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For Lightworkers: On Standing with Courage in Physical Form . by Alice B. Clagett

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For Lightworkers: On Standing with Courage in Physical Form

Composite Image: Help from Our Ascension Team,” animated gif by Alice B. Clagett, 5 July 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “Nicholas Flat Abstracts A: Singles Collection 1 [cropped, adapted],” by Alice B. Clagett, 13 June 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com  … and …  Image: “Family Portrait [cropped, adapted],” by Eric Ward, 11 October 2007, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Family_Portrait.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic  … and …  Image: “The Death and Assumption of the Virgin” [cropped, adapted], by Fra Angelico, circa 1432, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Death_and_the_Assumption_of_the_Virgin_-_Fra_Angelico_-_Google_Cultural_Institute_-_detail_2.jpg … public domain … COMMENTS: For reasons to do with dogma … and some say, gender weighting … what might otherwise be termed the ‘Ascension’ of Christ’s mother Mary is termed her ‘Assumption’. The assumption being that there must have been a man in the works, when in fact, as the image depicts, it is the Angelic Realm that saw her through this process of transformation from the third dimension … physical form … to the fifth dimension, which the Lightworkers of today term a state of Christ consciousness. And how, for the mother of Christ, might this state of transformation be more aptly phrased? –Alice B. Clagett

Here is intel for Lightworkers on the topic of standing with courage in physical form.

  • LET US STAND WITH COURAGE IN PHYSICAL FORM
  • ON DEFLECTING THE PREDATOR-PREY MENTAL FILTER OF THE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY
  • HOW THE ANGELIC REALM AND THE DEMONIC REALM HELP US ATTAIN SOUL WISDOM THROUGH THE EXERCISE OF FREE WILL

Dear Ones,

LET US STAND WITH COURAGE IN PHYSICAL FORM

Take a look at this painting, which I like very much indeed …

Image: “World of Warcraft Deathwing Video Game: Dragon Thrall Wallpaper” … https://images4.alphacoders.com/195/195504.jpg … DESCRIPTION: On the left, a great dragon, its heart on fire like a living coal on which the breath of courage has been breathed. On the right is Thrall, a green-skinned giant, holding a round, magical mirror that reflects the red Light of the Dragon.

The painting reminds me that we Lightworkers, Pathfinders, Wayshowers, and healers must be full of courage even when the odds are greatly daunting.

For instance, yesterday there were three gang members in the parking lot of the coffee shop where I went for a grilled cheese sandwich. One was chasing after a young woman, and the others were trying to intimidate me.

Then, despite storm clouds overhead, I went to the park. As I walked, a man arrived and began walking with his pit bull. The pit bull took one look at me and came rushing to attack me. Go figure!

We Lightworkers and healers must stand undaunted against the challenges of life in physical form. Like Thrall on the right side of the painting, we must take our stand against the perils we encounter, no matter how daunting they may appear. We must do so in the Now, on the spur of the moment, at the very instant we sense, through intuition, that danger lies before us. That is the one lesson I got from this painting.

FOR LIGHTWORKERS: ON DEFLECTING THE PREDATOR-PREY MENTAL FILTER OF THE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY

I had another, and quite a different take on the painting. It went like this: The sociopath might perceive a Lightworker’s or a healer’s heart like the energy on the left of the painting, and feel threatened by it, like Thrall on the right. Yet, I feel, the redness and danger that the sociopath senses in those others may have to do with his own mental and emotional filters, which may seem to color other beings with anger and with threat energy. 

I feel it to be best for us Lightworkers and healers to feel love in our hearts, for our own sake. Only a strong and loving heart can keep our own physical and subtle bodies in good health in the third dimension. If we feel negative emotions such as fear, anger, or despair when confronted with the threat energy of the antisocial personality, then we harm our own bodies of Light, and momentarily dim our chances of survival in physical form.

But what of those who feel it is their life mission to squash love? Then if I feel love towards them in particular, they sense an attack on their mission, and respond with negative thoughts and emotions. For now, I thought I might try working with my own heart energy, and then sending love to all beings everywhere (as in the Metta prayer of the Buddhists).

