#seeking — Public Fediverse posts

27 countries seeking to ensure access to crisis funds: WB

WASHINGTON: Twenty-seven countries have moved since the Iran war started to put in place crisis instruments that could…
#Economy #access #centralbank #CentralBanks #CentralBanksoftheEuropeanSystem #countries #crisisfunds #DeutscheBundesbank #ECB #ESCB #Europe #European #EuropeanCentralBank #EuropeanCentralBanks #kuwaitnews #kuwaittimes #seeking #THEBANKOFENGLAND #TheBankofFrance #TheBankofItaly #WB
https://www.europesays.com/3014642/

https://www.europesays.com/people/73268/ Netanyahu Seeking to Drag Region into New War, Iran Warns #Abbas #across #Araqchi #BenjaminNetanyahu #conflict #Drag #foreign #fresh #ignite #into #Iran #Iranian #is #Islam #Israeli #Minister #Netanyahu #new #regime #region #Seeking #that #the #Times #to #war #warned #warns

https://www.europesays.com/iran/111492/ No Trust, No Deal: Why Tehran Rejects US Overtures? #a #and #breakthrough #by #changes #course #deal #Double #fundamentally #game #has #Iran #is #Islam #Military #negotiations #no #Overtures #playing #Possible #pressure #rejects #repeatedly #said #seeking #States’ #sustaining #Tehran #that #the #Times #Trust #United #Until #US #warned #Washington #while #Why

https://www.fogolf.com/1251973/hastings-housing-golf-plan-near-aerodrome-no-complaint-covenant-in-spotlight/ Hastings housing, golf plan near aerodrome: ‘No-complaint covenant’ in spotlight #aerodrome #become #consent #controversial #Covenant #Focus #Golf #GolfCourses #Hastings #Housing #in #Near #nocomplaint #Plan #Seeking #Spotlight

https://www.fogolf.com/1251973/hastings-housing-golf-plan-near-aerodrome-no-complaint-covenant-in-spotlight/ Hastings housing, golf plan near aerodrome: ‘No-complaint covenant’ in spotlight #aerodrome #become #consent #controversial #Covenant #Focus #Golf #GolfCourses #Hastings #Housing #in #Near #nocomplaint #Plan #Seeking #Spotlight

https://www.fogolf.com/1251973/hastings-housing-golf-plan-near-aerodrome-no-complaint-covenant-in-spotlight/ Hastings housing, golf plan near aerodrome: ‘No-complaint covenant’ in spotlight #aerodrome #become #consent #controversial #Covenant #Focus #Golf #GolfCourses #Hastings #Housing #in #Near #nocomplaint #Plan #Seeking #Spotlight

https://www.fogolf.com/1251973/hastings-housing-golf-plan-near-aerodrome-no-complaint-covenant-in-spotlight/ Hastings housing, golf plan near aerodrome: ‘No-complaint covenant’ in spotlight #aerodrome #become #consent #controversial #Covenant #Focus #Golf #GolfCourses #Hastings #Housing #in #Near #nocomplaint #Plan #Seeking #Spotlight

That thing when young me laughed at people who turn 50 who scramble for a sense of #meaning, a #belief system, and/or religion… & now I start laughing at myself because I’m soaking in the #seeking.

I hope this is a blessing for my 50s as a powerful & inquisitive #witch.

That thing when young me laughed at people who turn 50 who scramble for a sense of #meaning, a #belief system, and/or religion… & now I start laughing at myself because I’m soaking in the #seeking.

I hope this is a blessing for my 50s as a powerful & inquisitive #witch.

That thing when young me laughed at people who turn 50 who scramble for a sense of #meaning, a #belief system, and/or religion… & now I start laughing at myself because I’m soaking in the #seeking.

I hope this is a blessing for my 50s as a powerful & inquisitive #witch.

Who and who doesn't #believe that the white house dinner on 04/25/26 was #staged/#fake. You have a narcissist #president #seeking any #attention. The guy was able to have so many #weapons past #security. You claim to be woke but you are still #asleep.

Who and who doesn't #believe that the white house dinner on 04/25/26 was #staged/#fake. You have a narcissist #president #seeking any #attention. The guy was able to have so many #weapons past #security. You claim to be woke but you are still #asleep.

