Your Christian Duty

#135  May 13, 2013, Monday, 9:45am, St Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

Come aside and listen to My Voice.

Be still.  Quiet your heart.  Place all that you have in your heart before Me.  Place your heart before Me.  That way I will see who is in it and care for each part and piece.

See the graces I bring you today by the people I bring into the chapel to join you in adoration.

I love hearing the prayers and concerns of My People.  Nothing is brought to Me that is not purified in My Precious Blood.

Cast this young man on the altar before Me.  He is so bound in his alcoholism that he is drowning in hopelessness.  He is seeking, yet does not know where to find the answer.

So bring Me your soul.  Thank you, now go and fetch his soul – you will know it when you see it.

Bring it to Me.  Sit in this Sacred Space.  Watch My Face light up in delight that you and another come to sit before Me.  Really, you come to sit with Me.  Your presence honors Me, graces Me, bestirs My Heart.

I treasure the faith you have in Me that you will so obediently bring your soul and another’s into My Heavenly Presence.

I cannot express to you the great Wisdom you have acquired by bringing your soul and another’s to Me.

We search and seek. We climb high on rocks, and lift up rocks seeking what we hope to find.

Yet you have found this treasure.  It is simply to bring your soul and another’s into My Presence – your seeking is over.  There is no more final answer to the puzzle than this.

Perhaps you had not realized it before, but it is the answer.

Bring your soul to Me.  Just don’t drop it off and plan to return later to pick it up and take it away with you till next time.

No.  You must bring Me your soul and Stay with Me.  You can do this anywhere, anytime.

Bring Me someone right now.  Ooops, did you bring Me your soul first??  Now bring Me the soul of the other.  Stay.  Sit quietly.  Be as one with Me. 

Now as you continue to write, I know your soul and his soul are still present to Me.

It does not mean that you must stop everything to do this simple act of offering your soul and his/hers to Me.

It means that as you continue your work during the day, in the back of your mind you still reflect on this union of the 3 of us.  You have not left your soul to be cleaned to pick it up later.  You are sort of multi-tasking.

You don’t return to keep checking to see if I have improved your soul or their soul.  You simply reflect that I am at work in you and in them.

You thank Me for being able to multi-task!  As you know, I have many, many I care for, yet not one goes unnoticed or ignored.

So thank Me for caring for you and many others.

Bring Me someone else.  I know you know whom I mean.  Bring Me your soul, bring Me his soul.  Do not discuss anything, just appear before Me in great Joy and Love that you have found what you have been seeking – a place to lay your burdens down.

Do not confuse burdens and crosses.  Because then you will not be able to know how to bring each one to Me.

Burdens are usually what you take on yourself.  “O that person slighted me.”,  “O that person must thing I am stupid.”,  “O that person doesn’t talk to me anymore.”

Whereas Crosses are what I allow you to carry in your life.

The first comes from you feeling hurt, feeling sorry for yourself.

The second are gifts from Me to you, not as a test but as a triumphant treat for your soul.  You can choose to let them burden you or you can raise them on high.

The burden drags you down into you, you, you.  The Cross lifts you up to Me, Me, Me.

Do you see the difference?

I will further explain.  This morning while you were out walking someone stopped you to tell you what someone had said against you and the writing of this book.

Now you could have continued on your way with a raging, angry heart “How dare that person say such and such?  Doesn’t he know it is God who is speaking?”

But you didn’t!  Now this is not meant to acclaim you.  It is meant to show the world that when I tell you to bring Me your burdens you do so instantly.

You know in the past you would have ranted and raved to yourself and others.  But now you don’t.

Do you ALL see what a blessing this turn around in your life is?

My God – you don’t need to run for the blood pressure pill, or hasten to confession for what you thought and said in reacting anger.

You do not have to defend you any longer!!!

What a gift. What a release.

You bring Me your soul and that person’s soul before Me.  You do not ache that I condemn this person’s soul, but rather humbly ask Me to shower that soul with more graces and more love, not to make your situation right, but as a gift to this person this day.

If you are wanting to be My Companion, I will ask you to bring each person’s soul to Me.  First bring yours, then bring theirs.

If you are not willing to do this with great thanks and joy, then how do you propose to call yourself a Christ follower?

For some of you this may seem to be a Cross because it comes from Me – a challenge?, a road block?

But if it comes from Me it is neither.  It is a jubilant invitation to join Me in Heavenly, Divine Love.

Bring Me your soul.  Bring Me another’s.  I have suggested whom to you.

Now let Me pour My Love over both souls in both thanks and gifting.

Watch Me smile as you bring your soul and their soul before Me.  What great Joy you bring into My Heart.

You have realized that you are as lost a sheep as this person.  Let the heavens rejoice at this revelation that has struck your heart.

Now go in peace.  Bring Me your soul anytime and bring Me another’s.  Your Christian ‘duty’ is never to come before Me along.  Always bring another soul with you, so that My Graces and Love abound doubly over both of you.

I love you.  Thank you, thank you , thank you.