Focus on My Love

#7     June 10/12  -- before the Blessed Sacrament at St. Theresa’s – Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ.     

“It is not your sins that should weigh you down but My suffering that should lift you up, encourage you, strengthen you.  Eliminate all thoughts of your undeservedness and inequality but rather frame your very thoughts again on Me and My sufferings and not on you, you, you. 

To grasp the fact that love does not flow from your sins but from My sufferings. I call you aside to realize that loving Me means to stop and know My sufferings – not the details so much as the act of suffering itself.  It does not depend on your interpretation of My sufferings but on the fact that you see that love can only blossom thru suffering.  How else could I show you how much I have loved you?

Don’t hesitate to stop and ponder My love.   Don’t hesitate to realize that love and suffering go hand in hand.  But it has to be selfless love that endures -- selfless suffering.  It does not depend on your sins, it depends on My love, My overflowing love.  I don’t love you because you are sinners.  I love you even though you are sinners.  My love finds no barriers.  No matter even if you turn totally away from Me, I still love you like I would the greatest saint.  Where My love lives, so lives My suffering.  If I did not suffer I could not love unconditionally.

Beckon others to Me, to My love.  Let them know that it is not their sin that disturbs Me, but that I love beyond sin, beyond their poor decisions, beyond what they feel are unboundless sins.

How could I do otherwise? Do you not think that My love on the Cross far outweighed My suffering?   It was not how much I suffered for your salvation but how much I loved you and wanted you saved. 

DO NOT FOCUS ON YOUR SINS – that is futile, prideful, unloving.

FOCUS ON MY LOVE not even on My sufferings so much but on My love.  We get so caught up in the negative that we refuse to raise our eyes to receive My love.

I will tell you what the greatest sin is.  It is: not to be willing to receive My love –nothing else is important.  All other ‘sins’ pale in comparison.  And I am not even calling this a sin.  What I am trying to convey is the fact that all else is futile, is for not, is unimportant to your soul – the grace that flows from My love can overcome ALL obstacles.

Sure there are times when you turn from Me and My will and sin.  However the emphasis we have placed on sin has dimmed the light of My love.   Just because you don’t sin, does not mean you know My love.

Any energy and time spent in not doing evil is time wasted!  When you take time to sit in My love, to contemplate My face, to immerse yourself in My will, to embed your being with mine, that is time well spent.

You can do this anytime so it does not mean abandoning your chores, but abandoning yourself in Me while you do your chores. 

This requires a focus that you have, but which you have been misplacing.  You have focused on what you have done, what you need to do, the things you should not have done. 

Whatever takes you to you and not to Me deprives you of time to gather in, live in more of My love for you.

It may not be an easy thing to do because you have spent so much time thinking about living in you for so many years that this is what is familiar to you.  None-the-less, I challenge you to start thinking, acting, being in ME.

It will take time and energy but it is time and energy well spent.  It will not prove fruitless.  On the contrary it will prove itself abundantly – in abundance.

Nothing, I repeat nothing else is more important for your soul and the souls of others than for you to realize that it is not about your sins or your contrition, but all about My Love.  Your contrition is not meant, intended to remove the guilt or grievousness of your sins.  Your real honest contrition is to admit that My Love is the center of your life and what you are striving for.

Now sit and be still.  

All in its proper place

#6     May 30, 2012, Before the Blessed Sacrament at St. Theresa’s 

Incline your ear.  Listen to My voice. It speaks of peace, not disharmony.  It seeks gently.  Come to Me for wisdom.  Seek My counsel – I will answer each of your requests loud and clear so you do not flounder, so you can live more at peace.  But this will not happen if you do not seek My counsel.  All you have to say is:  “Show Me what to do Lord.”

If I know the problem needs an immediate answer, then I will give it.  If I know that you will have to wait, then that is what you can do.  Do not rush My responses.  They all come in their proper time.  There is no need to panic or take concern. If you have asked Me to give you My answer, then you can be peaceful.

You only panic when you think up the idea and do not consult Me.  It is not punishment – absolutely NOT, but it is to show you that when things go through Me, there is always peace.  Fear is banished.  Self-centeredness disappears.

It is My will you are seeking. It is My will that you want running the world – so when My will is given freedom to act in your life, then peace surrounds and engulfs you.

Think of when you feel un-peaceful.  Is it not due to some plan of yours which is not running smoothly? Whenever you feel uneasy, un-peaceful jump back and shove Me to the centre willingly and with joy.  All will settle around you like dew fall.  All in its proper place and time.  There is not a drop of dew (and each drop is different from the other from the day before, etc.) that does not have its role to play.  It is not stubborn, but joyfully obedient to fulfill its purpose in creation. 

So go and be like a drop of dew.  Fulfill your purpose this day with joy and if joy leaves it is only because you have left your center – ME.