Who and who doesn't #believe that the white house dinner on 04/25/26 was #staged/#fake. You have a narcissist #president #seeking any #attention. The guy was able to have so many #weapons past #security. You claim to be woke but you are still #asleep.

Who and who doesn't #believe that the white house dinner on 04/25/26 was #staged/#fake. You have a narcissist #president #seeking any #attention. The guy was able to have so many #weapons past #security. You claim to be woke but you are still #asleep.

Who and who doesn't #believe that the white house dinner on 04/25/26 was #staged/#fake. You have a narcissist #president #seeking any #attention. The guy was able to have so many #weapons past #security. You claim to be woke but you are still #asleep.

The Power of Relationships in Shaping Identity

We Do Not Move Through Life Alone

I often return to the same idea when I cannot sleep.

On the surface, life appears singular. One body, one name, one mind moving through time. It can feel as though we travel through existence as isolated entities, responsible only for our own thoughts and choices. Yet when the world quiets—when the distractions fall away and the night opens space for reflection—that illusion begins to soften.

Who I am today is not the result of a solitary path, but a reflection of every experience I have encountered along the way. Every interaction, every shared moment—no matter how brief or seemingly insignificant—has shaped something within me. Some of these moments announced themselves loudly. Others flow quietly, unnoticed at the time, only revealing their influence later. Still, each one left an imprint.

We are not separate beings moving past one another untouched. We are vibrations, interconnected in a complex, ever-shifting dance of energy. Each encounter subtly alters that rhythm. A conversation can change the way we see ourselves. A look can linger longer than words. A moment of grace can soften a place inside us that we didn’t realize had hardened. Even moments of tension or misunderstanding carry information, reshaping the inner landscape in ways we may only recognize much later.

Life unfolds, and we unfold with it.

There is a natural ebb and flow to existence—of emotions, of resilience, of learning, of becoming. We are constantly shifting in small, often imperceptible ways to accommodate this unfolding. Some days, the shifts are gentle. Other days, they are disruptive, demanding attention. But they are always happening. We are never static.

When we allow this process—when we move with life rather than against it—there is a sense of alignment. Not perfection, not ease in every moment, but a kind of coherence. The inner and outer worlds speak to one another in a shared language. We respond rather than resist. We listen rather than brace.

When we fight the natural movement of existence, however, we encounter friction.

Resistance To Flow

That resistance creates a different vibration. It tightens the body. It clouds perception. It turns experience into something to endure rather than something to integrate. This friction is not a failure; it is information. It signals that something is being held too rigidly, that we are attempting to remain unchanged in a reality that is defined by change.

Our inner landscape reflects this tension. Just as environments respond to pressure—eroding, cracking, reshaping—so do we. The emotional terrain shifts. Old beliefs are challenged. Patterns either deepen or dissolve. Nothing remains untouched.

This is not a call to passive acceptance or disengagement. Rather, it is an invitation to participation. To recognize that we are co-creators in this process, shaped by what we meet and shaping in return. Every relationship, every experience, every shared moment contributes to who we are becoming.

In this way, identity is not fixed. It is relational.

Deepening of Self

We are composed not only of our own thoughts and histories, but of the echoes of others—their words, their presence, their absence. Our inner worlds are populated landscapes, layered with meaning gathered over time. This does not diminish individuality; it deepens it. It reminds us that depth comes from contact, not isolation.

Perhaps this is why these thoughts surface at night. When we are no longer performing our separateness, the truth of interconnection becomes harder to ignore. The mind, finally unoccupied, begins to integrate what the day delivered. Sleep resists not because something is wrong, but because something is still settling.

There is comfort in this understanding.

It tells us that we are not broken for being affected. That sensitivity is not weakness. The way we carry others within us is evidence that we have lived fully, openly, and in relationship with the world. It reminds us that meaning is not manufactured alone, but emerges in the spaces between.

We are shaped by life as it happens—and we, in turn, shape the life unfolding around us. This shared movement, this mutual influence, is not a distraction from who we are. It is who we are.

.

In stillness I sit
awareness blossoms
flow, naturalness, suchness.
In stillness I am
emptiness and everything
sat-chit-ananda.

~K.M. Simonds

The Power of Relationships in Shaping Identity

We Do Not Move Through Life Alone

I often return to the same idea when I cannot sleep.

