Purgatory??

#90     Feb. 4, 2013, Monday, at home – (in response to a question someone emailed re purgatory and what Jesus had said previously) 

"Margo, I do not make light of the suffering of those in purgatory.  But I want you to know that in suffering they are doing it lovingly in obedience to My will.  They are not frustrated by this suffering for they know the purpose of it  -- to save souls.  They come to realize that it ALL has an eternal purpose.  They do not shy away from it but do it willingly for love of Me.  

Now I know this sounds strange that I would require suffering -- I do not require suffering, I ask if they will be willing to endure it for the sake of mankind.  

It is the fullers fire.

They know that they cannot live in My presence in their present state.  They also know that this suffering is not unquenchable, that it is not for eternity. Do you not think that I encourage them in the midst of their suffering?  I reach out and touch each one and they willingly accept My caress as encouragement and love.

Do you not suffer when you want to be up among the best athletes?   

You suffer injury, recuperation, disappointment.  If you did not accept suffering to reach this higher goal, then you would not be able to get there.

(The person also asked "How do I visualize purgatory?") Jesus promptly asked me 'why do you want to visualize it?'  Isn't His word enough?

Perhaps you do not like the fact of 'suffering' -- if you want to avoid suffering, then you best not follow Me, because as part of your eternal journey, if you wish to follow Me, suffering is included.

Again our ideas of the suffering in purgatory DO NOT have to mesh with what He has said.

I tell you they do this in loving obedience.  So suffering done in obedience to My will is not the same suffering that you think you need to visualize.

I know My Mother showed you the suffering souls, not to frighten or upset but to reveal the eternal plan of salvation.  

So as I said before, thank them for suffering on your behalf, thank them, thank them, thank them.  

(the person also wrote: – ‘I'm somewhat (to say the least) confused about it.......perhaps I should think about it having different levels or gradations...I don't know.....???’)

Erase your confusion.  That is the devil having you waste precious time with Me, by dwelling on this.  You do not need to know the fullness until it is revealed to you. Meantime thank Me for My patience with My people who feel they need to know it all.  

Now unconfuse your mind.  Stop walking in confusion and trust ME that all is well -- all will be well.  Trust in Me."

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My Words Release You

#89     Jan. 31, 2013, Thurs. 4:45 p.m. – at home

Thank you for coming aside to listen to My Words.

Take your time writing these Precious Words.  They hold all the Wisdom of Creation.  They know My every thought and want to share them with others. 

Don’t rush through My Words.  Realize how precious they are.

Don’t hesitate to stop and contemplate even a small portion and know it is Me speaking directly to you.  What a blessing!  You are not reading something written by another human being.  These Words are Eternal – from My lips to your ears, from My lips to your heart.

Read them out loud knowing that you are speaking My Words – not something you have merely made up, but rather something that vibrates from your larynx – My Words being proclaimed and claimed by you.

How blessed you are.  How precious you are.  I want you to realize how I love to hear you proclaim and claim My Words to your heart.

I delight in how they impact your heart.  Do you feel them banging into your heart – eager to enter—eager to be taken in and housed there?

You can’t read them with your lips and not have them impact your heart.

Remember I Knock --  well this is what these Words of Mine are doing – Knocking on your heart, asking to enter and abide there.

Yes, I have to wait sometimes for you to answer, but My Love is patient.

And, a secret, I know how these Words of Mine have a way of slipping in through the smallest cracks in your heart, ready to flow forth at your bidding.

I am delighted when I see how My Words are impacting your heart and soul.  I delight that your efforts to be closer to Me you are finding in these Words I am dictating. 

Remember, These Words of Mine are meant to joyfully impact your life.

They are not meant to chastise, abuse, catch you up, correct or give you regrets.

They are meant to RELEASE you from all that past garbage which may have gotten in the way of our relationship.

Don’t look to your faults and failings.   Look to Me.

If you dwell on the former, you are not seeking to be with Me or to please Me or to grow in our relationship.

Remember to climb out of you and climb into My Heart.

