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January-March, 2013

The End of the World

by Rev. Michael L. Ciavarella, O.M.C.

Well, the end of the world was two days ago. Everyone is smiling and feeling all triumphant that the world didn’t end after all. There actually were people out there who were terrified that the world could really end. Others were preparing to survive the world’s demise. I’m still scratching my head on that one.

Do we know for sure that the world didn’t end? Just because we are still here, does that mean the world didn’t just quit? What if the world ended and we didn’t know it? Is that even possible? Who said that the end of the world would come in violence?

Maybe the end of the world doesn’t look like we have been told it should look. Jesus certainly didn’t look like the disciples thought He should look. They wanted a king that would overthrow Rome and give Israel back to the Jews.

More recently, the baby-boomers were told that if they graduate high school and get a good job, they’ll be safe and secure well into their retirement years.

Nothing looks as we anticipate it should. Let’s say I win the lottery.

Does being wealthy look the way I think it should? Don’t get me wrong; having unlimited amounts of money is wonderful, but all I did was make a more pleasant dream. Not quite what we could call enlightenment.

So here we stand at the end of the world, the Mayan calendar ended and there has been no cataclysm; at least, not of biblical proportions.

This is our moment. It is our function to hold the Light in place while insanity seems to boil, churn and surge all around us. It’s not that everyone can’t do this because everyone can, but most of us forgot how.

That’s why we must remember at every turn of events, good and bad, that we are here to hold a place of peace and Light for ourselves as well as our brother.

It’s not a magic spell, neither is it a lost secret hidden in some cave in a faraway desert. Every time we put peace first, every time we hold a place of Light, every time we extend God’s Love out to a brother we collapse time and stand at the brink of eternity.

We are gathered in the Now. The past is only a memory and the future hasn’t happened yet. There is only Now. There is only Love.

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. It stands for the coming of Truth; the birth of Peace and Light. Once again we have the opportunity to extend all that the Father has given us to our brother and to ourselves. The responsibility belongs to us. His burden is light and His yoke is easy.

Maybe the world did end on the Solstice. We are forever. We are eternal. We stand here looking out at an eternal universe knowing that all the worlds in the cosmos may end, but the Father has given us eternal life.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Peace first.

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