Blessed Night, Loves 😊

“I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For All God’s Children… And All God’s Creation. It Is A Fact That The Collective Consciousness Of Creation Is Evolving And Expanding… Even As The Darkness, Chaos, And Discord Of Our Surroundings…Aims To Distract Us From Saturating The Atmosphere… With Love, Light, And Harmony! But As The World Appears Disorderly And Falling Beneath Us… And The Darkness Is Brought To The Surface… Let Us Give Thanks And Praises That The Collective Consciousness Within Humanity Is Awakening… And Rising To The True Purpose Of Our Existence; Every Individual… Living Life As The Loving And Authentic Expression Of Spirit – That The Living God Intended! And In The Acknowledgment Of Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence” And Its Divine Guidance… Rising To That Occasion Becomes Effortless; As The Meaningless Discord And Those Phantom Distractions Fall To The Wayside… And Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence” – The Living God Within Us – Leads Us Continually In All Love, Wisdom… And Power! Amen…   

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…   

And Y’all Be Love…    

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas:

“The Writing of the Holy Apostle Thomas concerning the conversation of the Lord in his childhood. I, Thomas the Israelite, have thought it needful to make known unto all the brethren that are of the Gentiles the mighty works of childhood which our Lord Jesus Christ wrought when he was conversant in the body, and came unto the city of Nazareth in the fifth year of his age.

On a certain day when there had fallen a shower of rain, he went forth of the house where his mother was, and played upon the ground where the waters were running and he made pools, and the waters flowed down, and the pools were filled with water. Then saith he: “I will that ye, become clean and wholesome waters.” And straightway they did so. But a certain son of Annas the scribe passed by, bearing a branch of willow, and he overthrew the pools with the branch, and the waters were poured out. And Jesus turned about and said unto him: “O ungodly and disobedient one, what hurt have the pools done thee that thou hast emptied them? Thou shalt not finish thy course, and thou shalt be withered up even as the branch which thou hast in hand.” And he went on, and after a little while, he fell and gave up the ghost. And when the young children that played with him saw it, they marveled and departed and told the father of him that was dead. And he ran and found the child dead and went and accused Joseph.

Now, Jesus made of clay twelve sparrows, and it was the Sabbath day. And a child ran and told Joseph, saying: “Behold, thy child playeth about the brook, and hath made sparrows of the clay, which is not lawful.” And he, when he heard it, went and said to the child: “Wherefore doest thou so and profaneth the Sabbath?” But Jesus answered him not but looked upon the sparrows and said: “Go ye, take your flight, and remember me in your life.” And at the word, they took flight and went up into the air. And when Joseph saw it, he was astonished.

And after certain days, as Jesus passed through the midst of the city, a certain child cast a stone at him and smote his shoulder. And Jesus said unto him: “Thou shalt not finish thy course.” And straightway he also fell down and died. And they that were there were amazed, saying: “From whence is this child, that every word which he speaketh, becometh a perfect work.” But they also departed and accused Joseph, saying: “Thou wilt not be able to dwell with us in this city; but if thou wilt teach thy child to bless and not to curse, for verily he slayeth our children; and everything that he saith becometh a perfect work.”

And as Joseph sat upon his seat, the child stood before him; and he took hold upon his ear and pinched it sore. But Jesus looked upon him earnestly and said: “It sufficeth thee.” And on the morrow, he took him by the hand and led him to a certain teacher, Zacchaeus by name, and said unto him: “Take this child, O master, and teach him letters.” And the other said: “Deliver him unto me, my brother, and I will teach him the scripture, and I will persuade him to bless all men and not to curse them.”

And when Jesus heard that, he laughed and said unto them: “Ye speak that ye know, but I have knowledge more than you, for I am before the worlds; and I know when the fathers of your fathers were begotten, and I know how many are the years of your life.” And every one that heard it was amazed. And again, saith Jesus unto them: “Marvel ye because I said unto you that, I know how many are the years of your life? Of a truth, I know when the world was created. Behold, now ye believe me not. When ye shall see my cross then will ye believe that I speak truth.” And they were astonished when they heard all these things.

