The bridge leading from earth to the beyond is very rarely travelled and yet it would be the most natural path to God.... People have been made so aware of their distance from God that they now only seek Him in the distance. They thereby create an even greater distance for themselves by rejecting every possibility of being able to approach Him, i.e. they consider every explanation of this to be implausible. It seems much more credible to them that God leaves His small creatures unnoticed, that they only enliven His creations for a short time and that the eternal deity is too sublime to take care of the children of men in such a way that He enters into contact with them. However, such connections can only come about if there is faith in them. Through His act of salvation Jesus Christ Himself has built the bridge from the eternal kingdom to earth, and anyone who longs for God and for those regions where His spirit's true home is may enter it. Yet how rarely is the bridge entered, it is not recognized as such, and the grace which Jesus acquired for people is ignored and not desired. The beings of the beyond constantly try to guide people towards it; they try to direct their thoughts upwards and thus want to make contact with them in order to draw their attention to the great grace and awaken in them the desire to speak to God themselves.... For then they have entered the bridge that leads from earth to the beyond.... Every prayer is a conscious connection with God, it is the silent dialogue of a child with its father.... Every thought of the beyond is likewise the stepping onto this bridge, for wherever the human being longs to cross over into spiritual regions, there is an access to that bridge which connects the beyond with the earth through divine will. And it is by no means presumptuous to want to take the path to the father directly. He will come to meet His child who has taken the path to Him in faithful trust, for He is close to those who desire to be close to Him and He is distant to those who believe themselves to be far away from Him. Faith establishes the connection, and where there is no faith, where the possibility of a connection is doubted, there the human being erects barriers for himself, for him this connection is not possible either. Yet what a blessing it is for humanity when God Himself obviously descends to earth and clearly marks the bridge so that the human being can find faith more easily if only he has the good will to do so.... Time and again He gives evidence of His care for His living creations. He wants to dispel their erroneous opinion that He is unattainable for people.... He courts their love because He wants to make them happy with His love.... And thus He makes Himself known to them in an obvious way, and He admonishes them to take the same path, to use the bridge which leads to Him, which He, in His immense love, kindness and mercy, has built from the kingdom of the eternal to earth in order to shorten their long pilgrimage on earth, for their sojourn in spiritual realms will, as it were, transport them away from earthly life....

Amen

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