Grieving is a Grace

#194 Friday, Oct. 18/13, 3:15pm, St Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament

(had asked the Lord to speak His Words to those suffering from miscarriage.)

Pray for the grace to grieve with Me.

Be ever so thankful for the grace of grief.  This is a gift I give to you to help you to focus on what you have lost and enable you to heal from this loss.

Trust in Me.  Trust that these tears you shed are not in vain.  They are not futile.  They spring from a heart that I have so graciously created and blessed with the desire to love, to love unconditionally,.

Do you love your dear baby unconditionally?

Do you say “I love my baby but I want my baby still with me and not lost due to a miscarriage or other ‘in utero’ happening.”

But I ask you to love your child unconditionally.  Whether they are with you in the world or not, must not matter.  This sounds like I am being cruel – far from it.  I am opening up for you a whole new way of living.

We so often put conditions on our love.  I ask you now to tell me you  love your baby.

“I love my baby Lord.”  Add nothing more.

Because for you right now you feel it is a lost love.  This is very False.  You have not lost either the love you have for this baby, or the love baby has for you, or God’s love for you as parents of this baby. 

This is a radical way for us humans to look at it.  Yet I invite you to look at it this way, My Way, through My Eyes of Generous Love.

When you grieve it is because you feel you have lost something you have loved.  So your grief expresses this to Me and I gently accept your grief.

But I want to reassure you, through your grieving tears, that all is not lost.

You child was created by Me,  given to you to love tenderly and dearly as cherishing parents, and has returned to Me, its Maker and Creator.

Do not stumble around feeling that this is a hopeless time.  See Me in it.  See My Love in it.  See My Love for you as a family for eternity.

I assure you that grieving is My Gift to you --- a gift of tears, of sadness, of lost dreams.  I grace you to experience these emotions and give them to Me --- many, many times as you heal from this loss.

Yet I have said before, if you believe in Me, gradually, if you ask Me, I will open your heart to the ever larger mystery --- that of eternity. 

Eternity united with your dear baby. 

Eternity where joy far outshines your bitter tears.

Remain focused on the love you have for your dear baby --- not had, but have.

Death cannot destroy the Life of Love. 

Live in the Love of your child daily.

Live in the Love of your family and friends daily.

Do not let hopelessness knock on your door and be invited in to live with you.

That does not come from Me.  When I knock on the door, I bring with Me graces to help you open your heart to My Knocking.  I then can flood your heart with patience, calmness, hope, rejuvenation, laughter, happiness.

Because YOU KNOW THE TRUTH.

Your baby is alive in the Lord. Rejoice I say Rejoice. What a great safe place for your dear baby in My Mother’s arms.

Sure you can cry when you imagine this scene, but your tears will be ones of gratitude that baby is safe, has a purpose in life, will fulfill that purpose from heaven, and intercedes to the Lord on your behalf.

Though your tears now may express sorrow, as I have created them to do, if you believe in My Words they will not always be tears of sorrow, but tears of gratitude and joy.

I want My People to break open the barriers around death and be willing, even timidly willing, to look on death as I have created it, not as you have imagined it.

Proclaim to your heart that your child is alive in the Lord. 

Proclaim to your heart that My Love knows no bounds.

Proclaim to your heart that I have blessed you as parents of this dear child.

My Love, the Love I give you for your baby cannot be destroyed.

So do not let the evil one haunt you with the grief and shame of the loss.  You know better.

The love you have for this child is more vibrant now than any earthly love because your heart has had to reach beyond the veil of death and still love!

So come to Me all who are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, i.e. My Love, My Wisdom, My Peace, My Understanding.

Do not presume it is impossible.

Just ask Me and I will give it in great abundance.