Now Zacchaeus wrote the alphabet in Hebrew, and saith unto him, “Alpha”. And the young child said, “Alpha”. And again, the master said, “Alpha”, and the young child likewise. Then again, the third time the master said, “Alpha”. Then Jesus looked upon the teacher and said, “Thou that knowest not the Alpha, how canst thou teach another the Beta?” And the child, beginning at the Alpha, said of his own accord the two and twenty letters. And thereafter saith he, “Hear O master, the ordinance of the first letter; and know how many incomings and lines it hath, and marks, common, going apart, and coming together.” And when Zacchaeus heard such designations of the one letter he was amazed and had nothing to answer; and turning about he said unto Joseph: “My brother, this child is of a truth not earthly born; take him away therefore from me.”

And after these things, one day Jesus was playing with other boys upon the top of a house of two stories, and one child was pushed down by another and thrown down to the ground and died. And the boys which were playing with him, when they saw it, fled, and Jesus was left alone standing upon the roof whence the boy was thrown down. And when the parents of the boy that was dead heard of it, they ran weeping, and when they found the boy lying dead upon the earth and Jesus standing alone, they supposed that the boy had been thrown down by him, and they looked upon him and reviled him. But Jesus seeing that, leaped down straightway from the upper story and stood at the head of him that was dead and saith to him: “Zeno, did I cast thee down? Arise and tell”; for so was the boy called. And with the word, the boy rose up and worshipped Jesus and said, “Lord, thou didst not cast me down, but when I was dead, thou didst make me alive.”

And a few days after, one of the neighbours was cleaving wood and did cut off the sole of his foot with the axe; and by loss of blood, was at the point to die. And many people ran together, and Jesus came thither with them. And he took hold on the foot of the young man that was smitten, and healed him forthwith, and saith unto him: “Arise, cleave thy wood.” And he arose and worshipped him, giving thanks, and cleft the wood. Likewise, also, all they that were there marveled, and gave thanks unto him.

Now when he was six years old, Mary his mother sent him to fetch water from the spring; and as he went his pitcher was broken. And he went to the spring and spread out his upper garment and drew water out of the spring and filled it; and took it and brought back the water to his mother. And when she saw it, she was amazed and embraced him and kissed him.

And when he came to the eighth year of his age, Joseph was required by a certain rich man to build him a bed, for he was a carpenter. And he went forth into the field to gather wood, and Jesus also went with him. And he cut two beams of wood and wrought them with the axe and set one beside the other and measured and found it too short; and when he saw that, he was vexed and sought to find another. But Jesus seeing it saith unto him: “Set these two together so that the ends of both be even.” And Joseph, though he was perplexed concerning this, what the child should mean, did that which was commanded.

And he saith again unto him: “Take firm hold of the short beam.” And Joseph took hold on it, marveling. Then Jesus also took hold of the other end and pulled the other end thereof and made it also equal to the other beam, and saith unto Joseph: “Be no more vexed, but do thy work without hindrance.” And he, when he saw it, was exceedingly amazed and said within himself: “Blessed am I for that God hath given me such a son.” And when they departed into the city, Joseph told it to Mary.

All these things have I, Thomas the Israelite, written and recorded for the Gentiles and for our brethren, and likewise many other things which Jesus did, which was born in the land of Judah. Behold, the house of Israel hath seen all these from the first even unto the last, even how great signs and wonders Jesus did among them, which were good exceedingly. And this is he which shall judge the world according to the will of his Father, immortal and invisible, as the holy Scripture declareth and as the prophets have testified of his works among all the peoples of Israel; for he is the Son of God throughout all the World; and unto him belongeth all glory and honour everlastingly, who liveth and reigneth God; world without end. Amen.”

From “The Apocryphal New Testament”, M.R. James (Translation and Notes), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924