On the surface, life appears singular. One body, one name, one mind moving through time. It can feel as though we travel through existence as isolated entities, responsible only for our own thoughts and choices. Yet when the world quiets—when the distractions fall away and the night opens space for reflection—that illusion begins to soften.

Who I am today is not the result of a solitary path, but a reflection of every experience I have encountered along the way. Every interaction, every shared moment—no matter how brief or seemingly insignificant—has shaped something within me. Some of these moments announced themselves loudly. Others flow quietly, unnoticed at the time, only revealing their influence later. Still, each one left an imprint.

We are not separate beings moving past one another untouched. We are vibrations, interconnected in a complex, ever-shifting dance of energy. Each encounter subtly alters that rhythm. A conversation can change the way we see ourselves. A look can linger longer than words. A moment of grace can soften a place inside us that we didn’t realize had hardened. Even moments of tension or misunderstanding carry information, reshaping the inner landscape in ways we may only recognize much later.

Life unfolds, and we unfold with it.

There is a natural ebb and flow to existence—of emotions, of resilience, of learning, of becoming. We are constantly shifting in small, often imperceptible ways to accommodate this unfolding. Some days, the shifts are gentle. Other days, they are disruptive, demanding attention. But they are always happening. We are never static.

When we allow this process—when we move with life rather than against it—there is a sense of alignment. Not perfection, not ease in every moment, but a kind of coherence. The inner and outer worlds speak to one another in a shared language. We respond rather than resist. We listen rather than brace.

When we fight the natural movement of existence, however, we encounter friction.

Resistance To Flow

That resistance creates a different vibration. It tightens the body. It clouds perception. It turns experience into something to endure rather than something to integrate. This friction is not a failure; it is information. It signals that something is being held too rigidly, that we are attempting to remain unchanged in a reality that is defined by change.

Our inner landscape reflects this tension. Just as environments respond to pressure—eroding, cracking, reshaping—so do we. The emotional terrain shifts. Old beliefs are challenged. Patterns either deepen or dissolve. Nothing remains untouched.

This is not a call to passive acceptance or disengagement. Rather, it is an invitation to participation. To recognize that we are co-creators in this process, shaped by what we meet and shaping in return. Every relationship, every experience, every shared moment contributes to who we are becoming.

In this way, identity is not fixed. It is relational.

Deepening of Self

We are composed not only of our own thoughts and histories, but of the echoes of others—their words, their presence, their absence. Our inner worlds are populated landscapes, layered with meaning gathered over time. This does not diminish individuality; it deepens it. It reminds us that depth comes from contact, not isolation.

Perhaps this is why these thoughts surface at night. When we are no longer performing our separateness, the truth of interconnection becomes harder to ignore. The mind, finally unoccupied, begins to integrate what the day delivered. Sleep resists not because something is wrong, but because something is still settling.

There is comfort in this understanding.

It tells us that we are not broken for being affected. That sensitivity is not weakness. The way we carry others within us is evidence that we have lived fully, openly, and in relationship with the world. It reminds us that meaning is not manufactured alone, but emerges in the spaces between.

We are shaped by life as it happens—and we, in turn, shape the life unfolding around us. This shared movement, this mutual influence, is not a distraction from who we are. It is who we are.

.

In stillness I sit
awareness blossoms
flow, naturalness, suchness.
In stillness I am
emptiness and everything
sat-chit-ananda.

~K.M. Simonds

Shoppers searching for something - then again we all came looking

#photography #photo #Urban #Seeking #Singapore #Market #StreetPhotography #street

Shoppers searching for something - then again we all came looking

#photography #photo #Urban #Seeking #Singapore #Market #StreetPhotography #street

Shoppers searching for something - then again we all came looking

#photography #photo #Urban #Seeking #Singapore #Market #StreetPhotography #street

Shoppers searching for something - then again we all came looking

#photography #photo #Urban #Seeking #Singapore #Market #StreetPhotography #street