It feels to me it is as if we human beings are hardwired to relate one-on-one. But there are those (such as antisocial personalities) with whom Lightworkers and healers cannot relate one-on-one, because it results in our own heart being injured.

Right now I am thinking maybe I could sidestep the one-to-one wiring in my human thinking and emotions, and avoid dings to my body of Light because of astral run-ins with antisocial personalities, by offering blessings for the All and expressing appreciation of Free Will.

By blessing all beings everywhere, I hope to avoid attracting the one-on-one attention of human sociopaths and of ‘astral rascals’.

HOW THE ANGELIC REALM AND THE DEMONIC REALM HELP US ATTAIN SOUL WISDOM THROUGH THE EXERCISE OF FREE WILL

11 “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 “Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 “And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God….”

–Ephesians 6: 11-17 (KJV)

Free will is the Creator’s tool for Soul evolution and development of Soul wisdom for all human beings, here in the third dimension. Of course, astral rascals have not the gift of Soul evolution, nor that of Free Will … any more so than do the Angels. They grow and mature into adult beings. Some work for the Dark and others for the Light. Through their very nature they adhere to these principles: affinity for the Dark, or else for the Light. But though they have not the gift of Free Will, yet they have the very great gift of assisting God in manifesting the play of Light and Dark in this, the third dimension. For that I can be, and ever am, very grateful.

Human beings have the gift of Free Will, and so may chose to express the Light or the relative Dark through their actions here on Earth. It is through the tutelage or interception of the forces of Light and Dark … the beings of the Angelic Realm …

Image: “The Guardian Angel,” by Gioacchino Assereto, between 1625 and 1630, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gioacchino_Assereto_(1600-1649)_-_The_Guardian_Angel_-_1948P35_-_Birmingham_Museums_Trust.jpg … public domain

Image: “The Guardian Angel,” by Gioacchino Assereto, between 1625 and 1630, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gioacchino_Assereto_(1600-1649)_-_The_Guardian_Angel_-_1948P35_-_Birmingham_Museums_Trust.jpg … public domain

… or the Demonic Realm …

Image: “The Temptation of Christ,” by Ary Scheffer, 1854, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ary_Scheffer_-_The_Temptation_of_Christ_(1854).jpg … public domain

Image: “The Temptation of Christ,” by Ary Scheffer, 1854, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ary_Scheffer_-_The_Temptation_of_Christ_(1854).jpg … public domain

… that God adds the exclamation marks to our human choices of right action or wrong action in our worldly affairs.

As a LIghtworker, I am grateful for the striking contrast of Angelic or Demonic intervention when I exercise Free Will. For those of us with an ear attuned to the differences between the opposing effects of intervention by beings of the astral positive and the astral negative realms, it becomes possible to sense, in the here and Now, the right or wrong of our actions. These beings, through their outpouring of Light and love, or conversely, through their evil murmurs in my (left) astral ear, allow me to plum the wisdom of my actions on Earth.

As well, I feel, through God’s gift of human incarnations in different timelines and dimensions, human beings can attain ever greater Soul wisdom. That wisdom is gleaned from their darker choices in the darker timelines and dimensions in which they are incarnate, as well as from their lighter choices in the lighter timelines and dimensions in which they incarnate. Thus the Lightworker can feel good about all the Free Will choices made by human beings on Earth.

This is the play of Duality, the school of all our Souls. Our choices, both good and bad, are made more poignant … more full of anguish or of the great virtues … love, hope, charity, peace of mind, joy in the moment of the Now … by the helping presence of the creatures God has provided to work with us through the Demonic Realm and the Angelic Realm.

With this o’erarching viewpoint, I feel gratitude for God’s gift of Free Will to human beings; to His gift of angels and astral rascals to highlight our moral decisions, moment to moment; and to the play of karma and the blessing of dharma (of aligning with God’s grace) in this world,

That way I can feel good about, and remain neutral to, the many choices of action made by the many beings here in the physical and astral realities of Earth. That is my aspiration.

