to level out the playing field

#154  July 8, 2013, Monday, at home, 10:52pm

Quiet your thoughts and your concerns about other things.

Let all your thought and focus be on Me as together we sit in My Sacred Heart.

Don’t wander off wondering.  Focus on you and Me.

Sit with Me and adore My Creation.

Look into the hallowed halls and into the dirty alleyways.

My Love is the same in each place though in human terms these places are very far apart – in prestige, ownership, education, money, power.

Yet strip all of this away and each person is searching for love, each person has a profound purpose ordained by Me, each person was created by My Father’s love --  to love. 

Strip away all the money and glamour and power and you have very simple human beings.

It just struck you “There but for the grace of God go I.”

Did you mean that statement to apply to those living in squalor conditions.  Or did you mean that about those who are well –known, wealthy and powerful?

Think hard about this.  It is not a trick question, but check yourself carefully when you say that phrase.

It is usually said, applied to negative circumstances, however will you be willing to apply that phrase to good-looking circumstances.

Regarding the people with money would you say that.  Regarding people with fame would you say that?

Regarding a tragedy yes it is a common phrase, yet why not regarding someone overjoyed, who has accomplished a lot.

Say it regarding the good things that happen to others.

“There but for the grace of God go I.”

It is easy to apply it to the down and out situation because that implies suffering, non-accomplishment, hopelessness.

Yet do you not think that the well-to-do person can feel suffering, non-accomplishment, hopelessness?

So why does their lifestyle look better to us than the paupers?

Where or What are our values?

What do we hold dear for life, or what do we feel we really want to avoid in life?

Tread softly and carefully here.  These are questions meant to help you discern how My Graces bless you.

My Grace is meant to level out the playing field so that you don’t wish to escape one circumstance and ache to acquire another.

My Grace is to strengthen you to see the person no matter the circumstances and  to praise God for their life.  Not to say thanks for not letting Me be there or gee I wouldn’t mind being there.

“There …. go I.”

The ‘there’ in this phrase refers to the places I go when I do not love.

“There but for the grace of God go I”, is a statement of grateful thanks to God – the creator of all for having brought to your attention that if it weren’t for His Love and His Command to love Him and love others I would be in one sorry mess.

So whether I am rich or poor if I lack the gift of love – received and given --  I NEED His Graces to save me from this lonely state.

Know that the poverty of love far outweighs the poverty of the body.

Know that the richness of love far outshines any worldly riches.

Thus when you say again, soon, or sometime in the future “There but for the grace of God go I”, be reminded that it is all about not the worldly circumstances but the soul’s need.  The need to know you are loved and the need to be loved.

So profusely thank the Lord “but for His Grace” you would be poorer than poor and rich in nothing, if you did not know His love for you and encourage you to pass it on.

Ache for nothing more than to be showered by His Love Grace --  no matter the circumstances, ache for His Love will enrich any soul that seeks it.

Now rest your concerns with Me.  I am in charge because I love you.

Night, God Bless, pray in thanks to the souls in purgatory.