Shoppers searching for something - then again we all came looking

#photography #photo #Urban #Seeking #Singapore #Market #StreetPhotography #street

https://www.alojapan.com/1462707/japans-cabinet-submits-immigration-bill-seeking-well-ordered-coexistence/ Japan’s cabinet submits immigration bill seeking ‘well-ordered coexistence’ #'wellOrdered #Bill #cabinet #coexistence' #immigration #JapanTourism #Japans #seeking #submits #tourism Japan immigration Amendments include pre-arrival screening and increased residency renewal fees Tourists arrive at Kansai International Airport in Osaka on Feb. 16. (Photo by Konosuke Urata) TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

https://www.alojapan.com/1462707/japans-cabinet-submits-immigration-bill-seeking-well-ordered-coexistence/ Japan’s cabinet submits immigration bill seeking ‘well-ordered coexistence’ #'wellOrdered #Bill #cabinet #coexistence' #immigration #JapanTourism #Japans #seeking #submits #tourism Japan immigration Amendments include pre-arrival screening and increased residency renewal fees Tourists arrive at Kansai International Airport in Osaka on Feb. 16. (Photo by Konosuke Urata) TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

https://www.alojapan.com/1461351/nz-led-small-group-food-tours-take-travellers-to-india-japan-china-and-more/ NZ-led small group food tours take travellers to India, Japan, China and more #and #Authenticity #China #deliver #five #food #group #India #Japan #JapanTrips #joanne #karcz #more #nzled #results #seeking #small #take #tell #to #tours #Travellers #trips #women; #Zealand “We’re so independent in our travel style,” says Sarah Meikle, a Wellingtonian who spends half of the year in India and founded All India Permit Tours. All India Permit Tours f

https://www.alojapan.com/1461351/nz-led-small-group-food-tours-take-travellers-to-india-japan-china-and-more/ NZ-led small group food tours take travellers to India, Japan, China and more #and #Authenticity #China #deliver #five #food #group #India #Japan #JapanTrips #joanne #karcz #more #nzled #results #seeking #small #take #tell #to #tours #Travellers #trips #women; #Zealand “We’re so independent in our travel style,” says Sarah Meikle, a Wellingtonian who spends half of the year in India and founded All India Permit Tours. All India Permit Tours f

Paris Police seeking woman accused of assault with a baseball bat

PARIS, Texas (KXII) – Police in Paris are on the lookout for a woman accused of assaulting another…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #accused #assault #baseballbat #brokenbones #Crime #france #paris #police #seeking #Texas #woman
https://www.europesays.com/2827022/

Boston police seeking suspect in armed robbery

https://misryoum.com/us/today/boston-police-seeking-suspect-in-armed-robbery/

Crime The suspect is alleged to have robbed multiple victims at gunpoint in Dorchester on the afternoon of Jan. 22. Police are seeking this person, who was allegedly involved in a Jan. 22 armed robbery. Boston Police Department Boston...

#Boston #police #seeking #suspect #armed #robbery #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

Cut day at Cognizant Classic draws fans seeking best spots to watch the action

https://misryoum.com/us/trending/cut-day-at-cognizant-classic-draws-fans-seeking/

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (CBS12) — With pros battling to make the weekend at the Cognizant Classic, fans at the tournament in the Palm Beach Gardens are also making their own moves — scouting out the best places along the...

#Cut #day #Cognizant #Classic #draws #fans #seeking #best #spots #watch #the #action #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

Federal Reserve seeking to quash subpoenas in DOJ investigation, source says

https://misryoum.com/us/politics/federal-reserve-seeking-to-quash-subpoenas-in-doj/

The Federal Reserve has been mounting a closed-door effort to block the Justice Department's subpoenas for chairman Jerome Powell, US News Hub News has learned.In January, Powell revealed that the Federal Reserve had received grand jury subpoenas from the...

#Federal #Reserve #seeking #quash #subpoenas #DOJ #investigation #source #says #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

More about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/823…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #censorship #confirmationbias #destination #finding #goodandevil #interpretation #looking #meaning #perspective #results #searching #seeking #reading #literature #art

A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

More about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/823…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #censorship #confirmationbias #destination #finding #goodandevil #interpretation #looking #meaning #perspective #results #searching #seeking #reading #literature #art

A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

More about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/823…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #censorship #confirmationbias #destination #finding #goodandevil #interpretation #looking #meaning #perspective #results #searching #seeking #reading #literature #art

A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

More about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/823…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #censorship #confirmationbias #destination #finding #goodandevil #interpretation #looking #meaning #perspective #results #searching #seeking #reading #literature #art

A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

More about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/823…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #censorship #confirmationbias #destination #finding #goodandevil #interpretation #looking #meaning #perspective #results #searching #seeking #reading #literature #art

Explains ? marks in a previous post after the word #Canada. There's no safety in the world for a #transsexual or #somebody #seeking #democracy right now. That's pretty much all of us. Cuz even though 99% of you aren't transsexuals, you do want democracy except for the few that are here to haunt us.

