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Why the tears? Or better, when?
The answer lies in one word and the coming into being and reality of this word is the beginning of all sufferings. In other words, all sufferings are offsprings of this word.
Hmm!? So what's the word?
- Well, before presenting the word we need to know who are its parents.
Let's go meet the parents first.
In the beginning, God creates....
First: the light.
Second: the universe.
Third: the earth.
Fourth: the plants.
Fifth: the animals.
And finally: the human beings.
In the material realm, not the spiritual, none of God's creation has an ego, for none can address itself as an "I" or a "me" but the humans.
A tree, a dog, a cat, an elephant, a whale, a moon, a sun and a galaxy, none can say "I am," except for "you" and "me."
- Isn't that great?! Yup.
Now everyone knows the artist, the author or creator of anything is the owner of his or her own creation. God creates everything so everything belongs to God.
And everything also includes everyone.
Everyone is so happy knowing everything belongs to God. Even happier when God says to the humans, "Sons and daughters, I give you all. Take care of it. But remember, you are Mine."
- Wow! Wonderful!
Then one day - a forgetful day but unforgettable, a word comes and speaks to the humans. His name is "O...f." Yup, that's still his name: "Of."
He points at everything and asks the humans, "Isn't that all yours?"
At first, the humans were a bit confused but then "Of" suggests, "Feel it. Yup, fe....e....l it," he adds, "Don't you feel they're all yours?!.... Sure they are."
Then that's it. Tears start rolling.
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| Ha! Ha! Ha! Y'all mine! Mine! Mine! |
The humans were ecstatic. They laughed out with a belly laughter, "Everything is mine now! Yup, "All mine.... ha! ha! ha!"
When the ecstatic laughter ends, suddenly silence.... Then their senses come back and they start remembering: "Oops! We made a mistake, a grave one."
They realize, "We completely forgot about the One Who creates all - everything and everyone, including us. We just forgot about WHAT'S HIS NAME???.... Let's see, The Unknown All-Knowing Knower?!... The Uncreated Ever-Creating Original Artist?!... The One Who Is?!.... How could we?!"
They keep repeating to themselves, "How could we?!"
Emotionally confused and mentally conflicted, tears once again flow. This time, tears of suffering.
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| How could we?!!! |
So that was the origin of suffering and the beginning of tears.
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Huh?! That doesn't make any sense. What's this all about?
- Simply put, the beginning of suffering and origin of tears.
So, when the tears? And what's the word that causes all sufferings? Those are the questions at the outset, aren't they?
- Yup, right! And here it is: You feel pain and heartache everytime you lose something or someone. Why? Only because they belong to you. They are yours.
You can only suffer when you have something or someone you call "mine." Tears flow when you lose what is "mine."
The formula is this:
1. Me + Of = Mine.
2. Reality = Nothing is mine.
3. Mine + Reality = Tearful Suffering.
There's no pain with "me" nor with "of" but when they marry each other to become "mine," suffering begins.
When "mine" meets "reality," "reality" says "nothing is yours" but "mine" resists forcefully and reacts violently. "Mine" vehemently rejected "reality," but "reality" remains "reality" so "mine" starts deteriorating. It then breaks down into tearful suffering, for it can't have nor keep anything.
The reality is this. The connection between "me" and everything as well as everyone is "of." In fact, "of" is the glue that connects "me" to the world. But when the time comes, "reality" sets in and the glue doesn't stick nor want to stick anymore, "me" has to let go. Otherwise continuous suffering.
The Lord God did say clearly: "You are in the world but not of the world," didn't He?!
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| Yep, He did! |
Consider this: "Are you yours?!"
Take a breath and take a look again: "Am I mine?!"
Remember what God said when giving you all?
- You are Mine!
. . . . He too suffers so much for it and hence this season, the Lenten.
Breathe out . . . now into the all-pervading and ever-patient presence of the Most Merciful God, The Holy Ghost.
God bless y'all.
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