Reflections On Reflections

SUN., DEC. 4, 1994, 5:25 AM
FARM, STUDY

The opportunity today to be part of the memorial service for My servant Clara has brought you back to your “journal,” the Teachings from Me, and the Ruminations using these… all about the trip to Cuba, nearly four years ago. In some ways it was a memorable experience. In other ways it was an experience among many, with recollections of it fading. You reflected upon that time and place, and so did I. Since you’re up and here I’ll give you some further reflections that may help with this morning’s task.

Overall, you are glad that you made that trip, for aspects of it still remain, some very clear in mind pictures. Among My reflections at the time and shortly after I urged you to have some pride in your country, for you were seeing and hearing pride in some of the Cubans. Yet your country’s policy is so ridiculous that, in this instance, it is hard to feel pride in such unjustified “punishment.” You would have thought that this “hard line” would have softened by this time, but it hasn’t… and with the more conservative Congress no positive change seems likely.

As I see it, in the name of “anti-communism,” which denies Me rather completely, your “Christian nation” tries to prevent this small country from prospering, even from surviving. Your attack is not with guns, but in a slower way it is equally destructive. It is a continuing policy and action of which you should not be proud. Often I consider intervening, but I do see spiritual growth happening, as it often does in stark conditions. But don’t be surprised if I should choose to take some action. If your country’s policy should change you can be rather sure that I am involved, somehow.

For this occasion you wish that your memory of Clara and of your over-dinner conversation were more extensive and clear. She was a servant who “sang the Lord’s song” in a time when it was not officially welcomed. It was her own land, but in relation to Me it was potentially oppressive. Yet she persisted in her quiet way, when women pastors were rather suspect. One of the positive policies of communism was, and is, its push for equality of all, which, in Cuba’s case, worked against a patriarchal culture. Thus, one important principle of this godless philosophy served to help Clara be the pastor I was calling her to be.

It is good to give thanks for and to invoke My blessing on Ted, who had the courage and persistence to establish this interchurch relationship and to see that it flourished. He was, and is, one of My odd servants, one completely dedicated to the church as a means of social justice… one who personally ministered to those rejected, in various ways, by your culture, and even the larger Church. I didn’t actually “raise him up” for such a ministry. He just “volunteered, and I accepted him as one who truly wanted to service in “his way”… a lot like Mine, as Jesus.