Explains ? marks in a previous post after the word #Canada. There's no safety in the world for a #transsexual or #somebody #seeking #democracy right now. That's pretty much all of us. Cuz even though 99% of you aren't transsexuals, you do want democracy except for the few that are here to haunt us.

Quote of the day, 15 February: St. John of the Cross

The soul at the beginning of this song has grown aware of her obligations and observed that life is short, the path leading to eternal life constricted, the just one scarcely saved, the things of the world vain and deceitful, that all comes to an end and fails like falling water, and that the time is uncertain, the accounting strict, perdition very easy, and salvation very difficult.

She knows on the other hand of her immense indebtedness to God for having created her solely for himself, and that for this she owes him the service of her whole life; and because he redeemed her solely for himself she owes him every response of love.

She knows, too, of the thousand other benefits by which she has been obligated to God from before the time of her birth, and that a good part of her life has vanished, that she must render an account of everything — of the beginning of her life as well as the later part — unto the last penny, when God will search Jerusalem with lighted candles, and that it is already late — and the day far spent — to remedy so much evil and harm.

She feels on the other hand that God is angry and hidden because she desired to forget him so in the midst of creatures. Touched with dread and interior sorrow of heart over so much loss and danger, renouncing all things, leaving aside all business, and not delaying a day or an hour, with desires and sighs pouring from her heart, wounded now with love for God, she begins to call her Beloved and say:

Where have you hidden,
Beloved, and left me moaning?
you fled like the stag
after wounding me;
I went out calling you, but you were gone.

Saint John of the Cross

The Spiritual Canticle: St. 1, no. 1

John of the Cross, St 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, rev. edn, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Saint John of the Cross (detail), Abel de Jesús (21st c. Spanish), digital illustration with Photoshop. Image credit: © Abel de Jesús (All rights reserved, used by permission).

A prayer.

https://randal.us/blog/kingdom-yours/

#prayer #seeking

A prayer.

https://randal.us/blog/kingdom-yours/

#prayer #seeking

New Stars in the Darkness — Silvio José Báez, ocd

Dear brothers and sisters,

Today we celebrate that Jesus is the Messiah and Savior of all humanity. That’s why today’s Gospel presents us with “magi from the East”—wise men who studied the stars, searching for some light to guide their lives. They were seekers of God—models for all of us who want to journey toward him. One day, when they saw a star, they sensed that something new had happened. They realized that this star announced “the birth of the king of the Jews” (cf. Mt 2:2). Faced with this sign, they didn’t remain still; they set out on a long and risky journey.

The magi teach us that life is a constant search. Only by seeking do we find meaning in existence, and only then are we able to change the course of history. Life isn’t an immense museum meant to be observed, nor is history an old book that only needs to be reprinted again and again. Life is an ongoing interior pilgrimage that calls for creativity and hope. We can’t resign ourselves to letting everything remain as it always has been.

The magi began their journey without knowing the exact route in advance. In life, uncertainty often discourages us, but we can’t wait to understand everything before moving forward. When an ideal is burning in our hearts, we don’t need all the details. Small signs are enough to show the way. The magi journeyed through the night guided only by a faint star; the dark sky became for them a kind of great map. In the same way, God lights up our nights with his light—sometimes discreet, but always trustworthy and consoling. With God’s light, there’s no darkness that can truly disorient or frighten us.

The magi’s journey was full of mistakes. They lost sight of the star, went to Jerusalem instead of Bethlehem, asked a child-killer about a child, and looked in a palace instead of a manger. And yet, despite so many errors, they didn’t stop; they kept going. People and societies make mistakes.

Making mistakes isn’t the tragedy; the tragedy is refusing to recognize them and remaining fallen. Our falls can teach us; life involves course corrections.

Our history as a people has known dark times and painful errors, but it’s always possible to begin again. The Lord is always kindling new stars to invite us to move forward. Let’s lift up our hearts to God with trust and humility.