With gratitude for the painter of the “World of Warcraft Deathwing Video Game: Dragon Thrall Wallpaper,” I am

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 16 March 2021; revised on 14 Julye 2023

For more on the All and Free Will, see … Link: “The Law of One: The Ra Material” … https://www.lawofone.info/ … Search the category: Law of One  … and search the terms: Free Will  … and … All 

NOTE: The green-skinned figure on the right of the painting reminds me of earlier paintings of orks I found online. Some of these are fierce and cruel, as in the first renditions of the drawings. Others are fierce but good. Perhaps there are two races of orks, and the figure in this painting belongs to the latter, more benign race of powerful beings.

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Alice’s Perilous Tales: Valley of the Shadow of Death: Slow Motion Dark Attacks . by Alice B. Clagett

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Alice's Perilous Tales: Valley of the Shadow of Death: Slow Motion Dark Attacks

Image: “Alice’s Perilous Tales,” adapted from Image by Sarah Richter from Pixabay – Pixabay Content License

  • SLOW MOTION TRAIN WRECK IN THE FILM “THE COMMUTER”
  • ALICE’S PERILOUS TALES: MEMORY OF VEHICLE ACCIDENT I EXPERIENCE IN SLOW MOTION
  • ON FEARLESSLY WALKING THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Dear Ones,

SLOW MOTION TRAIN WRECK IN THE FILM “THE COMMUTER”

Quite recently I viewed the intriguing film “The Commuter” featuring actor Liam Neeson and a fine cast of characters …

Link: “The Commuter (film),” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commuter_(film) ..

I was struck by the honesty of the acting … how true the acting seemed to me. On the other hand I ought to advise that, as a Lightworker I found the action several times became too intense for me, and would put off watching the film at a certain point until the following evening.

This is frequently the case when I view movies. In fact, sometimes I need to give up on watching a movie entirely because of the intensity of violence in it. Perhaps that has happened to you as well? However, in this case there was something true about the acting that drew me back into continuing with the viewing night after night.

ALICE’S PERILOUS TALES: MEMORY OF VEHICLE ACCIDENT I EXPERIENCE IN SLOW MOTION

At time interval 2.28 – 2.40, where the forward passenger car upends and almost falls in slow motion on the occupied passenger car, I was struck by the similarity between this cinematographic depiction and a real life experience I had of a car crash and a ‘timeline walk-through’ …

Link: “Something New in Astral Stories: Part 2: Instantaneous Manifestation – and Alice’s Perilous Tales,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 7 February 2016; published on 11 February 2016; transcribed on 6 July 2018; text in teal font was added on 20 May 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-4Vw … See the section: Alice’s Perilous Tales: Story about a Timeline ‘Walk Through’

Link: “Alice’s Perilous Tales: On Being Alive,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 21 January 2016; published on 22 January 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-4PE … See the section: Alice’s Perilous Tales: The Terrible CanAm Highway Accident, and The Wisdom of India

In my case, though, it was not a train car, but a vehicle that hit a guardrail next to me at twilight, on the CanAm Highway near Socorro, New Mexico. The vehicle rolled across the freeway behind me, missing me by an inch or so, it seemed. I had that same sense of time slowing down and of monstrous peril about to crash down on me and my cat Lucy, who was my back-seat passenger on the trip.

Time stopped. Electromagnetically I felt two parts of the rolling vehicle break off. One zoomed behind me, along with the rolling vehicle. The other was on a trajectory to hit the back of the roof of my car (underneath which Lucy was sitting). I optimized my timelines … in a split second … as I floored the gas pedal on my winsome but wimpy Honda. Nothing could have been closer than the near miss with the whizzing piece of car that passed along the top of the back window of the car.

That was quite some Dark Attack, as I recall! Adding to the drama was the mysterious disappearance of any evidence of the incident when I circled back to help out.

