in the world.
Only you can stop it from failure. You are appreciated, admired and loved by many.
Remember that being happy is not having a sky without storms, a road without accidents, a job without effort, relationships without disappointments.
Being happy is to stop feeling a victim and become the author of your own destiny.
It’s going through deserts, but being able to find an oasis deep in your soul.
It’s to thank God every morning for the miracle of life.
It’s kissing your children, cuddling your parents, having poetic moments with your friends, even when they hurt us.
To be happy is to let live the creature that lives in each of us, free, joyful and simple.
It’s having maturity to be able to say: “I made mistakes”.
Having the courage to say “I’m sorry”. It’s having a sensitivity to say “I need you”.
Is having the ability to say “I love you”.
May your life become a garden of opportunities for happiness… that in spring I can be a lover of joy, and in winter a lover of wisdom.
And when you make a mistake, start over.
Because only then will you fall in love with life.
You will find that being happy doesn’t mean having a perfect life.
But she uses tears to irrigate tolerance.
Use your defeats to train your patience.
Use your mistakes with the serenity of the sculptor.
Use pain to tune into pleasure.
Use obstacles to open the windows of intelligence.
Never give up …
Above all, never give up on the people that love you.
Never give up on happiness, because life is an amazing show. “
–POPE FRANCIS
Love this.
I read it thrice, before I was able to see, and continue reading clearly, through the mists my eyes felt coursing in my soul….
Few words, from a selfless Father to his children, full of “Tender Agape’s” remorse for the broken beings — we all are.
Yet our Souls remain unharmed…
Love each other — go to Galilee.
Still Yours,
Dr Churchill
PS:
Francis’ love of Humanity, informs his clarion call for nuclear disarmament.
And so is his call, for the “Courage of the white flag.”
his call for the Courage or the discontinuity of the war in Ukraine are legend, as is his strong proposal for the continued Existence of Human Beings.
This obviously stems from his deep seated Faith and his Obedience to the one true God, the benevolent Creator of Life, and his command and convocation that we are to be Good Stewards of Life and not the opposite, as many of our people seem to think by deluding themselves greatly that there is no punishment when performing Evil’s labors…
The Pope’s call for nuclear disarmament finds me in complete agreement as this Easter season, we stand closer to the precipice of Nuclear Armageddon, than at any other time in history.
And how can we not cry for help from Heavens above when on this gorgeous Spring Day of Easter and Resurrection — we are besieged with thoughts of impending doom, amidst the joy of falling Sakura Cherry blossoms, dressing our trees like beautiful brides in their finery, celebrating the rebirth of Life?
And we keep walking in gloom, fully knowing that we are there out of our own doing, because NATO’s encroachment towards the East, carrying on a misguided offensive posture while ostensibly being a defense alliance, because of our constant and unceasing saber rattling over Ukraine, because of the insidious nature of the Pentagon’s brass profiting from war, because of the Executive wing’s incredulity, because of the State Department and the White House’s myopic selfish willful blindness — we have reached the unimaginable Crescendo of Dr Strangelove, our very own President trying to project his macho geriatric image, as a cowboy buck riding atop ICBM missiles — leading the Cacophony of Atomic Weaponry targeting some other human beings, upending children’s lives & homes, at ground zero, fully forgetting that the proverbial “chicken” always come home to roost.
Hubris, Anger, Violence, Leader’s Alzheimer, & loads of Bad Karma — all mixed-up, make for a dread disease: The total Metastatic Cancer of a New Nuclear Arms Race and an impending Armageddon.
Unsurprisingly our $2 Trillion US Dollars in special hastily approved Congressional appropriations, are all targeted for the preparations for hypersonic renewal, readiness, and redeployment of the whole fleet of our ICBMs, and for the totality of our Nuclear weapons Arsenal, is a massive spending of monies that we don’t have… Mind you that this is far above the almost One Trillion that is the annual budget for our Permanent Offense department.
Incredible waste of Human Blood, Toil & Treasure, all burned at the altar of the Temples of the Gods of War.
All up in smoke, just in order to satisfy the prophesy of old men sending the young ones to death, and as always, (Pentagon wants at the forefront) being able to deploy our Atomic weapons at the first opportune nanosecond, supported & governed by Artificial Intelligence for our “First Use” advantage.
Great technical feat. An engineering marvel. Artificial Intelligence mixing it up with Atomic Nuclear Weapons, and a $2 Trillion dollars in the offing, making this the best chance for intentionally effacing Humanity, forever more.
Please ask yourselves this question: Why are we doing this? Whose Evil genius manifested this? What ever could go wrong?
Sadly this is the Easter Message that the professional war mongers throw in our faces, when all the Easter people pray stoutly, for peace, for health, for salvation, hoping for the abolition of our sins, through the ancient & eternal promise of God’s forgiveness.
Contrast this with the earlier words of Love that came to us from Francis refectory, where the peaceful Pontifex Francis is praying devoutly for Peace, on this Easter Day and beyond. He says & hopes that we shall also join our hands in stout prayer for Peace across Humanity’s all of the many fronts of discord, bloodshed, and hateful anomaly…
So, this Easter Day, I do hope & stoutly pray, that we all start on a New Path for Life’s continued existence, away from war and it’s self-defeating nukes.
Today, I’ll join Francis in this endeavor, and hope you will all follow our example because Peace is the greatest gift, and as a Public Health practitioner — I know that it is also the most important Public Health Benefit the World can endow for its manyfold Peoples, tribes, and nationhoods.
Indeed this is all I have ever hoped for.
Bless you Francis, and bless you all, this Easter Sunday of 2024, when we are all walking about, sitting ducks waiting for the nuclear weapons to explode over our collective heads in the next 90 seconds, making us all “dead-men-walking” anytime now.
We are indeed living under the Damoclean sword of Nuclear weapons exchanges, at 90 seconds to midnight, fast approaching the ultimate curtain call for Humanity.
And so today, as I heard my friendly Father Paul Etienne, blessing us all, and reminding us to go to Galilee … I accepted the challenge.
Go to Galilee …
From Seattle’s St James church on First Hill — he admonishes us to go to Galilee.
A bit of a hike, long haul & many thousands of miles, but an instant for the Soul.
Let us all go to Galilee to pray for Peace, and leave the arms race behind…
Tell our generals and chiefs of war, to come join us on this trek to Galilee, and leave the nukes behind, because sooner than later, where we are all going, we won’t be needing any of them, anyway.
GO TO GALILEE.
Go to the Sea of Peace.