When I was a jury member at court the presiding judge gave us a crash course in law. The most important point he made right at the start: 'It is actually you, who are the judge, not me. My task is to ensure that procedures are followed correctly but the judgement has to be made by you jury members. You ARE the judges. And I will decide the sentence accordingly to your judgement.' Many in the jury felt very uncomfortable at the very thought, and were not there voluntarily, which made it at times extremely hard to even discuss the facts without people taking different degrees of views regarding the crime - as some had a lower moral standard than others, just like in wider society.
In our society there is an element of not wanting to take responsibility for one's actions, and almost anywhere we are told in the advertising 'we deserve this or that', 'we should cheat', and we are constantly encouraged by the media to not judge, lest we do not want to be judged. The whole point is, when we serve God and are responsible human beings, then we live our lives in a holy way, so that we can be judged anytime for anything we think, say or do. At least, that is, how I live and how I raise my daughter. We are aware that God can judge us anytime, and that all of heaven knows, sees and hears, what we are doing, saying and thinking.
In my professional training I was also taught to constantly monitor my actions and to be able to explain, why I did make this decision and not another. And I also practice this in my daily life - I let myself guide by God; it is Jesus Christ's voice of my conscience that makes me tick and act in the best possible way for my child and my neighbourhood, my home and all, who are in my care and, of course, for myself and in my community.
We are all called to take up our responsibility, and politicians, if they want to stand a chance to be taken seriously anymore, better start living up to their words, and to lead by example a life that does not need diplomatic immunity but that has moral standards that are not in need of impunity. We are all called to serve God and our family and community selflessly, and much has gone wrong with the role of a father and mother and with the maltreatment and neglect of the sanctity of holy matrimony and the God-given gift of life.
Man must not play God - I would NEVER try anything that is against God's commandments, and when a couple cannot conceive, then God has a reason for this, and He might have other plans for them to be beacons for their wider family or community.
We must also not abuse our spiritual gifts to push the boundaries of science to a point that we mess up the delicate and beautiful and by God created balance of forces. Science is a tool to try to marvel in God's creation, but if we mess with it, then we are mocking the Holy Spirit.
Holy matrimony is the first gift that God gave to Adam and Eve - and it is sacred to husband and wife, and from this unity and being holy as one in flesh and in the act of love serving God and give all glory and devotion first of all to God is the kind of light that is the purest of all - when a husband and wife joined by God in heaven think and do their all to make each other happy and wish nothing but happiness to the other and together to serve God in the act of lovemaking. Any child that is conceived in this holy act will be holy and then in the continuity of leading a holy life as a family we raise God's angels on earth, with a natural outlook and ease of the wholeness and holiness of a life in the bosom of a holy family that lives to serve God as a unity, and that is aware of the roots of its souls and history of a people and family.
I grew up and raise my child in the awareness that we either live in voluntary blessed celibacy or in holy matrimony, and indeed, no two people can truly be happy as a couple and will never be one wholly and in holiness, if their souls have not been joined by God in heaven. To be married 'in the eyes of God', that is the only blessing that truly counts. No civil partnership nor vow on earth that has not had this joining of souls in heaven witnessed by other holy souls present, can replace or fulfill this special bond between two souls. And God has a way to prepare these two souls years ahead for each other, before they even meet. If we truly listen to our hearts, then we will always know - we get into trouble and loose our way, if we don't. That is, when things start to go pearshaped.
So, sexuality, in my view and in my belief, is the most intimate, beautiful and harmonious and wholesome holy tool to serve God and the souls God joins us with, in holy matrimony. And when we are separated for some reason outside our control, then we nurture this love in many other ways, God shows us, how. It goes without saying that in a holy relationship faithfulness comes naturally.
When we are single we focus our gifts on our family, our friends and our community and work, and again, we are being shown the most wondrous ways by God to do so most creatively.
To me, most discussions in the public I find most disturbing and painful, if they encourage and aim at immorality as the norm.
One cannot please many masters and one cannot serve many masters at the same time, and my Master is God, the ONE God, and what He commands to me is my life. Full stop. That clashes these days a lot with what is sadly being taught and spread widely, and I feel that as a society we are more and more lost in political correctness than in God's law - we must look to those, who do follow Jesus Christ's way alone, the way of the truth, as only the truth can heal and lead to justice. And law and order that come from God are the only living values that will ultimately help us survive and thrive, not compromise in the sanctity of holy matrimony and in neglecting a holy life as a family.
John Donne has held a beautiful sermon on this subject, and one wonders, why these days so-called churches do not simply remember the simplicity of God's commandments - and Jesus Christ even simplified them by saying I AM the way, THE truth and THE life. If we simply follow this simple way we would never purposefully hurt another and certainly not offend each other and especially not God.
I am shocked and saddened evermore, how
so many unashamedly and unblushingly blaspheme God and the Holy Spirit, and they should not fool themselves, that God will not take them to task on this one day. If we live our life in the understanding that every day could be our last and we could face God's judgement also in this life at anytime, then we would not mess around so much. God sees and hears everything, and it is Him, who gives and takes life and attaches or detaches an angel's wing, and He demands from us, to judge, when He commands us to, foremost ourselves, so that we can stand up to those, who against Jesus Christ, and His family of the Holy Rose commit all sorts of crimes and heresy in the bookshelves. It is about time, that we started to judge ourselves, and remember that, as I learnt in court very quickly, all is being reduced just like in the heavenly court one day: 'Guilty' or 'not guilty'. And, in court, there do not exist fifty shades or more of grey but every evil is reduced to 'yes' or 'no' - and that is the time, where even a criminal will ultimately start to realise that he would have not committed his crime, if he had known that one day his deed would be so clearly outlined as for what it was: inhuman, evil, vile. And he would have wished, he had been rather walking for the truth instead of for lies the extra-mile.
Mathair Sigrid Eliora