I do not care what your burden is.  I do not mean that as it sounds.

I care and you know I care about ALL of you.  However, I do not say to bring only your cares to Me. I want you to bring ALL of you to Me.

I care that you cry, I care that you laugh.  I care that you feel angry, I care when you want to forgive.

Do you care that I want ALL of you?

Sit with Me if you wish and list off all of you that you want to surrender to Me.

Will you surrender your memory to Me?

That is a tough question – no, it is a tough question to answer. 

But I give you time to ponder what this means.  It does not mean having no memory.  What it does mean is that you are willing to give your memories to Me. 

Let us sit with them and look at them together.  Let us see My hand in each one.  Let us not chastise a bad memory but look at it thru the eyes of forgiving love.

Are you willing to relinquish your happy memories?  Sure you no doubt want to relinquish to Me all your bad memories, but are you willing to surrender to Me your good ones too?

It is hard to explain but I will try.  I am not trying or asking you not to have memories, but when you sit with them do you just revel in them yourself and reminisce to endeavor to bring you joy?  Or are you willing to just hand them over to Me – thank Me for them and not dwell in them? 

Dwelling in them whether they are good or bad removes you from Me in the Now and Present.

It is a daydreaming world that is no longer active and present yet it takes you away from the present and who I am in your life right now.

Whether it is a good or bad memory, if it removes you from Me it is not a healthy endeavor. 

It is either seeking happiness from something in the past or wanting to relive a hurt just to keep the wound festering and feeding your hurt you.

Neither is real.  Neither brings you closer to salvation.

My Father gave each of you a memory, so you could learn and recall and learn again.

Yet we can abuse our memory and make it a safe place to hide from reality or even a hurtful place to hide from reality.

Your memory should be instructive.  I did such and such and this happened, so next time I will be more careful.  Or I did such and such and people had a good time, so I can offer that delicious meal again.

And we thank God that we have a good memory either to teach us or remind us of good things and to warn us about bad things.

However, it is not meant for you to dwell there.

So anything in your memory that pulls you away from living in the present and keeps you day dreaming or wishing for the past, is taking you away from Me, now.

A relationship cannot, will not survive on such a coming and going of your heart and soul.

We climb back into a good memory sometimes because we felt loved, wanted, admired and those feelings are only feeding the you that really is still searching for the real Me.

How did we get here?   How did we get to discussing memory?

Interesting the paths we wander down.  And yet these are things about you that I know need to be discussed.

Do not rely on your memory to satisfy the joy or even the anger you want to experience now.

Certainly you can see recalling something joyful  to make you feel good now, but they both are not in the present.

So you are satisfied to live in the present through some joyful recall from the past.  And of course you will come to realize quickly that you aren’t living in the present – you are breathing, your heart is beating, but you are not present to you or to Me – the fullness of you, the fullness of Me.

And sometimes, it may be hard to explain we want to go back to some dark time in our past and keep digging it up --- either because of regret, anger, unfulfilled dreams, shame.

So doing this you know you are not living in the NOW.

Because those emotions come from something in the past and are still festering where they didn’t even originate.

That is why you bring your memories to Me and we will sit with them .  Thank Me for the good ones and then hand them over because they, although they are not bad, they keep you and Me apart in the Present.

Ask Me to soothe your bad memories – to look at them from a Lover’s viewpoint.  To take the edge off because Love conquers all.  They may appear appalling to you and others, yet in My Presence they wither under the gaze of Love.

So thank the heavenly Father for giving you a memory; and be willing to surrender to Me, Jesus, all your memories.

What I think is great about these writings Margo, is that ‘things’ seem  to pop out of nowhere, yet are most important topics to be mentioned for you to contemplate.

Each insight gives you a closer idea of how you can grow closer to Me. 

I invite you to turn your good and bad memories to Me.

Ask Me to give the consolations that your good memories bring, but a thousand fold more. 

Ask Me to tenderly care for your bad memories erasing the pain, even if only gradually, that has bound you for years and let you see I understand and accept your pain.  I will take ALL and heal ALL.

