Speak Tenderly

#100     Mar. 1, 2013, Friday, 11:30am – Before the Blessed Sacrament, St. Theresa’s

I have called you aside to hear more of My Words and more of My Love.

Drop all false pretenses.  Sit with Me not asking or figuring out or planning.

Just sit with Me.  Tell Me you wish to serve Me with joy.  Tell Me that I am allowed to interrupt your intended prayer time with My Words to your heart. 

Ask Me nothing.  Tell Me nothing.

I know all about your life.  I now want you to know all about your life when I am given permission to work in it.

Do not shake you head thinking that you already know what I want to say because you feel I have been in your life, so what could be different now. 

I wish to speak tenderly to you.  Do you speak tenderly to others as I do to you?  Think about that and pray that you will start to speak more tenderly to others.

Of course we are nice to some people, but we judge that we don’t have to be nice to all.  Right?

Do not hesitate to use a tender voice to all people.

Why did your voice change the other night when a stranger appeared at the door?  Apprehension, fear, puzzlement?   Did you go into your official cool voice?  You probably felt you were being nice, but someone commented that they hadn’t heard that voice from you before.

It is interesting how fear brings out another sound in our voice that doesn’t express tenderness as much as distraught-ness.

I show you this as an example how fear not only affects our vocal chords or how we speak, but it affects us to a deeper core.

Interesting eh?  How this very visible bodily change can indicate to us that not only does the body take on a change expressed by our voice or manners, the soul takes on a new persona  --  one of wariness, judgment, defensiveness.

Can you see how we are going along, just great, and something new pops up and the change happens not only physically but spiritually?

What a gift to be able to analyze this ‘change’ and how it relates to our soul and our relationship with God.

Ask the Lord to show you how these changes do not enhance our relationship with Him.

We do not connect these subtle happenings as windows to our soul’s needs.

You need to know, how the body reacts, so does the soul.  Not in the same expression of sweat, fear, concern, yet reacts to the changes nonetheless.

And most times it is throwing up a defense without asking Me to be part of this life experience.

When you went to the door did you consciously ask Me to go with you?

So just be aware of such things when they occur and initially bring Me on board.

We retreat into ourselves and our own defenses instead of bringing out God’s armour of love  --  unconditional love.

Allow Me to be ALL of your life, not just a part of your life.

Did you see Me in the stranger?   I don’t think you did.

Do I sometimes appear as a stranger in you life?  

Does what I say sometimes appear strange? 

Do My words strain our relationship at which point I become a stranger to you.  “I do not know this man.”

When are you willing to accept Me as a friend, and then turn away from Me affirming that I am now a stranger in your life?

And you thought that this could not be so.  But it is.

It is only when you will not see that this is real and does happen in your life that you tend to live in a false idea of our relationship. 

Not that I ever want to be a stranger to you, but rather that you sometimes perceive Me as a stranger.

Because you must admit ‘not always do I want to know and live by each Word from the Mouth of God.’ 

So in such cases My Words become strangers to you.  You feel some you know and can relate to, but some others you prefer not to know and thus you treat them as strangers to your soul.

You will not let them in because they are ‘too in your face’ and that is not how you want to feel in your faith walk.

You want to feel comfortable and, when you don’t, then My Words become strangers to your soul.

You bend over backwards to make them agreeable to you and your soul.

But I don’t want them to be agreeable to your soul.  I want them to stir your soul to New Life in Me.  If you are content with only the words of Mine that make you feel content, then there is no growth. 

Look at the Words that make you feel uneasy and then bring them to Me and lets look at them and discover why they make you feel uneasy.

Thank goodness for the stranger at the door the other night.

What a lesson he brought with him!

God bless.  I love you.