Chapter 17
ETERNITY
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"Lord, I look back on the years, I remember 1959, the year I was born. More than thirty-nine years have passed since then; I think of the days I went to bed early, because in the morning, I had to go to the same, old, boring school.
I think back at all those nights in which I lied in my bed wishing that my father could come back. He died when I was thirteen.
I think , Father, of the anguish I felt during my military service. Before each jump, my mocking face, the arrogance of one who has to hide the terror of dying.
Today I find myself meditating with you, my God and Father; You're such a special person, different from all the ones I know in the world.
I look up to the skies, admire the large expanse of blue which time and time again welcomed my cry for help. Your sky has accompanied me each day of my life, and I believe it is a testimony of your power.
Many times I have sat by the sea in silence, observing the horizon blend with the sky. There I perceived your immensity, more as a feeling than as a definite idea.
I would like to know from you Lord, what you think of eternity; I would like to understand better how to take possession in a definite, indelible way, of this wonderful reality in my life.
Within me there is a struggle, my Father, between what my mind has always believed and the Scripture; a battle between pain, death, egoism and fear, and myself, an eternal being which will never die, I know that the riches you've given me are so great that I would like to know how to share them with others that they might enjoy them too."

 

"It is clear that my point of view is very different from yours; you were born on a certain day, in a certain year,; I have always existed 253.
You have grown and live today in a world which is immersed in death, it's unstable and false 254.
I am the creator of life, I'm stable through the centuries 255, I am the truth 256.
It's difficult to communicate to you a reality so different from the one you are used to. But I invite you to stop and think. Stop time in your mind , try to grip the moment in life, picture it with your eyes, breathe it in, open your mind to this reality, contemplate this fact: you are alive! You exist! You are !

Pretend that this moment will last forever, eliminate all the thoughts that normally trouble you and make you feel unstable 257.

Expand your mind to the promise that I, the Lord, the omnipotent, the one who created the sky, the sun, the sea and stars have made you! Your soul is in my hands and no one can take it away from me 258!

This is eternity. The more you know me, the more you will live in close contact with me and the more you'll be able to taste eternity; While you are on earth man can't offer you anything similar to eternity 259.

Think this thoroughly. This is what I meant when I said "Be at peace, I have won the world!"

Every man is conditioned by death, because he doesn't know my salvation 260.

But as long as you are in me you have won death, because I have won death for you 261.
Do not fear, trust in me with all your heart, with all your strength, with all your mind 262; overcome your uncertainties 263! Challenge the rules of this world by placing your faith in me!
Take hold of my promises 264, call out to me every day and taste the power of winning the world.
You will know, from experience, what it means to live in an eternal context, while living in a place, the earth, in which everyone leads an existence limited to time."

"Yes, o Lord, I want to believe in your Word; I want to ask you to change my mind, so that the Spirit may transform it from a mortal mentality to an immortal one, so that all my thoughts and my actions will develop in an eternal context and not be suffocated from our society's problems, without God.


No man, by no means, can achieve any goal without the help of GOD.

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