Sit with Me.  Not how you sat with Me yesterday or will sit with Me tomorrow, but as you are and I AM right now. 

Together NOW before the Great Creator.

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Allow My Words to permeate the World

#88    Jan. 29, 2013, Tuesday, 10:20 am, at home

I wander, I seek.  I look for souls needing My caress.

Have you seen any lately?  Share My love with them please.  Let them know that I want to be their closest friend.

Do not let them scatter before you tell them this.

Touch their hearts with My Great Good News.  So many think they have heard it, and have not heard the real meaning of Me and what I want to offer.

My Words flow thru the Bible but some take them as texts from of old.  They do not think or translate them to apply to today’s world. 

That is why I continue to dictate.  I want people to know that I was not just THEN instructing them, but am HERE NOW instructing them.   My Words must flow beyond time and space into the crevasses and cracks of each person’s heart.

Do not stop My Words from doing this.  Please remain open as I direct you how to convey these Words of Mine (not yours) to others.

I will speak to your heart and nudge you to send it to whomever I choose.

Be still and don’t ponder to whom you should send these Words.  You know My voice and I will tell you and ask you to be obedient.

My love is needed in so many places.  Yet I know best how to put it out there.  I will instruct you and just ask for your obedience.

Take nothing with you.  What do I mean by this?  Especially in the middle of this information.  What I mean is that you must not strive to go out there on your own with what you think is necessary to spread this message of love.

When you go on your own you pack ‘things’ to take with you because you are in charge.

When I tell you to ‘take nothing with you’ then I am in charge.  I am not trying to limit you, but rather free you so you do not get caught up in the ‘you’ things.  My message is simple, yet so profound, and thus must not be encumbered by your ways, needs, and wants. 

I do not give you this command to limit you.  I give you this command to keep you centered on Me and the mission I have given you, ---  and not on you  -- your appearance, behaviour, etc. etc.

When it is My message you are bringing to people, it is all about My Message.  Take you out of the equation.  Subject your needs and wants to My Will.  Do not interfere with the transportation of My Message, rather be so insignificant that no one will remember the bearer but will rejoice in the Great Good News. 

And you see for you, the bearer, this is the Great Good News.  To be so humble and centered only on Me that you wish to be invisible in doing this task for Me.  You crave, ache and beg to know My will for you and this is all part of it.  Rejoice when you the  bearer are not noticed, yet My Words resound in others’ hearts.

This is a great challenge for all of us to let go and allow Me, the Maker of Eternal Words, to be the one and only contact this person has to know and believe in.

Vanish, Ache to vanish allowing only My Words to permeate the World.

Ache to serve Me in such a sublime way.  Looking for no recompense, no honor, no glory.  It is a task worth endeavoring to achieve if you wish to do My Will.

Be the invisible person who transmits My Words to others.  Disappear.  Do not satisfy any of your pride.

Let it slip quietly into My welcoming embrace.  Seek only Me.  Seek no other comfort or nice words or compliments.

I want your heart as much as I want the heart of each and every person out there.

But I can’t work on your heart when it needs ‘others’ to sustain its beating. When it craves, aches, begs for compliments from others.

You know I speak the Truth, Margo.

I need you to be more than willing not to seek any justification for writing these Words of Mine.

What a great adventure --  to hide away from the world and not to need their ‘food’ to nourish your heart.

Rest in Me, Rest in Me, Rest in Me.

If My Words do not, are not able to enter your heart how do you think other hearts will respond?

So you are not special – you are one of the many in whose heart I wish to dwell and to nourish with these Words of Mine.

Do not think for a moment that you do not need to hear these Words and others do.  How very false and the falseness only comes from the deceiver himself.

He would love you to think that My Words you have already grasped and do not need to heed but that others do. See how he wants to make you the judge?

Do not let his idle words slip into your heart and distract you from these Words of Mine which are meant for ALL – including you.

You are not above hearing and acting on My Words.  If you feel this, then stop dead here and do not continue.

Or point to your heart and ask Me, beg Me to enlighten you and thus free you from thinking that your role in this is to enlighten others.

