From a moment in questioning life we find the Holy Spirit of God

It isn’t a quest of getting an answer for what the world seems to hand us, it becomes the ability to stand up and absorb the same unknown that confronted Christ before he was nailed to the Cross. We are made of flesh and blood and each body part is at the mercy of anything that will harm us even to our death. Jesus had no idea what to expect as he was being nailed to that tree; but he could only bear something that no human could even endure without pain that would be overbearing and finally take his life.

Any person who is without the pain and suffering because of disease or broken bones cannot understand the time and difficulty of what the body must go through while it heals. Once that process completes itself and the suffering person can jump up or at least stand on their feet can relate how they felt during that interlude. No matter what their bout with a debilitating attack on their body was from or the time it took to get through the healing process the patient is able to realize that the Holy Spirit had a lot of or all of the period of total healing. This is the need to reach out to God and begin to understand just what this human body must endure while it goes through life’s trials of sickness or injuries as it grows in a human existence.

Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethseminee and cried out to his Father, as he hung between heaven and earth waiting to die, was in no position to plead since only God, his Father, would understand his dilemma, but knew he was the ransom to forgive as payment for our sins.

Was the Father of his only Son aware of the penalty you and I placed upon Jesus by our constant rejection of what the Father gave humanity and we through our parents, Adam and Eve, ignored the promise of eternal life by closing that enmity to Creation? Yes, the Holy Trinity knew before the Incarnation of Christ what he would have to go through and collectively understood and agreed to this only method to forgive you and I for our sins.

Believing that our connection with the Holy Spirit is not just a spiritual entity, we must adhere to the fact that he dwells within our psyche and human body. It is here that we find the divine essence within us and share in his everlasting grace of mercy.

We are but dust taking form from our creation and as our humanity struggles with the adversity of unwanted crisis in our existence we must bear the same suffering that Christ bore as he walked the Via Dolorosa to his Cross. The path is the same for each of us. Without the Cross Salvation is not possible.

Ralph B. Hathaway