Jesus is the King of Israel.
He came to save his people from their sins.
Who are his people? Israelites?
Israelites wrote the various books of the Bible.
Of the twelve apostles, only Paul was sent to the Gentiles.
Paul told Gentiles how to become Israelites.
Gentiles took Paul's works and assembled the Bible.
Then they created the Gentile Church, ... and scorned the name of Israel.
When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
“You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.
Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:14-20 NIV)
The woman with an infirmity had faith...
Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”
Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment. (Matthew 9:20-22 NIV)
Peter eventually had faith, and so did the people who saw what he did...
The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed. (Acts 5:12-16 NIV)
When our shadow is changing lives, we can be confident we have faith. Until then, we must ask for more.
The Pharisees knew the Scriptures, but they did not have faith.
Jesus came to show us how to do our jobs. His Father will put us through tests to build our faith.
13:11 The fifth sign that you are approaching the end of the Karmic Cycle is that you begin having recurring dreams about each other, synchronicities that seem to connect you beyond time and space, and a growing sense that something is about to change in the dynamics between you. Jung studied extensively communication through the collective unconscious and realized that truly compatible souls maintain a psychic connection that transcends physical distance and conscious communication. During the period of individual transformation, this unconscious connection continues operating, and as both approach the level of maturity needed for conscious reunion this psychic communication intensifies perceptibly. You might begin dreaming of them with increasing frequency, and the dreams can have a different quality from normal dreams, more vivid, more loaded with meaning, leaving alasting impression even after you wake up.
Jung understood these dreams aren't just projections of conscious desire, but genuine forms of communication between two souls that remain connected at the deepest levels of the psyche. They can serve as preparation for physical reunion, helping both process and integrate the transformations they've experienced individually and energetically prepare to meet on a completely new frequency. Synchronicities also intensify during this final phase of the Karmic Cycle.
Jung defined synchronicity as meaningful coincidences that suggest a deeper connection between apparently separate events, and in the context of compatible souls these synchronicities can become so frequent and specific it's impossible to ignore them. You might find references to them in unexpected places, might receive messages that seem to come directly from them through other people or situations, might encounter symbols, numbers, or words that are clearly connected to your relationship. Jung saw these synchronicities not as coincidences but as evidence that you are being guided by forces operating beyond individual consciousness, preparing the ground for a reunion that will happen at the right time.
But here's the most important aspect Jung discovered about the end of the Karmic Cycle. The reunion of compatible souls never happens through conscious effort or manipulation. It happens naturally and organically when both reach the necessary level of maturity, and usually happens in a way neither could have planned or predicted.
Jung observed that trying to force or accelerate this process always results in more separation because it indicates at least one of the souls hasn't completely done the inner work necessary to sustain a conscious union. The real reunion happens when you become energetic magnets for each other again, but on a much higher frequency than when you first met. When this reunion finally happens, Jung said it's immediately recognizable as qualitatively different from all previous encounters between you. There's no longer the desperate need, the possessiveness, the emotional games, the unresolved projections that characterized earlier phases of the connection. Instead, there's a sense of deep recognition, a peace that transcends initial romantic enthusiasm, a quiet certainty that you've arrived at a place where you can finally build something lasting together. Jung called this the hieros gamos, the sacred marriage that happens when two individuated souls unite consciously, maintaining their individuality while creating something greater than the sum of their parts.
I had prayed to dream about her, and it happened. I hope it happens more.
It was vivid, memorable, delightful.
I'm not going to give any details about the dream because I want to see if she was affected.
I was writing this update when I needed to leave to go see a movie. The transcript (above) from the video was complete, but the actual update was hardly started.
The Library was showing "Logan's Run," a dystopic sci-fi film from 1976, for its 50th anniversary.
I saw the movie once when I was in college and remembered little about it, ... except for the heroine, of course. I wanted to see it again because I now realize Hollywood movies gave disclosure about what the elites were planning for our future.