Sure, I have told you to share My Words, but not for you to feel others need saving and it is up to you, but strictly only in obedience to the fact that I have asked you to.

Don’t trip over your own pride, but know that your heart needs these words as much as every heart out there.  Again you are not special because I have asked you to write these Words, but rather you are special because I Love You.

That’s it.  That’s all.

Do not wander far into your own greatness because you will forget My message of love.

My love will still be there, but will not be able to assert itself until you let go of the greatness and importance of you.

This applies to everyone who reads these Words.

And it is not a chastisement at all but a great invitation that frees you  --  if you want it to!

Aaah – there is the crux of it all – if you want to be free in Me or if you want to be in control of you by you.

Sit with this and ask yourself this question.  Do I want God in charge of all of me or do I want Him in charge of only part of me and I will endeavor to control the rest of me?

Really, you do not need to answer this question.  But take note each day what you surrendered to Me and what you did not surrender to Me. 

Therein lies your answer.

Therein lies your challenge --  if you wish to take up you Cross and follow Me.

Your ‘Cross’ is not about all your hardships, etc.

Your ‘Cross’ is about lovingly sacrificing, surrendering all of you to Me.

It can be a heavy ‘cross’ because we insist on carrying so much baggage – that has nothing to do with love!  Therefore has nothing to do with Me.

So remember your ‘Cross’ is not about pain and how you feel you will offer it to Me.

Your ‘Cross’ is about turning ALL over to Me --  all of you over to Me  -- the good, the bad and the ugly – and allowing Me to take care of it.

So the ‘Cross’ does hurt when we insist on not sharing with Jesus.  We insist on not giving over our pain, our hurts, our grievances to Him. 

But that is not what He wants.  He asks us to surrender ALL – not any control from us applied to this surrendering.

He wants us to know that the burden of the ‘Cross’ is of our own making.

That only love lightens that burden.  So when we surrender we must do so with love, for love, and in love.

We can’t surrender hoping for a cure, or that He will fix such and such.  We surrender because we know we are not in control, that His hand is what is needed in this situation, that we acknowledge that only His Love is needed by us and by others.

We surrender not looking for a miracle – that only satisfies us.

We surrender looking to the One who is Love and honoring this Lover as the only one who can care for this situation in His Time, in His Good Will.

Our ‘Cross’ becomes much, much lighter when we give up our control and hand it all over to the One who died on the Cross of unconditional Love.

Sit, Be still, ponder My Loving Cross.  Let tears of joy stream down your face.  You have heard these Words of Mine so Rejoice in them, Treasure them, exult in them, capture them and hold them close to your heart ready to share with others when I whisper to you their name. 

Your greatest worldly achievement will pale in comparison to achieving a deeper and deeper relationship with Me.

Let your heart joyfully ache to be free to seek only Me and My love. 

Not free from worldly cares and jobs, etc., but free to know, to realize that in the midst of this world, you can seek Me and find Me and dwell in Me.

Alleluia, Praise the Lord the Giver of Life.

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My Love and Care

#87     Jan. 23, 2012  Wed.  730pm at home

Sit quietly and adore Me.

Come into My presence with joy and humility.  Sing praises, Sing praises.

Raise your heart to Mine.  Ache to dwell in My heart with no conditions.

Look to the east and west.  Look as far as your eyes can see.  Do you see Me?  Do you see Creation?  Are we one and the same?  What is the difference?  How do I differ from creation? 

You can see Me in creation, but I am not Creation.

So looking at creation and seeing My hand in it is worthy.

Yet I am separate from Creation.

Just the other day you realized that you can see My love through others who treat you with compassion and respect.

It is a reflection of some of My love, however I revealed to you that My love is totally separate.

Sometimes we forget that I am.  It is My love you seek and can cherish.

My love is separate from the love of others.  I am a Person, the Person who Loves abundantly and unconditionally.

You could be on a desert island and still know love – My love.

So, don’t confuse someone’s love and care for you as the same as Mine.

