a beautiful fruit blossoms - love toward God.

This week I remember as the week when peple worry about swine flu which then becomes a very hot topic all around the world....

and also the flood in Brazil and .....

the arrest of Anti Corruption Committee Head of Indonesia, Antasari,

and also the the one year of official presidency of Dmitry Medvedev!

And by the way, this week has been so nice for me because I 'meet' a very great friend, Romanos (His blog, The Cost of Discipleship, click here)

And especially today, when I got a very nice and worthy tought to consider...

Ehm, actually I will not discuss about news or any politics here, just wanna share a nice thing that happen upon me, a little one during this precious time. Recently I read the book entitled Way of Ascetics by Titto Colliander (online version) that makes me reflect on how the spiritual person firstly and mainly desires to please God even this can be harmful for him or herself.

The next few hours after that, I listened to the podcast of Father Tom Soroka entitled "Enthusiasm for the Truth" one of his Sermon at St. Nicholas collection. That was really touching and yet encouraging podcast to listen, especially by Father Tom's description of the courage to take risk by Joseph of Aritmatea for asking Pilate for Jesus' body and how The Holy Myrhbearer Women showed their love toward the Lord, their fear after their visitation to the tomb and then how they are blessed by God and God said not to be affraid! That was so great!

And this morning, when I was pondering upon the passage of Genesis 15 that tells about the covenant of The Lord with Abram (later on Abraham). The first verse said "After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I [am] your shield, your exceedingly great reward." This is very interesting for me personally. Bacause God stated Himself as "your exceedingly great reward" for Abram.

And I think this is why we are made worthy to be called the spiritual son of Abraham who inherited the God's promised covenant with him and that all nation will be blessed trough his descendant. Because I believe that the very promise we inherrited from Abraham is The Lord himself to us, that is the greatest revelation ever in the history of human kind to him and to us! Because of his obedience and the love of God, his enthusiasm toward the Truth he trust in the Lord, God accounted it to him for righteousness and the same thing with our beloved Virgin Mary...

That is so great truth to describe the wonderful love of God, to marvellous and I don't have a single sufficient word to express it!

What or Who then do we desire today, here and now and forever above all things?

He is our exceedingly great reward for us. Not because of our own version of goodness and seekings. But because of His Grace, Mercy and Love to the humble and unworthy one.Those who seeks first His Kingdom and its rightousness, will certainly be glad and joyful and see and taste it-- even not only they but also the angels and the whole universe be joyful! And behold, He has already reveals himself and His Holy Body in the fulness of Grace of God for the sake of Love for His bride! Awesome!

Glory to Thee O God!

Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner!