Today, Catholics are blessed with This Short Passage from The Book of Wisdom to understand what causes the “Confusion Headaches” that lead many people, families, and nations to be devoured by “vultures”!
Take a deep breath and begin with Wisdom 13:1-9!
First, the confusion of unbelievers is described: “All men were by nature foolish who were in ignorance of God, … and from studying the works did not discern the artisan; But either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circuit of the stars, or the mighty water, or the luminaries of heaven, or the governors of the world, they considered gods.”
Then, we learn how we may help our neighbors cure “Confusion Headaches” that keep many worshiping things in Creation: “Now if out of joy in their beauty they thought them gods, let them know how far more excellent is the Lord than these; … let them from these things realize how much more powerful is He Who made them. For from the greatness and beauty of created things, their original author, by analogy is seen.”
“Wisdom” lets us understand that billions of people have been led to cure “Confusion Headaches” with distractions and drugs since the early days of Babylon! This study gives the cost today!
https://www.novarecoverycenter.com/drug-use/how-much-money-do-americans-spend-on-illegal-drugs/ tells us that each year, those who use drugs to cure “Confusion Headaches” wasted 4 trillion dollars in 2024, more than 10% of America’s National Debt!
All that waste can stop when the “unpardonable” sin of disbelief is cured: “But again, not even these are pardonable. For if they so far succeeded in knowledge that they could speculate about the world, how did they not more quickly find its Lord?”
Psalm 19:2-5 shows where to find God’s cure for “Confusion Headaches”! “The Heavens proclaim the glory of God … day to day and night to night imparts knowledge.”
Luke 21:28 tells us to rise above self-serving vanity that causes every “Confusion Headache” on earth: “Stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.”
Jesus tells of the fate of those who do not cure “Confusion Headaches” by seeking obedience to God in Luke 17:26-37: “In the days of Noah, the flood came and destroyed them all. Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fires and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all.”
God’s Catholic Disciples were smart enough to ask He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies where this “destruction” would happen in every time and place to follow. “Jesus said to them, ‘Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.'”
We see flocks of “vultures gather” in every useless group that preys upon their neighbors.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Human cultures / are devoured by vultures. / Their unholy labor? / Devouring neighbors.”
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