Certainly, they have been endowed by grace to love and care for people, however, their love is NOT My Love.

You must not mistake their love and care as My love and care.

Separate us.  Separate our love.

As I said before you can be totally alone with no one who loves you at all and yet you are still loved greater than any human or a whole bunch of humans ever could.

You see, we depend on our human sense of ‘being loved’  --  measuring love by our human sense.

But I invite you, I beg you to go much farther.  Go into your very heart and soul – all a part of being human! – and discover the love that you crave from others, a craving they will never be able to satisfy.

When you seek it from others, you are never quite satisfied because they always fall short of your requirement.

They can heap this and that on you, yet forget to buy the one item you requested.

They can dance and twirl around you to please you, yet not play the exact song you hoped to hear.

Rest assured – take My Word for it – it is not their fault and neither is it your fault.

There is no fault here.  There is just broken humanity trying to find perfection where it cannot be found.

Thus you have to look beyond humanity to the Creator, the Lover of humanity and be nourished by His love that never fails.

Certainly, we can feel that God does not love us when things go wrong.  Either big or small things.  However that is a choice we have to make.

Do I believe Jesus loves me no matter what happens to me?

Or do I only think Jesus loves me when things are going A OK?  Otherwise in the rough times He must have stepped outside for a smoke.

I, Jesus, want to love, I do love you separate and above and beyond any other love you have ever experienced.

My love is not a sentimental love but a true forgiving love.

When we love, we usually cut it off when things aren’t pleasant between you and someone else. We don’t speak with love, or think with love, or act with love.

My whole being is meant to love unconditionally.  Have you found another that does this?  I demand nothing from you in order for Me to love you.

I don’t apply limits to My love. Do you?   You have to answer ‘yes’ because you are limited by your very nature and sometimes use that as an excuse not to strive for perfection.

Believe

#86     Jan. 22, 2013, Tuesday, at home

Come aside and sit with Me. Caution your heart to listen carefully to My Words.  Do not try to ramble on on your own.

You have good things to say, however they are not God things.  Yours are limited, Mine are eternal – go beyond space and time and are securely the Truth.

You may think you know things, however what you know about something is so limited by where you are, who you know, what emotions are driving you , etc.

My Words encompass all, see all, hear all and thus see the complete picture of Truth.

Let Me show you some Truths.

I created the Sun.  True, False?  Or was that something you think just appeared.  What do you believe when you say “I believe in God” – can your mind contain all that that encompasses?  It can’t and that’s ok.  However you can still believe without being able to name the depths and heights of God.

The Truth that you can admit is that you don’t know – that is why you believe.

Do not let your faith be shaken by charlatans who say or do things that sound and look amazing, yet are only magic.

They have no comparison to that which is created from nothing.

Note that when magicians do a trick they always start with something.

I God the Father started with nothing  Such a hard concept for us to grasp – we just can’t get it.  That is why you are offered the opportunity to believe. 

So don’t hesitate to say you believe and be humble enough to realize that you will never be able to explain the intricacies of this belief.

We are all afraid to believe in something we can’t explain because it makes us look like fools.

But does it?   It really makes you look like people of faith in something far greater, more superior than you.  It is not a fools errand to believe, rather it is foolish not to.

You see, you can’t explain away all that you see and that happens just to chance  It is an endless spiral of going nowhere, chasing your tail around like you know and understand all things.

So when the brain reaches its limits of understanding and knowing that is when believing takes over.

Be happy that you have the opportunity to believe and not see or understand.  I have told you that already in the Bible.

I don’t look to you for explanations about Creation – I know them already.

I look to you to believe because I have told you so.

If you can’t grasp Me and our relationship, you will most certainly have a hard time believing that I have created the universe and continue to do so in the NOW. 

So those who do not believe in Me have got to try to find a way to explain all that is around them.

They must get so frustrated.  What a futile endeavor.

How do they explain how their skin cells live and die and reproduce?  How?

They try to find out without asking Me.  Can you imagine the cures that could be reached if people asked Me. 

