I know a man I met in a dream________

I know a man I met in a dream—----

 He said to me “listen to your heart, what does it say as you go your way?”  “Is there love or disdain that is guiding your desires?”   The path we walk is loaded with so many pitfalls, they will trip our feet and bury us in doubt.  

Now it isn’t the words of unread truth that seem to sway our eyes from hope!  It is the shroud of pleasure that takes our hand and as we walk with a blindfold touching our sense of Christ’s Passion we can only see lies that turn us away. 

Faith is the one attribute that presents our journey to heaven that too many avoid because it requires an effort that is covered with false snort-comings. “ Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.”  (Heb 11: 1).  

Through the Church, its ministers, and the Magisterium of the Church, we are taught about Faith, Grace, and the Truth who is Christ that must become a constant input into our daily acceptance of God's Presence within us.  

The Apostles Creed professes that God is “Creator of heaven and earth.”  The Nicene Creed makes it explicit that this profession includes “all that is seen and unseen.”  (CCC 325).   

Of all visible creatures only man is “able to know and love his creator.”  He is the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake, he alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life.  It was for this end that he was created, and this is the fundamental reason for his dignity:  (CCC 356).  What made you establish man in so great a dignity?  Certainly the incalculable love by which you have looked on your creature in yourself!  You are taken with love for her; for by love indeed you created her; by love you have given her a being capable of tasting your eternal Good.  (footnote to 356).

In the realm of understanding the grace of God and how much it declares our acceptance into heaven we must listen to the truth that comes from an undeniable source; the words of scripture that will lead us in the right direction.  

The Scriptural expression “heaven and earth” means all that exists, creation in its entirety.  It also indicates the bond, deep within creation, that both unites heaven and earth and distinguishes the one from the other: “the earth” is the world of men, while “heaven” or “the heavens” can designate both the firmament and God’s own “place” - “our Father in heaven” and consequently the “heaven” too which is eschatological glory.  Finally, “heaven” refers to the saints and the “place” of the spiritual creatures, the angels, who surround God.  (CCC 326).  

It is Christ, the Man of God, who is God’s own Son, who spoke to me as he speaks to all of us.  Heaven is our final desire that should open to us a place of eternal rest as we enter into eternity with him, forever.  

Ralph B. Hathaway