Playing Tennis with God — Transcript

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1. 0:00Thinking of God is like playing a tennis
2. 0:02match with a wall. What do I mean? Well,
3. 0:04when we think of God, he abides in our
4. 0:06minds and our hearts as we in his. So,
5. 0:08there's a kind of mutual indwelling. God
6. 0:11in us and us in God's mind. The only
7. 0:13reason I can think of the Holy Trinity
8. 0:16dwelling in my mind is because the Holy
9. 0:18Trinity has thought of me thinking of
10. 0:21the Holy Trinity dwelling in my mind
11. 0:23first. For nothing can exist unless God
12. 0:26first thinks it. And my thought of the
13. 0:28Holy Trinity thinking of me thinking of
14. 0:30the Holy Trinity dwelling in my mind can
15. 0:32only exist since the Holy Trinity
16. 0:35thought of me thinking it first.
17. 0:36Anything that exists, God must have
18. 0:38thought of it first, otherwise it would
19. 0:40not exist. And every time I regress this
20. 0:42thought, he's already there ahead of me.
21. 0:45I'm like a tennis player hitting a ball
22. 0:47toward a wall and the wall is the Most
23. 0:49Holy Trinity. For God always hits the
24. 0:51ball back and reflects my thought and
25. 0:54lets me know that he has thought about
26. 0:56it first. And when I was a monk, I would
27. 0:58lay in bed thinking about this. And God
28. 1:00would let me know that he has thought
29. 1:02about me thinking about it first. And it
30. 1:04was as if I was playing tennis with God,
31. 1:06a match where I could never win. Praise
32. 1:08be Jesus Christ and pray the Rosary.