Today is a feast day of Teresa of Ávila

15th October 2025 (Gregorian Time)

[The following slowmotion spiritual springboard takes as much time as it takes: think for yourself.]

“From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us!”

[embed]We are all seeking the same infinity pool - do you want one that’s more real?

El Castillo Interior [The Interior Castle], 1577

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (Psalm 40:2; KJV).

[For one truth seeker.

A secret everyone knows.

Opened not sent.

Free from the need to please the congregation.

No ruling regulations if they don’t promote love and fire for Christ, for everyone.

For the outcast, the downcast and the rejected dejected.

‘Article’ 78 through an atheist saved.

(How can this be?)

Not by me not for me.

Ununderstandable to AI and overlords.

Out of darkness.

That’s why I know what it is to go through.

That’s why I know the opposition.

The opposition no longer gets me.

Be in God’s mansion.

Freedom is Yeshua Rescuer.

You are not alone.

You belong to the light.

I obey.

In love.

@you

Get up!]

If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. (2 Corinthians 5:13; NIV).

I.

as water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart[†]

I will also put a new spirit in you to change your way of thinking. I will take out the heart of stone from your body and give you a tender, human heart. (Ezekiel 36:26; ERV).

as water reflects the face, so others reflect your heart back to you[†]

The Interior Castle, 1577

Now I’m returning to you. I’m saying these things in the world’s hearing So my people can experience My joy completed in them…

The Interior Castle, 1577

…I gave them your word; The godless world hated them because of it, Because they didn’t join the world’s ways, Just as I didn’t join the world’s ways. I’m not asking that you take them out of the world But that you guard them from the Evil One…

The Interior Castle, 1577

…They are no more defined by the world Than I am defined by the world. Make them holy—consecrated—with the truth; Your word is consecrating truth. In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world. I’m consecrating myself for their sakes So they’ll be truth-consecrated in their mission.

(John 17:13-19; MSG).

The Interior Castle, 1577

II.

Y’shua says: Whoever acknowledges father and mother, will be namecalled “son-of-a-harlot”

God created humanity in God’s own image, in the divine image God created them, male and female God created them.

(Genesis 1:27; CEB).

ginesthe parebate [be passersby | passing by — be!]

Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her; those who hold her fast will be blessed.

(Proverbs 3:13-18; NIV).

and let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life

{“Where are you going? In wickedness are you bound”}

“Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.”

{“I was bound, though I have not bound”}

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding

Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her and is found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her. One who rises early to seek her will have no difficulty, for she will be found sitting at the gate. To fix one’s thought on her is perfect understanding, and one who is vigilant on her account will soon be free from care, because she goes about seeking those worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in their paths and meets them in every thought.

(Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-16; NRSVUE).

The Interior Castle, 1577

Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”

Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

(Proverbs 4:1-27; ESV).

III.

A prayer linked to another friend with a similar name shared across time:

May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be…

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content knowing you are a child of God…

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.

[embed]I do not want you to ever forget how important is the love between us…

[embed]…If you are going around looking at other people’s faults, you might mistake insignificant things for drastic imperfections…

[embed]…This not only ruins your own serenity but unnecessarily disturbs other people’s peace of mind. Perfection at what price?

“The important thing is not to think much, but to love much, and so to do whatever best awakens us to love.”

I have called you friends

Contemplation:

Are you a co-creator lost in spacetime or a collection of molecules that think they’re you, bound to an imperfect guide? Are we losing time to guides who do not know? To puff-preachers who know love as agreement with them and time as their perception of rhythm?

“…Please restore to me the time lost, giving me Your grace, both now and in the future, that I may appear before You in wedding garments…”

Published on a feast day of St Teresa of Ávila, who prayed for time lost (and indeed received 10 days of time, “lost” between 5th and 15th October)!

Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

[Enjoyed this? Why would you ever buy someone a ko-fi for using that which is God’s, churning Jesus through their machines and then asking you to give them something for it? Give to the poor instead.]

Not AI-generated: God doesn’t do chatfishing.