Remembrance
is a commandment of God
of all human nations.
Hence,
a lack of remembrance
breeds a certain contempt
of the sacred.
Either one draws away from the sacred,
placing it in a place - out of reach of the heart.
Or one becomes enraged by it,
making of it an enemy of the heart.
- selah -
A person who looks for God
who has not the remembrance of God in the heart
looks for Him in vain.
He or she may seek God
in the heavens or on the earth
and God shall nowhere be found
for that person.
The great scandal of this is
that this person may claim that God is not -
where in fact, he or she has closed the eye of the heart
to the Presence of the LORD in all things,
seen and unseen.
The remembrance of our war dead
(across our nations, civilian and military)
likewise belong to the realm of the sacred.
(For as the sacred fulfills all - and - draws all,
so must the quality of our timeless remembrance be
for all national remembrances are human remembrances
and rightfully belong to the common memory
of the spirit of our humanity.)
- selah -
In an increasingly materialistic society,
where God is being everywhere forgot,
- a healthy regard for the sacred -
soon becomes an uncommon virtue.
What lies beyond the veil of time,
where all unity must always proceed
(for it is in the spirit where all unity is begun),
in unseen realms beyond the nature and scope
of the physical and the temporal,
is where a healthy sense of sacred remembrance
grounds the human heart.
Where remembrance
is increasingly becoming scarce,
there shall in its place be a growing lack
of a sense of connection with history
and with each other.
For
all truly human relationships
are spiritual connections.
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(produced 20110710)