So you say you have asked Me and gotten no answer.  But have you asked Me only hoping I’ll answer or maybe I’ll answer.

Do you believe that I can reveal cures to those who sincerely believe in Me and ask with great humility?

You see if you want the honor and recognition yourself, then you are not going to ask Me because if I give you the answer, you can’t take the credit for it.

Sure, things get gradually revealed through research, yet no one, I should say, not many, research by asking Me first and waiting for My response.

They like to dabble and try and try again.

The puzzle is so simple when we consult with the Maker of the Puzzle.

And part of My answer may include the fact that you have to stop doing this or that to Mother nature.

And who wants to hear that if it means that we lose the opportunity to make more and more money?

Who or what is your God?  Who or what is your center and driving force?

What do you believe in more than Me?  It popped into your mind right away didn’t it.

Remember no matter what the circumstance – Ask Me, unless you fear the answer that could turn your world topsy turvy and then what?

So sometimes we would prefer to go ahead with life in the dark rather than know.

There are certain things I do not reveal and you, as a believer, will have to accept that.

However, if you ask Me, I will let you know if it is an answer that is good for your soul or not.

And you must believe; trust that that answer is all you need, if you want to stay in a loving relationship with Me.

I do not need to fully answer any question you ask Me, yet you have to believe that I do answer each and every question you ask Me. 

For you it may not be what you expected or wanted to hear, but it is My answer.  And BELIEVE that My answer far surpasses any solution you may have considered to act on.

Believe that I am God.

Believe that I love you  unconditionally.

Believe that I want a personal relationship with you, not with a big crowd but with each of you in that crowd.

Believe that rain falls and sun shines.

Believe that horses whinney.

Believe that trees bloom and die.

Believe in stars that are far beyond any telescope.

Believe that I want to share My kingdom on earth with you right now.

So sit and listen to My Heart talk to your heart and settle the world’s problem --  lack of self love.  And you don’t have to go out and change the heart of the world.  Believe oh Believe that it is your heart that I want to change. Remember this is a personal relationship.  I am one on one with each of you. 

If your heart learns to love as I do, then the world will change. 

Night, God bless.  And remember to say “I believe in you God” knowing this short prayer takes in all the universe and all My creation.  Such a small affirmation that covers a trillion things.

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Look Around

#85    Jan. 17, 2013,  Thursday, St. T. Chapel  10:10a.m. before Blessed Sacrament

My words are unshakeable.  You may want to shake some of them off but each one is sacred and eternal.

Hush your mind.  Still your heart. (How can I still my heart.) By ‘still your heart’ I want nothing that is unpeaceful abiding there.  Your heart gets frantic when unpeaceful thoughts and emotions fill it.  So still your heart. 

Cross over into My heart and look around.

What do you see or perceive?  There is no loneliness, no questioning, no what ifs or should haves.

It is in the presence of the eternal Father – created by Him and nurtured by Him.

It remains open and free to anyone who approaches. No one is turned away.  It does not take stock of your past.  It wants you to abide in it NOW.

It does not shun from squalor, pain, abuse, meanness, hostility, bragging, discontent, shyness, lack of kindness. 

The opposites of these abide in My heart.  So how will anyone know about them if they don’t enter in.

My efforts to win souls for eternity are not based on shallow words.  My efforts are driven by My Sacred Heart.  I want all to know Me and knowing Me makes them so complete.

Although as humans they are surrounded by the busy world which is sometimes too busy for Me, they need a safe haven in which to come aside and realize the fullness of being human.

It is not all about pain and disappointment which many center on in their lives, but abiding with the One who shares in the pain, directs it to a healthier place.  The pain may not diminish, but the result of sharing the pain with Me, allows you to better endure the pain. 

Why do you run from pain?

We don’t welcome pain.  That sounds odd.  But I do not mean go looking for it, rather embrace it when it appears and bring it to Me.  Share your pain, share your feelings about the pain.  Tell Me what you would rather have.  Ask Me, beg Me to help you endure the pain if that is My will.

Do not become discouraged.  This pain really is meant to unlock doors in you that have been closed to Me. 

