Life in the Spirit Seminar

well, Daryl, Val and I have been attending the Life in the Spirit seminars every monday night for the past 7 weeks, and we've got 2 more weeks left before the commissioning mass. these past 7 weeks have been truely transforming. seriously. the speakers that came in for the talks, were the perfect people chosen for those topics, i've learnt that its not them speaking but i recognise its God and Jesus working through them with the help of the Holy Spirit.

here is where i tell you, among all the things i have taken home from the experience, the greatest lesson of all that i have learnt. the Holy Spirit is a person. someone with feelings, someone who can feel hurt and sad, and anger. and when you do something that isn't for the glory of God, the holy spirit within you is hurting.

yes, we are all temples of the Holy Spirit, we receive it at baptism, and at confirmation, but because of life and the hectic way that it is, He has become dormant within you, He is not active and living. and Brother Emmanuel said, "a passive christian is worse than a non-believer". you were chosen, and what are you doing with it? St Paul said, "go out, and make disciples of all the nations." when Jesus had died, the disciples locked themselves in the upper chamber for fear of the jews who would kill them, and persecute them. but that pentecost day when they received the Holy Spirit from God, there was no more fear, they knew that they had God on their side and everything would be taken care of. Today, there is no fear of being killed for being a christian, there is noone running after you or preventing you from telling people about the Risen Jesus who has saved us all. yet, how many people have we transformed?

we are all part of the body of Christ, and you are my brothers and my sisters in Christ, and that is why i am here sharing my experience with you. you cannot read what i have experienced and be transformed, you have to commit yourself to this 9 weeks and doing the daily prayer and reflection, and honestly, you will find yourself really living for Him, and noone else. yesterday, i did His work, i served the church, i prayed as often as i could, but i did not feel like He was truely living within me, walking beside me, living and walking on earth through me. today, i am filled with so much joy i want to laugh, and cry, and shout, and sing, all at the same time. i am filled with so much inner-peace, real inner-peace. a bomb could go off right next to me, and i will not panic, because i know He will take care of me. tomorrow, i dedicate every single thing i do to Him, everything i do is Him working through me, using me as his instrument.

if you want to see the model family, look at The Holy Trinity. they work together in such intimacy, and i feel that i am so close to understanding the mystery that is our Faith. i have never felt closer to knowing the secrets of the world, and life, and the Love that is Godly. its a big leap to take, your life will change, the materialism will cease, the things that seemed so very important to you now hold no water, but the happiness it brings you is so great. "the disciples behaved as though they were drunk" when they had received the spirit of God. i've never been drunk, and i always wanted to know what it felt like, but tonight, i experienced it through the out-pouring of the spirit that i'd received. and i've come to realise, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, are VERY REAL. to know them, you must first know the Word of God, the bible, because that is the only way to get to know them. and to live with them, is being a disciple. an active one, not a passive one.


Love.