What struck me most was how the premise of the film demonstrated how lies are easily accepted and become entrenched by the masses when life is easy and full of pleasure. There's lots to unpack in this movie, although it got a bit long, even at 118 minutes. Jenny Agutter kept me riveted, however.
When I saw this scene, I smiled and shook my head...
Synchronicity. That composition was similar to the arrangement of my dream.
On my way home, I knew how to finish this update.
Perhaps my next dream will be synchronistic with other parts of the movie...
Oh, I hope so.
What would be much better, of course, is real life.
Many of us quote Jesus and say to our Father, "Your will be done." But do we really mean it? Do we, instead, end up doing our own will anyway?
I needed to go to the grocery store yesterday, and had been putting it off for several days.
My wife and I went to Kroger a lot before she died, but she also went to Family Fare occasionally. She liked how FF was quiet and relaxed, ... and not busy. Apparently their prices are higher so fewer people shop there.
My wife died during the "plandemic" hysteria and Kroger (incorporated) played the hoax to the hilt. They shut off the bottled water station, pushed face-coverings and continually made announcements about the "virus" propaganda. I got tired of it and started going to Family Fare myself, just to get some peace. Kroger was also the place where my wife collapsed and where I had to go to retrieve our car.
It's been over four years since my wife departed, and I have shopped at both Family Fare and Kroger. Both were providing me with personalized coupons based on my previous purchases, which is pretty creepy if you think about it, but in the past few months FF stopped sending them.
I ran out of a certain type of sriracha sauce I had found at FF and have not been able to find it elsewhere, so yesterday I decided to go to FF to get my bottled water and groceries. I knew I had the Kroger coupons, but I left them at home. As I was getting ready to back the car out of the driveway, I struggled to remember I would be going to FF. I knew if I had proceeded without thinking my constantly-running intuition would have taken me to Kroger. I had to think about driving and making navigation decisions.
When I got to FF, I loaded up a shopping cart (trolley) with my nine empty gallon bottles and went into the store. When I got to the bottling station there was a notice taped to it saying it was out of order and apologizing for the inconvenience. I chuckled and realized I had been waived off of going to FF for a reason.
So, I wheeled my cart back to the car, reloaded the bottles and drove to Kroger. Once I was at Kroger, I obtained a cart, loaded it with my bottles and ... realized I did not have my Kroger coupons. Ugh.
I put the bottles back into the car, returned the cart to the parking lot livery and drove the half-mile back to my house, retrieved the coupons, and then proceeded to return to the store and go through the ritual with the bottles again.
Once inside the store, I started shopping for vegetables because they are just inside the door, and realized my bottles were still empty. My usual practice is to fill them first, but I had not done it at Kroger in quite some time so I was disorganized. My intuition and thinking processes were not meshing.
I should have gone to Kroger in the first place. My will was to go to FF, but The Spirit wanted me to go to Kroger. Why, I did not know, but I presumed He knew what He was doing.
I filled my jugs, got my groceries, went home, put things away, and then went to the coffee shop to say goodbye to a friend who is moving out of state. When I got home again, I took a nap.
Upon waking from the nap, I knew I was supposed to walk to my daughter's house and offer her my wife's patio furniture. I knew they would be there (both of them), and it was something I was supposed to do. (My girls are still not talking to me after four years, as I discussed in other posts.) It was clear to me it was the Father's will that I do that, and the interaction took place. I believe He prepared me to hear Him through my self-will experience regarding Family Fare and Kroger.
I did what I was led to do with my daughters and it is in God's hands now. I can move on.
This morning, I realized why I was supposed to go to Kroger and not Family Fare. This song was playing in Kroger as I shopped...
These irises were in the gardens around our house when we moved in during the Spring of 2006. At some point, I transplanted them to their current location.
Early on, my wife bent down and smelled one of them. She said they smelled like root beer.
She was right.
Some people call them "flags," probably because they are up around Flag Day, a week from tomorrow.
Spring is especially melancholy for me. Flowers. She loved them and the senses they invoked.
His apprentices did not have faith... 