ON FEARLESSLY WALKING THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH

I liked the movie “The Commuter” because it allows other people to have that same experience of a Dark Attack, and reveals that we may face such daunting moments with courage, and that there may be a happy ending, despite how dire our circumstances may seem to be at the time.

One of my favorite Bible passages has a like message …

4 “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” –Psalm 23:4 (KJV, public domain)

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written on 24 February 2020; revised on 30 April 2025
Previously titled: The Commuter Film: Dark Attack . The Valley of Death

See also my blog categories: Dark Attacks  …  and … Timeline walk-through

For how to ‘switch tracks’ to a more propitious timeline search my blog category: Timeline optimization

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Call to Action: Mortification of the Flesh and Christian Charity in Times of Crisis . by Alice B. Clagett

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Call to Action: Mortification of the Flesh and Christian Charity in Times of Crisis

Call to Action, CC BY-SA 2.0

  • LET THERE BE NO RETURN TO THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF OLD
  • WILL PLAGUE COMPEL US TO FLAGELLANT PARADES?
  • ON PERFECTING WORKS OF CORPOREAL MERCY
    • The Heroic Works of Charity of German Pastor Martin Rinkart During the Great Pestilence
    • Exhortation to Acts of Corporeal Mercy
  • HOW MAY WE LIVE AS CHRIST HAS ASKED, THROUGH THE COMING TIME?
    • Matthew 25:31-46
  • CONCLUSION
  • MORE INFORMATION
    • Christian Virtues
    • Plagues and Pandemics

Image: “The Flagellants,” by Pieter van Laer, ca. 1635, from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_van_Laer_-_The_Flagellants_-_WGA12368.jpg … This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less; PD-US

Image: “The Flagellants,” by Pieter van Laer, ca. 1635, from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_van_Laer_-_The_Flagellants_-_WGA12368.jpg … This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less; PD-US

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Dear Ones,

This is a call to action regarding the religious practice of mortification of the flesh, including self-flagellation, that some Christian denominations retain as a historical tradition. In noospheric tenor, these practices tie into the denser energy streams of sadomasochistic sexual practices and snuff sex that have, of late, ransacked the noosphere of Los Angeles, especially on the weekends.

Aside from the link-in with historic practices of fleshly mortification why is it that this relatively rare nuance of sexual behavior is such a standout in the Los Angeles noosphere of late? For more, I turned to this publication …

Link: “The Psychology of Sadomasochism: An Attempt to Explain Sadism and Masochism,” by Neil Burton, M.D., posted 17 August 2014, in Psychology Today … https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201408/the-psychology-sadomasochism ..

From that I learned that many seemingly innocuous forms of behavior, such as tickling, infantilizing, and love-biting … and perhaps, I would add, taunting and bullying, as are oft found online these days … play into the darker, denser energy streams of the relatively recherché world of sadomasochism. Thus we are all, willy-nilly, for the most part unwittingly, involved in the clearing of these dense energy strands from the Los Angeles noosphere at present.

My appeal today is to those who are consciously able to choose whether they will add to these denser noospheric energies of sadomasochism. I make this appeal because, as an intuitive person, I find these energies very difficult to bear, especially on the weekends in Los Angeles, and most particularly so during times of solar storm … even geostorms as mild as that which we experienced last night …

Image: Kp Index 11 May 2019 18:30:02 UTC, by NOAA/SWPC Boulder, CO USA … public domain. One Level 5 bar spike indicates that a mild geostorm (lasting three hours or less) took place.

Image: Kp Index 11 May 2019 18:30:02 UTC, by NOAA/SWPC Boulder, CO USA … public domain. One Level 5 bar spike indicates that  a mild geostorm (lasting three hours or less) took place.

In order to keep our personal Body of Light (aura, or energy field) pure and bright, I feel it is important to avoid injury to the body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit itself, in my sense of it, is injured by mortification of the flesh.

