Jesus: Stand By Me

On my way to a spiritual retreat, I was overcome by rage at the universe and had a hissy fit in the car by myself (because where else can you do that?) and screamed said rage at whomever created this cruel idiocy we are living through.

After I calmed down, I thought maybe I was missing something, so I asked.

Ann: Jesus, do you have time for a quick word?

Jesus: Of course, my time is your time.  I was amused to hear you railing at the universe - and at our Creator in particular - for not having done a better job, instead of putting forth, “One of the most incompetent, ridiculous and cruel projects ever conceived."  

“What did we expect," you said, "When you placed an animal dependent on violence, cunning, and instinct for survival on a planet where life and death is pretty much a zero sum game, did you expect that animal to turn their back on survival, rise above basic instincts, and bathe themselves in the blood of the lamb?”  Do I have that right?

Ann: Well, when you put it like that - and I did at the top of my lungs - it sounds ridiculous. I knew at the time that I was being very immature and adolescent, but it was the way I felt at the moment, just came spewing out, and, as I am trying my best to open my heart to the way I really feel, I let it rip.

Jesus: You have come to the right place to do so. My child, my sister, my brother, mother and father, I understand. You said you had no choice, that you would never have chosen to live on a planet founded on basic cruelty and random suffering, for what rationally minded being would so choose?

I don’t think anything I can say can adequately address that concern because it is not of the mind, of the voice, or with words that such an elemental cry can be addressed. I know, I understand. “Father, why has thou forsaken me?" I cried in my darkest hour.

          I know you’re in pain, and I know you’ve belittled it as being so much less than others have suffered, myself included. However, it is all part of the same block, all part of the same distraction - or  incentive - if you will, that rules us to go deeper and deeper and deeper. And this is what we’re asking of you and, indeed, every mortal on the planet.  You have to get beyond the superficial layer, and that is the work of one or many lifetimes.

Ann: So I still work on a it, and, yes, I accept that there are saints among us who can get it done, but not very many, and for your average bear, I don’t see that transformation happening very often if at all. Certainly, so far not yet for me.

Jesus. Oh, how you underestimate yourself and your brothers and sisters! Each and every human being has a deep pocket, deep gravitas, deep roots, and a deep running vein of divine love that is the essence of your creation.

I know you wonder how a loving creator could put his offspring through such hell, the hell already here for many and the hell you see coming for your countrymen and for the human race and that this is part and parcel of your resistance to accepting the reality of this love. For if you do so, do you not condone the misery to which if the human race has been subjected, the tyranny of their instincts, hormones, and mortality?

But, my precious child, you go to the rational for answers when what is offered is irrational in its essence and whole in its salvation.

I could never explain to you why bad things happen to good people in rational terms.

But have you not noticed that what people need in times of tribulation is less doing and more being? Have you not yourself experienced what it is to have a friend sit by you when darkness comes, not fixing, but simply enduring, experiencing, being with you?

This is where we find our hope and consolation, where where we are joined with our Creator. This is where we lead you in times of tribulation.

Your cry to the heavens, one that is always answered, are in the words of the spiritual hymn , “Stand By Me.” In times of tribulation, stand by me. When the world has turned against me, stand by me, when my friends don’t understand me, stand by me, when I’m nearing chilly Jordan, stand by me.

          This is the answer to your cry or, perhaps, as you might say, the non-answer. And it is the non-answer that will serve you now.

And in this non-answer resides the Divine Blessing to you and who all traveled on this planet and by your sufferings and explorations expand the frequencies of human kind and, thereby those radiating through the cosmos. In the process, whether you know it or not, you quiet those dark forces who really had nothing to say. anyway.

Ann: Oh.

I guess you did have time for me.

Jesus: There’s always time, even a nanosecond is enough to create a world within your heart. Turn toward me and let that world be yours.

February 25, 2025

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