What will happen to us?

Today is my birthday. Thanks to all who sent me greetings. My healing/prayer group threw a birthday party for me out in a lovely park in Glendale, AZ. We had our weekly prayer meeting today and once again we talked about forgiveness. But the forgiveness we asked for was not just for ourselves. All asked for help for their family and friends who are having such a difficult time adjusting to the fallout of our wastrel ways. So many are becoming physically ill through their constant worry about the financial and social upheaval that has just begun to wreak havoc on the unprepared.
My group is made up mainly of senior citizens who see so much of what they had hoped to pass on to their children and grandchildren eroding and collapsing. They ask me what we can do to help those who are struggling to establish meaningful careers and those whose dreams of a secure predictable life are quickly fading.
My answer to them and to any of you who are finding this unfolding rite of human passage difficult, if not downright unbearable is that the times are what they are. The times are what they have always been. The time now is about a miraculous growth in our relationship with our Creator, the world and each other. If we had continued on the path of self-destruction that we once considered normal life, our entire species would have been destroyed. Our creators and guides have warned us just as the prophets of old warned Israel.
We do not exist to glorify humanity. The glory of humanity which is kinship with our Creator will be bestowed on those who have been invited. We cannot invent machines or societies that will satisfy our hunger for glory, for becoming God. Our Creator sent His Son to manifest real glory and expected us to follow in that light. Most have ignored this and have chosen to seek the carnal god of money and power. What's new about that? What's new is that now we are on the verge of doing something godlike, destroying the earth and ourselves. This "godness" we do not need. So, another invitation is being sent out. As were the others, it is wrapped in the skin of sacrifice. Our Creator will never give up on us. Look around, the way now is clearing for an even closer relationship with all the members of the Body. We have to come together or perish with the uninvited.
Our spiritual leaders need to step up and identify themselves even at the risk of ridicule. Others need to look for this leadership. This Most Holy Renaissance is practical as well as spiritual. New ways of physical and spiritual healing will be gifted to those who minister this renewal. Those who will not trust will wither on the vine and pass into the afterlife as ghosts of what they could have been.
The faithful have been invited. Those priests who answer yes will survive the tumult. Our Creator will not waste this world or His children. He has sent help. Pray for your ordained clergy. Pray for all who minister His Word whether titled or not. The Good news is real for all. Our churches have only to accept their role and be prepared to share in these enhanced gifts without judging the invited. Forgive our enemies, "Feed my sheep."
Fr. Rod