So when you come to Me with the pain, ask Me to show you not the root of the pain necessarily but rather what this pain reveals about you.

It is not about what you did or didn’t do that seems to have brought this pain on you. 

Rather with this pain – how will you react and reflect?

This pain wants to reveal something to you, about you, that needs to be brought to Me for healing.

I can, if it is My will, heal the pain.  But ask Me first to reveal what the pain is really trying to tell me about my relationship with myself, family, friends and rest of the world.

I never inflict pain, however I may allow it to appear to lead you closer to Me.

So when pain comes upon you

--     first ---- embrace it.

--    second ---- call it by name – pain in my toe, knee, head, etc.

--     third ----  bring it to Me and take the time with Me to look at this pain and see what it wants to reveal to you about our relationship.

Embrace it – because it is part of God the Father’s creation.

Call it by name -  Jesus has called you by name to journey with Him.  He called the apostles by name to come follow Him. 

Look at this pain with me --  the Holy Spirit wants you to understand, to know, to practice piety with this pain. 

Allow yourself to fall into the Holy Trinity with this pain. 

Go in peace.  Not necessarily pain free, but assured in your pain.

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Surrender or Offer?

# 84     Jan 14, 2013,  Monday, 10.am – st. Theresa’s chapel

Surrender yourself totally to Me.

This is different than offering yourself.

Yes the Morning Offering is a beautiful prayer yet it still is shy of surrendering.

Note that when someone is caught in war, there arms go up showing that they are surrendering – giving themselves over to the ‘other’ guy.

It is a very simple picture, yet says so much.

It says I am no longer in charge.  I am not fighting with you anymore to get my way, I relinquish all I have to you.  I will be obedient – march when you say march, stop when you yell stop, sit, eat on your command.

I own nothing, nothing is mine.  You are in charge of all of me.  But with a wartime surrender usually comes fear, insults, mistreatment, pain, forced labor, etc.

Yet surrendering to Me brings peace, freedom, a new outlook on a befuddled world, joy, humility, laughing, etc.

When you offer you and your day to Me, that is something you do easily and willingly and without losing any part of your control because you make the offering.  You are controlling the offering of you and your day.

Now when you surrender all to Me each day, each minute of the day, you step out of the control seat and welcome, beg Me to be in charge of your day.

When you offer you in the Morning Offering you finish with “O My God, I love you” – and I am so grateful for your love.

Yet, when you surrender yourself to Me it says “Jesus I know you love me, I trust you love me, I want You in charge of me and not me in charge of me.

So my surrendering banishes any of me in control.

If I know Jesus loves me (because He has said it) then why would I hesitate to surrender?

Because I am not full of Trust.  Trust in Him.

Yet I don’t have to be full of Trust, I have to be willing to be filled more and more with the grace to Trust and that only comes when I blindly surrender all of me to Him.

Surrender or offer – which will you choose?

Quiet your soul.  Quiet your soul.  You do not have to forgo one for the other – yet.

This is a gradual process and I just ask that you sit and ponder the difference and gradually be more willing to surrender.

It will not come instantly.  Yet, you wanting to be able to do it shows Me the graces you need to get there. 

DO NOT CHASTIZE yourself for not having seen this difference before.  Beating yourself up is only a sign of pride and you are trying like heck to bring ALL your pride to Me to My healing embrace.

Just thank Me for this revelation.

A step closer to a deeper relationship with Me NOW.

Sometimes when we find out something new, we regret not knowing it sooner.  So what you are saying is, that is ‘someone’s’ fault that you did not know this sooner?

Everything is revealed in My good time – the fullness of time.  It does not mean that before you knew this, the time was not put to the best of use.  This is folly.  This is foolishness.

Rather than sit regretting not being so inspired earlier on, I dare you to be joyfully thankful that you now know.

Praise God.  Yell out this revelation from the roof tops.  Be delighted that you have been so blessed by this revelation.

I have invited you to come closer and closer to Me, to grow closer and closer to Me – BUT you can’t do this.

