Mariam pondered arranged marriages. She asked the Rabbi, "Is it more sensible to marry a financially comfortable person you do not love, or a financially impoverished person you do? Love does not pay the bills or the mortgage."
Rabbi Jesus answered, "But it makes the struggle to pay them sweeter."
Life may not be easy. But remember: true love always finds a way.
Mariam was pondering the concept of revenge in peoples' lives for past injustices. Immediate and long-term revenge - hot and cold.
Mariam jokingly remarked, "Revenge is best served cold."
Rabbi Jesus gently replied "Actually it's best not served at all. How do you put right the injustice of past destroyal of lives by a new destroyal of lives?"
Mariam was on a fast, praying for someone who had a difficult moral decision to make.
Mariam told the Rabbi, "Last time I prayed and fasted like this for someone who was poised to make a sinful decision, it did not stop this person."
Rabbi Jesus answered, "It did, however, cause mitigation of the consequences so the results were not as serious as they could have been."
Only God knows the power a prayer of intercession may have.
(Oxford Minidictionary: Mitigate v. make less intense or severe)
Mariam repented past failures with tears and remorse.
Rabbi Jesus gently comforted her, "(I forgive.) It is your failures that make you great. Because they made you humble."
All past sins which are repented are washed away by the Saviour.
Do you have heartache? Perhaps you may find comfort in the Prayer Chapel of Repentance
https://churchinterfaith.blogspot.com/2017/03/prayer-chapel-of-repentance.html
Rabbi Jesus answered, "Without animals it would not be Heaven."
When the Son of God came to earth, the first witnesses to this blessed event were His gentle animals.
Be tender to our neighbours on this earth. True humanity is nobility of thought and action.
Don't be cruel to sentient beings, torture animals or kill them.
True love means to fully obey the command, "Thou shalt not kill." [1] (Lest blood stain thy hands and possibly delay thy entry into heaven.)
[1] Exodus 20:13
