Let your heart hear

#35     Sept 20, 2012   St. Theresa’s chapel,  9:50am   

Welcome.  Sit quietly with Me and listen to the prayers others are saying.  Listen with your heart, ignore your ears.  Do you hear their supplications to Me?  This is not a trick question.  Do you hear their prayers – their very human presence before Me contains many prayers.  I acknowledge each one, I kiss each one, their petitions are dear to My ears. I am consoled by each person’s presence.  If only they knew the great consolation they bring Me.  Tell them, tell them that their presence consoles My heart.  I want them to know that this is a simple gift they can give to Me.

O to have more consoling My heart.  Beg Me to grace others to come forward to console My heart.

Do you hear their prayers?  (Lord, I am not sure how to answer because I am so used to  using my ears instead of my heart.)

So, what a great lesson for you, for all, to listen with your heart.  What a blessing because it takes you beyond your human senses to the other senses, spiritual senses I have endowed each person with .

It means being still.  Notice when you hear with your ears, you can be talking yourself and have all other noises around and still you can hear other noises. Not always distinguishable but noises all the same.

When you are still and sit with your heart listening you hear the hearts of others – which you can’t hear normally at all. 

So listen with your heart to their heart.   Right now stop writing and listen and tell Me what you hear.

(I hear aching Lord)  Yes, hearts aching for answers, hearts aching to know Me more fully, hearts aching for direction, hearts aching, just aching and even they do not know what for.

Listen again and tell Me what you hear.

(I hear rejoicing Lord.)  Yes, rejoicing hearts even in the midst of aching.  Rejoicing that I am present, rejoicing for a loved one, rejoicing that they are able to be here with Me.

See, start to listen with your heart.  It will come to you what the prayers are that are coming from their hearts.  You do not have to know the details – I will explain them if you feel it necessary. 

Free your heart to hear.  Let your heart hear.

In such a way you come into further communion with Me.  It is not My desire that you stay ‘out there’ making summations, but enter My heart with yours so together we hear the hearts of others.

We become more sensitive, more accepting, more less controlling, more free to pray from our own heart and move deeper into Mine.

Listen again.  What do you hear with your heart?

(People from all over the world extolling You, singing Your praises and faithfulness.)

You see you can hear with your heart far beyond the confines of this chapel.  You are part of My creation and thus connected by Me, through Me to ALL.

(I hear great moans, Lord.)

Yes, these come from those in purgatory – almost like a hymn to Me on your behalf.  They wish to suffer to set you free.  What sacrifice.  Thank them daily for offering their sufferings for your benefit.

I  know you had never thought of it quite like this. You think to pray for them to release them from suffering, yet we never think to thank them for suffering to free us, to free you.

Sure we have asked them to pray for us as we do for them, but this thanking takes it to another level.  To thank them for their suffering puts a new light on the purpose of their suffering.  They don’t do this because they are not perfect, they do this out of love for mankind.  They want no one lost.

So thank them, thank them, thank them for this delicious sacrifice.  Their sacrifice nourishes our soul, delights and lifts our soul, creates a desire to serve thusly. 

Make haste to your knees and thank the souls in purgatory who are willingly working on your behalf in obedience to My will.  When you praise and thank them, they reflect these prayers to Me and My heart intensifies My love in your heart.

Go to your knees!

So your prayers of gratitude to them as they serve My will are far more outreaching than just your prayers for those in purgatory.  The grateful prayers acknowledge the divine purpose they are fulfilling through their dedicated suffering.