LET THERE BE NO RETURN TO THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF OLD

It is the work of a Christian to discover the Grace of God within, or so I believe. What can be farther from that goal than the undercurrents that apparently evolved, over the centuries, in organizations such as the historic Knights Templar? Having read this no-holds barred account of that evolution …

Link: “The Dark History of the Knights Templar,” from “Knights Templar’s Saga” at theunjustmedia.com … https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/templars/knights_templars01.htm …

… as well as this more tempered account …

Link: “Knights Templar,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar … More tempered.

… I have some concerns about the renaissance of the Knights Templar tradition by newly formed groups here in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States.

How is it that, in ages gone by, sincere members of devout religious orders have fallen prey to emanations of self-hatred and hatred of others through organizations founded for the best of reasons?

The answer, I feel, lies in the slight affinity aroused in the body to hatred of others through the practice of self-mortification …

Link: “Flagellation: Religious Practice,” written by Geoffrey Abbott, in Encyclopaedia Britannica … https://www.britannica.com/topic/flagellation ..

Through this ‘toehold’ of hatred of the body, flows forth into the noosphere hatred in all its forms: Hatred of women, abuse of children, envy at the sexual prowess of other men; hatred of this teaching or that of one’s own church, or of those of other Christian denominations; and finally, hatred even of the Light of God within, and turning to the abomination of Satanic ritual.

WILL PLAGUE COMPEL US TO FLAGELLANT PARADES?

Image: “Processione dei battanti di Guardia Sanframondi,” uploaded by Nicpac at it.wikipedia, 3 September 2007. Transferred from it.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:Fale using CommonsHelper; in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battenti_guardia1.jpg … CC-BY-2.0

Image: “Processione dei battanti di Guardia Sanframondi,” uploaded by Nicpac at it.wikipedia, 3 September 2007. Transferred from it.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:Fale using CommonsHelper; in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battenti_guardia1.jpg … CC-BY-2.0

In the mid-13th Century, processions of self-flagellants took place in central Italy with intent to mitigate a devastating plague. In current times we face another such plague, the scourge of HIV / AIDS, which leaves those of our children who are so infected unable to produce viable offspring.

In our nation’s capital, Washington D.C., according to Centers for Disease Control statistics published in 2016, the lifetime risk of contracting HIV was 1 in 13 people …

Link: “2016 HIV Lifetime Risk Statistics from Centers for Disease Control,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 30 March 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-c3f ..

Since 2016, no state-by-state statistics have been published. Yet the epidemic, I feel, is cresting in the congested urban areas of the United States, or will soon do so.

Until statistics are caught up, we cannot definitively know where we stand with regard to the HIV / AIDS pandemic. Meanwhile, shall we once more fall to the practice of publicly mistreating our bodies … whether in our streets, or on the silver screen?

ON PERFECTING WORKS OF CORPOREAL MERCY

The answer to the social stresses now testing the tensile strength of our democratic way of life lies not in hatred, not in acts of terrorism whether ultra right or ultra left, not in pogroms, not in vigilante justice, not in wanton waste of life, but in a learned and temperately discerning approach to the problems at hand.

Let us pay utmost respect to our bodies, the abiding temples of God’s loving kindness to us. It is this, the virtue of Christian charity … to ourselves as well as to others … that holds the answer to action in the world during this, the cusp of the HIV / AIDS pandemic.

In the Book of Matthew, Christ says …

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” –Matthew 6:16 (KJV, public domain)

I am put in mind of the biography of pastor Martin Rinkart, whose example I find  inspiring in these times of worldwide hardship …

The Heroic Works of Charity of German Pastor Martin Rinkart During the Great Pestilence

Image: “Martin Rinckart,” 1586, from http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienM/Martin_Rinckart.html … in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Rinckart.jpg …  This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less; PD-US

Image: “Martin Rinckart,” 1586, from http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienM/Martin_Rinckart.html … in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Rinckart.jpg …  
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less; PD-US

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Martin Rinkart (23 April 1586, Eilenburg – 8 December 1649) was a pastor who ministered to his flock in Eilenburg, a walled German town, during the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648.

In 1637, when the town was already worn down by war, the Great Pestilence took place. At that time the town of Eilenburg had four ministers. People from the surrounding area who were suffering from epidemic and famine sought refuge in Pastor Rinkart’s town.