The magi traveled in a caravan. They didn’t try to go faster than their strength allowed, they weren’t distracted by secondary things, and they didn’t let weariness defeat them. As a society, let’s learn to walk without obsessive haste. Great social changes are slow and require historical patience. Let’s not give up or diminish the intensity of the struggle. Let’s begin, even now, to live as the society we long for: freeing our hearts from petty ambitions, overcoming indifference, opportunism, and the messianic cult of leaders, and trusting in God who guides and sustains us.

The magi’s journey to Bethlehem wasn’t an individualistic one. Tradition speaks of “three” magi; the Gospel says “some.” They were a small group walking together. Each one didn’t go off on his own. The human journey is made with others—or else it drifts into selfishness, discouragement, or despair. The magi looked at the star, but they also looked at those journeying beside them. They teach us the value of solidarity, the need to slow our pace so no one is left behind, and the nobility of reaching out to those for whom the road is growing heavier.

When we walk together, God walks with us. Let’s journey as brothers and sisters, avoiding traps and fruitless rivalries. Legitimate differences aren’t the same as political cannibalism. Let’s journey together, looking one another in the eye, dialoguing, offering a hand, and giving the best of ourselves.

When the magi arrived in Jerusalem and asked about the newborn king of the Jews, “King Herod was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him” (cf. Mt 2:3). Tyrants put on a show of bravery and present themselves as arrogant and aggressive, but they live under threat, driven by fear. They turn others—even those in their inner circle—into rivals or enemies to be eliminated. Herod and his court embody the dark world of power where everything is justified, and anything goes: calculation, cynicism, lies, cruelty, and contempt for life. Still, ancient and recent history teach us that all tyrants eventually fall and stand condemned by God and history.

Although Herod tried to deceive them, the magi—reoriented by Scripture—saw the star again and reached the Child in Bethlehem: “They saw the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they worshiped him” (Mt 2:11). They didn’t find a palace or signs of luxury worthy of a prince’s birth, but a child and his mother. They found the true God in that which is little; they recognized true kingship in the absence of power, and the Almighty in the fragility of a newborn.

God reveals himself in the humility of his love. He asks us to welcome him so that we may be transformed by him, who is Love. Finding God in Bethlehem also reminds us of the missionary dimension of life: enlightened by his love, we are called to bring the light and love of Jesus to those who live in darkness and to rekindle hope in those who feel disillusioned or powerless.

In the end, the magi fall down and adore the Child. To adore is to marvel at God’s unfathomable greatness and, at the same time, to savor his close and loving presence that embraces our whole being. To adore God, we must recognize that we are creatures—infinitely small before him, yet infinitely loved by him.

Adoration is wonder. It is love and self-giving. It is placing our very being in God’s hands and remaining in grateful, joyful silence before him, contemplating his mystery from our own littleness. Adoration gives us the strength not to kneel before any idol or power of this world.

Warned in a dream not to return to Herod, the magi “went back by another way” (Mt 2:12). They returned to ordinary life, transformed—enlightened by truth and changed by love. In the same way, when we encounter Jesus, we too begin to journey “by another way.” We keep seeking the Lord tirelessly in simplicity and tenderness, alongside victims and the poor, struggling for freedom and justice, never giving in to despair and never resigning ourselves (cf. Francis, Epiphany Homily, January 6, 2016).

May the example of the magi move us to keep seeking, to persevere, to journey in solidarity, and to adore with humility, trusting that God’s light always leads us toward truth and the fullness of life.

Silvio José Báez, o.c.d.

Auxiliary Bishop of Managua,
Homily for the Epiphany of the Lord
4 January 2026

Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Galaxy NGC 6946, nicknamed the Fireworks Galaxy. Image credit: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center / Flickr (Some rights reserved).

#BishopSilvioJoséBáez #darkness #Epiphany #journey #light #seeking

1 in 8 young adults seeking mental health advice from AI chatbots: Study | Study published in JAMA Network Open | Inshorts – Inshorts

1 in 8 young adults seeking mental health advice from AI chatbots: Study |…
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Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran Spearheads Confrontation with Dominance-Seeking System

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Bombay HC asks Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra to deposit Rs 60 crores for travel, and LOC relief : Bollywood News

The Bombay High Court has directed actor Shilpa Shetty and her husband, businessman Raj Kundra, to deposit Rs…
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Bombay HC asks Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra to deposit Rs 60 crores for travel, and LOC relief : Bollywood News

The Bombay High Court has directed actor Shilpa Shetty and her husband, businessman Raj Kundra, to deposit Rs…
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