Christian Catholic Mystic Hermit: St. Anthony the Hermit-then-Abbot, and God

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God Is Love.  God is not a system nor structure, not a set of rules, rituals, canon laws, human-created traditions or constructs, not that which is not.

What is Christ's Church?  Christ as Head and His followers the Body--this is Christ's Church.  He gave us His Life and salvation, His example and teachings, He chose out of many followers, disciples, 12 apostles with one as leader, to demonstrate the following of Christ after He ascended, the going out into all the world to spread the Good news and to live and love as Christ taught and lived and loved.  At the Last Supper He spoke of many things and gave us a means of remembering Him--by breaking bread and partaking it as His Body and drinking of the cup of wine as His Blood.  He sent the Holy Spirit to be with as teacher and guide, as Paraclete. 

My waking thoughts, not necessary to do as much as to be.  I remember God as He is in me and with me always, and I am in Him always.  I consider what such persons as Paul and Anthony thought about and lived out in their lengthy lives.  What would they write?  They lived in God and pondered Him, loved God, loved His Living Word, loved others, loved Christ's Head and His Body, loved life that God gave them.  All very simple even if challenging as life and love and the great desire for God can be.

I'd not have come to this had it not been for the Catholic Church passageway and all the great souls and their lives lived that I've met in their writings and biographies.  I'd not have found others like me, the mystics, who help me understand the sense of not fitting in, but that it's all right because we fit in with God, are His, and we do not belong to the world.  

That is why we are misunderstood and mistreated at times, particularly by those who are defined by system and structure, rules and canon laws, human-created traditions and constructs--and that might work for them.  I would not know.  My place is more with the likes of Paul and Anthony, of Mary of Egypt and Mary of Bethany as they were known to others, but God knew them as of God, of Him, of His Real Presence in their unceasing communion.

I'm ever grateful for the passageways in life which provide the learning and experiences to grow and to discover what and who we are and to whom we belong and where: what is not and more so what is.  What is love and what is His Church and Who Is God.

God bless His Real Presence in us!