A Sliding Doors Moment

 

Please allow me to write a hard lesson I have learned on Saturday regarding The Seal of The Living God. I’d hope by writing this that others who are part of Jesus’ Mission of Salvation for souls will also learn from it as to how important and Powerful The Seal of The Living God Prayer is and how God is telling us in no uncertain terms that He wants us to avail ourselves at given opportunities to hand them out to everyone to help them and their families be Protected in these times.

This is a ‘sliding doors’ moment. A sliding doors moment is a small, often mundane, decision or event that dramatically changes the course of a person's life, leading to significantly different outcomes.

I will try to detail the events so you can see what God told me very clearly with the event that unfolded just the Saturday gone.

As I was going to a class reunion 4 hours drive away and I hadn’t seen my classmates for 13 years, I decided that it may be the only opportunity to hand out to each of them, The Seal of The Living God prayer card. I gathered 25 A6 size and 25 wallet size Seals that were Blessed by a priest and placed them in my bag. Arriving after the given time, I tried to feel comfortable meeting with them again and found myself ‘sizing’ up who might have a problem accepting The Seal. I had no reason to actually, however I became fearful that I would be seen differently like a religious zealot of sorts. This gave me such reluctance.

One lady I found in conversation was prayerful and went to Mass so I quickly gave her both formats of the Seal and explained briefly what it was for. I thought that doing this would give me courage to hand the rest out.

At moments I would get ready with hand in bag to get one out if not just get them all out and hand them to everyone. The venue became quite packed and noisy and I became increasingly less confident in myself. Not really giving thought to what God needed me to do.

Nothing at that point was untoward in any way however we were all to learn in the evening on the news and then the next morning from the lady who organized the event, that her life was severely impacted by a tragedy. It was her cousin who was most dear to her, who was killed in his car at the hands of a man also now deceased, who stole the vehicle he was driving in.

Now to explain the ‘sliding doors’ consequence:

We know what happened when I hadn’t handed them each a Seal card as explained above, but what if I had chosen to do my duty as part of God’s special Mission to actually ensure each lady was given a Seal of The Living God prayer card?

Ok so this is how it became glaringly obvious as to how might God see my lack of fortitude.

Consequence 1: I handed the organizer the Seal prayer card, she reads it, as she reads it, she mentally holds all her family within it’s Protection. She puts it away but feels that it could be important enough and considers reciting the prayer on occasion perhaps.

Now her cousin’s life was in God’s Hands as are ours. So just say for instance, he was traveling on that road at that time but he was maybe a few seconds or minutes early or late and avoided the impact not realizing anything at all and the stolen vehicle might have continued on past. Nothing would have been thought about by anyone. No attention would have been given the Seal prayer card.

Consequence 2: But what if her cousin had to be in that collision- that is just what God Ordained. But with her being given the Seal, her cousin was found to be alive and even that the emergency workers, the police, the doctors were all astounded that he made it out alive, even to make a full recovery – a miracle one would say.

What would be on her mind seeing she had The Seal and she recited it just having read through it the one time. She would have heard the news and thought ‘Oh my goodness, that prayer card I was given, perhaps it saved my dear cousin’s life. She may have told others in her family, she may have written about it on the class reunion group chat to encourage the others also given it, through her testimony for them to take the Seal they also received, seriously.

In that case, God would have gotten these families into His Complete Protection because of the Promise He gave regarding those who receive and accept The Seal of The Living God. He would have been most pleased.

But instead I didn’t choose to give it to them. He had to show me in real terms just what can happen if we are given an opportunity and we renege on our duty that He encourages us to do for Him - to bring as many of His children this Gift – actually the Greatest Gift since He Sacrificed His Son on the Cross.

The choice I made had consequences. Far reaching – like a ripple effect and through my omission to do my duty, a family had been impacted by the worst event .

Why is there any connection you might be thinking?

Because of the time he died - as I knew I would be leaving near to 4pm I began thinking about handing them out at about 2.30pm. I had my hand in my bag ready to give out the Seals. He died around 3pm. Had I given those Seals out especially to the organizer, he may very well have survived. I know I am not responsible for his death – he was in God’s Hands, however I am responsible for not helping God spare his life.

So I am writing this for each of us to take careful consideration of what duty we have to God to hand out His Most Precious Gift to everyone – it is foretold to us in Scripture – that the evil one cannot touch a hair on any one of God’s children who have been given The Seal of The Living God – His Seal of Protection.

I have to reconsider my position naturally - rather than fear a repercussion for myself in how I might be judged or mocked etc, focus more on God’s Promise to those I need to help.

I loved all these women who had been my childhood friends – but I didn’t love them enough to want to help them be Protected tooth and nail. That’s a hard lesson to learn.

As for her precious cousin – my feeble way of reparation was to offer 30 Gregorian Masses for his soul so he can be released from Purgatory into Heaven on the 30th day from today. Not much consolation for the family at all. God will catch up with me about this event soon enough I expect which I welcome.

Hopefully writing this has made some sense. It's been an emotional day today with it being Keanu’s 33rd birthday if he was here to enjoy it.

If this can help any one of us in the Mission who have the Seal cards to give to others, please consider what can happen if we don’t.

Please add this man Levi .B. to your prayers for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.