Y'all ready for a pretty weird thread?

Cause here it comes. This will give you a glimpse of how randomly and bizarrely my mind can work when left unrestrained or controlled....

So just woke up from a dream. Although dream is not quite it exactly. It had a shadow of a nightmare, but really more of a premonition that will happen eventually.

This dream, it had me fighting against something that I already can't remember what it was.

But I was in a spaceship, and in the attack, it was damaged. The ship started rupturing and I knew it was going to fully rupture and my death was imminent

So suddenly it finally ruptures in half. And the portion I'm still in is tumbling, but the air doesn't evolve away for some reason.

But it's turning over and when it turns directly into the sun rays, I'll be killed. Almost like a vampire.

Shortly it turns, and finally I can feel my body freezing and rupturing at the same time.

Then my eyeballs freeze and shatter into shards of glass that I can somehow still see in some fashion

(I told you this was bizarre)

So as the shards of my eyeballs are floating away, I know that death is imminent. But it's not frightening on its own. It's actually peaceful and pain free

(I know. It makes no sense)

But at that moment, I horrific realization hits me...

... in a couple seconds, I'm going to be standing in front of the Divine Judge and called to give an account for my life and my works are

I immediately say (mentally of course, since my tongue is frozen and split) "Jesus, have mercy on me, a poor sinner"...

....I then begin to say the Glory Be and make the Sign of the Cross, but my arm freezes just as I'm bringing it up to my forehead.

Death collapses in on me, and FLASH!!!!

I wake up.

Like I said, this wasn't really a nightmare. I wasn't scared, except for that one moment

It really was a small moment of grace. Because, although probably not in this gruesome manner, death WILL come for us all.

And we WILL be ushered into the heavenly throne room to face the Divine Judge. St Michael the Archangel himself will exhort us there.

You know who else will be there?

Your Guardian Angel and your patron saint and confirmation saints.

If you have faithfully prayed your rosary, Our Lady will also be there with her motherly love and protection.

So this WILL happen. It's guaranteed.

So plan accordingly.

Every single action you take or don't take, every good work and bad work you've done, every loving word you've spoken and every rash or hateful word will be there at your judgment

Form yourselves now. Every single day, you are fashioning and hardening your will into a certain shape, either in conformity to God and His will, or away from Him.

At your death, your will becomes hardened permanently and eternally. It will become like the wills of angels

This permanent fixing of the will, is why demons can never repent and be forgiven. This is why those in hell can never repent and be forgiven

It's also why those in Heaven can never sin or come close to sinning. Their wills are perfected and forged into perfect conformity to God

This is also why you must perform good works and be ready to show the King all the fruit you produced with the talents He granted to you.

To the one who had 10, He gives 10 more. The one who had 5, 5 more. And the one with 3, then3 more

The servant with only 1....

Well that wicked and evil servant, who was given talents but did not produce any more, well the 1 talent he had was taken from him and given to the one who had 10.

How you behave, the works you perform ever day, fashion and harden your will either towards or against God

So did you harden your will towards or away from God today?

What good works did you perform?

What bad works?

Did you read some Scripture?

Did you pray your rosary?

Did you commit acts of love towards your spouse, kids, parents, etc?

Every single day is a blessing you've been granted to choose.

And you will choose whether to obey Him or not each and every single day. If you refuse to choose, that's a choice against Him

So make sure you willfully choose Him. Grow in sanctification every single day

As we saw in the parable at last weekend's Mass, even the laborers hired very late in the day receive the full wage (salvation).

But that doesn't mean everyone receives the same in heaven as we see in the talents parable.

One small note that I heard in the homily, and I'd never considered before but absolutely rings true, is that the laborers at the end of the day were the rejects. They were the weak, the frail, the old and infirm. Those whom everyone else rejected.

Yet the Lord wants them too

So what will these talents look like in Heaven?

Think of yourself as a glass. If you choose God and get to Heaven, for eternity He will pour out His grace into you.

But how you behave and act in your life, determines the size of your soul, determines the size of your glass

For the scoundrel, who through maybe the intercession of a saintly family member is graced with Deathbed conversion, he will have a soul the size of a thimble

For his saintly family member, they will have a soul the size of a swimming pool.

God will fill both of them

So for all eternity, the scoundrel will receive the daily wage, but the grace he receives to overflowing will be a thimble full amount

The saintly family member will receive the daily wage of salvation, and God will eternally fill his swimming pool with His grace

Spend each day fashioning your will to God. Harden your mind, body, soul, spirit and will towards Him.

Speak to your guardian angel to guide you in this every day

Do not leave a single day to waste in making your soul enlarged so you can receive more of His grace

Bet you didn't think that this thread would end like that, did you?

Like I said, my mind runs at warp speed and you never know where it's going to end up when it's left unconstrained

God bless you and keep praying your rosary