As the plague-ridden entered the town, the townspeople became infected. One of the town’s ministers, no doubt overcome by a sense of impending doom, fled to healthier climes. The two other ministers stood by Pastor Rinkart, who saw them buried.

In the end, Pastor Rinkart was the only pastor left in Eilenburg. He conducted services for over 4,000 people, sometimes as many as 40 or 50 a day. In May of 1637 his wife died, which must have been a grievous personal blow to him. By the end of that year, the dead were being buried in trenches, and there were no services for them.

Under the most harrowing of personal circumstances, Martin Rinkart composed this uplifting hymn of gratitude for God’s myriad acts of loving kindness, a hymn that is often sung even today …

Video: “Now Thank We All Our God,” by BestLovedHymns, 15 November 2008 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6OA6YL-EIs ..

Exhortation to Acts of Corporeal Mercy 

Image: “Die Werke der Barmherzigkeit,“ by Pierre Montallier, ca. 1680, in Wikimedia Commons ... This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less; PD-US.

Image: “Die Werke der Barmherzigkeit,“ by Pierre Montallier, ca. 1680, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_Montallier_001.jpg … This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less; PD-US

Image: “Die Werke der Barmherzigkeit,“ by Pierre Montallier, ca. 1680, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_Montallier_001.jpg … This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 100 years or less; PD-US

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The examples of the many great saints of our Christian faith are like a beacon lighting our way in these difficult times. Like them, let us maintain hope in the face of the trials that stand before us. Let the heartbreak of many in our community lift us to faith in God’s sweet intention towards our Souls. Insofar as we may, let us speak to the pure Spirit within, so that we may find the courage to face calamity with equanimity, and the fortitude steadfastly to practice the Christian corporal works of mercy.

Let us feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, visit the imprisoned, ransom those held captive. and bury the dead.

Link: “Works of Mercy,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_of_mercy ..

HOW MAY WE LIVE AS CHRIST HAS ASKED, THROUGH THE COMING TIME?

Image: “Divine Mercy. Painting in Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Vilnius,” by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski, 1934, in Wikimedia Commons … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_of_the_Divine_Mercy,_Vilnius#/media/File:Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz,_Divine_Mercy,_1934.jpg … This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or less; PD-US.

Image: “Divine Mercy. Painting in Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Vilnius,” by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski, 1934, in Wikimedia Commons … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_of_the_Divine_Mercy,_Vilnius#/media/File:Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz,_Divine_Mercy,_1934.jpg … This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or less; PD-US.

There is a passage in Matthew 25 that speaks most poignantly to this time of Ascension on Earth. This passage brilliantly limns the manner in which we may choose to address the momentous days that lie before us, through works of mercy practiced in loving remembrance of Christ …

Matthew 25:31-46 (KJV, public domain)

31 “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 “And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 “And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 “Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 “Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 “Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 “When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 “Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

41 “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 “I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 “Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 “Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”

Surely none has spoken, nor likely ever will speak, more eloquently or to the point, than Christ himself has done. This passage sets us on a sure path through faith in Him, even in the face of  the most devastating hailstorm of temporal sorrow.

CONCLUSION

In these days of woe, shall we stand with Christ and act on his behalf? In truth, what we may do for the disempowered, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised people of Los Angeles, is what we may be privileged to do for Christ Himself in this lifetime.

It is the Body of Christ Himself to whom we minister. It is He whom we feed, whom we clothe, for whom we provide potable water, for whom we find lodging, whom we help to find a sure path after release from prison, and whom we seek to ransom from malefic entities … whether human or clothed in mists beyond our ken … who hold them prisoner.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 11 May 2019

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Christian Virtues

Link: “Seven Virtues,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_virtues ..

Plagues and Pandemics

Link: “Black Death,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death ..

Link: “Spanish Flu,” the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu ..

Link: “Compendium: HIV / AIDS Pandemic,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 2 March 2019; revised on 3 April 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-bPl ..

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