Friday, December 28, 2001 9:07 AM

Do something you can show God

The following letter was received just before Christmas:

It is for me an intense experience to have joined TLIG after Vassula’s first visit to Lima, Peru. I learned about the messages of Jesus and God to Vassula through Javier and Teresa Barbagelata. I remember, they came to my house to pray for the health of my son Miguel Angel. At that time they were taking care of the messages coming from Peña Blanca, in Chile, were our Holy Mother had appeared herself during the hard Pinochet days.

What I want to mention is that in spite of my acceptance of the Catholic Church and the Bible I was far away from God and my participation was only theoretical. I was concious of knowing what the truth was about, and that knowing it, I was in real danger for not doing anything to live in Christ, although I admired him and was sure of his being the Son of God.

My son’s “accident” was taken by God as an opportunity to teach me to know Him, and how intimate this experience has become. Nevertheless, I still remained at armslength, avoiding His embrace, not that I don’t want to be one with him, no, I want it so much, and life in this world has lost its attraction, vis a vis True Love in God. In a certain way I did come to think that the sooner all this was through the better. However I have come to realise that He, in his infinite patience and mercy with all of us, and of course particularly with me, he keeps us on earth just to see us perform something for him. Some deed we might show him.

Years have passed, and it is only recently that I have come to understand that what he expects from us is a demonstration of our love to Him, by giving Him our will in doing what he expects from us, and for that purpose he puts the opportunities for us to “kick the ball into the goal”.

our last meeting, the BM subject was mentioned again, but this time I was determinated to keep it on the table. So as soon as it was mentioned as a pending matter and were done with it, I just brought up the subject again. And again, until ideas, proposals, started pouring in. First timidly, then trying to rely in some hired people to cook. We kept pressing for a commitment of ourselves. Once a week, in an empty house, is not much for a team of 20 or more. It means once a month, nothing impossible to achieve even if we have to work, and thus we need permision from our bosses. An empty house became available. So that is moving.

Second, my son’s medicare is a burden, however now I know what God expects of me. Here in Peru, if some member of your family becomes disabled through severe brain damage, there is no institution to take care of them. So that is something I will have to takle. I will have to pick it up and carry it until an institution, a Christian institution, starts and in it, a grain of my will will be in, and a grain of my love. God already played His part, he sent to me a lady who heads a group of institutions, some of them related to disabled children, and she has fallen in love with my son: in spite of him being completely unconnected, she loves him as if he were his son. She has three of her own, nevertheless she takes my son to her house, always we allow whatever she wants.

Pray that I do not give up since I am alone in my family in this work. I hope this Christmas will bring others into this work. This meditation is my Christmas present to all of you…. go ahead, do something you can show God.

Juan Alfonso Aspillaga