I am the one who enlightens you and if you accept this enlightenment then you grow closer to Me.

I toss out these revelations.  They did not come from you or from your heart.

Yet they are waiting to be taken into a heart that is greedy for My guidance and love.

Now stop.  Sit with Me, adore Me, thank Me.

You are My beloved. I, Jesus, love you!  Be surrounded by this immense cloud of love;  let yourself get lost in it without fear.  Abide in Me.

I CAN

# 83    Jan. 13, 2013, Sunday, 10pm

Hear My voice 0 Jerusalem.

Hear My voice each person of God.

It will come to each of you in a different way.  Do not wish to ‘hear’ Me as someone else does.  Ask Me to speak to you as you need to hear.

I want to converse with you.  So ask Me to.  I want to.

Remember don’t try to figure out how you will do this.  You do nothing but ask Me to speak in and thru you in a way that makes sense to you. 

We often say “how can I do such and such?”  You can’t and be very satisfied with that answer.

I can do it for you.  You can’t.  I can.

It is not up to you to open your heart to My knocking.  You can’t do it.  The only way you can is to ask Me to open your heart to My love and My graces.

We go around in little circles trying to improve ourselves, trying to have a closer relationship with Me.

And I have told you – you can’t.  But pride and foolishness prevent us from hearing this Truth.

Just ask Me.  Put Me in charge of each situation.  Do you want to be closer to Me, then ask Me to help you with these special graces that you can’t conjure up yourself.

You can’t grace yourself.  You need My special graces to grow closer and closer to Me.  And I am the Only One who has access to these graces to hand them out.

I do not withhold them or hoard them.  I just have them by My very nature.  And by your very nature you do not have them.

I can give them to you in abundance if you ask for them.

So don’t waste your time trying to strive for this or that to get closer to Me.

It is a futile task.

But ask Me.  That certainly is not a futile task.

Ask Me to quiet your mind.  Do not try to do it on your own, thinking you have the ability to do this. You don’t. So ask Me.

When you have any problem ask Me to solve it.

You must learn to be TOTALLY reliant on My help.  Does this make you feel foolish, or miniscule, or of little worth or ability?

It takes strength and grace to ask for help.  It is not a sign of weakness but rather a sign of great strength.  Otherwise, we pretend we know all the answers and this is a False and a Most Deceptive way to live.  It does not make ‘you’ easy to live with ‘you’.

Harden not your heart.  Let it melt into Mine.  Ask Me to melt your heart into Mine if that is what you really want.

This is a form of suffering you know.  You suffer losing the crutch of self-control and have to step out in faith to Trust only Me.

Sit quietly and contemplate the times you trusted in Me and the times you did not.

Did you see a difference in the outcome of Trusting Me compared to trusting you?

Climb down from your ladder that wants you to reach for success all on your own.

You do not need a ladder to reach Me.  I am all around in great solid abundance.

You need to be willing to come aside and sit with Me.  And do not give Me the excuse “I just don’t have the time.”

I mete out time and I always give time to be able to sit and contemplate My words.  On the other hand, you search to find something to fill this time, so you can say “No, I just don’t have time.”

Be careful, be aware, you do not have any control of time --  we think we do, but we don’t.

I move the hands on the clock.  I tick time.

You can only take the time I freely give you and make it God-centered or you-centered.

Then you throw up the argument “then if I take time for myself, I am not taking God time?”

Oh, how readily we defend our right to ‘my time.”  You don’t own it, be sure of that.

Whatever you are doing is it ‘what Jesus would do?” – i.e. is it  centered on, based  on, His teachings of purity, piety, honesty, kindness, stillness, love?

If so then it is God-centered time.  If any of the negative feelings drive your time – jealousy, envy, gossip, etc., then you can easily see it is not God-time.

So treasure every moment that is centered on Me.  And ask Me to show you how to gather more of these moments and center them on Me.

What an adventure – to fill your time busily serving the Lord whatever you are doing – reading, walking, dishes, making beds, giving a talk.  There are so many moments that we can spend more with God.  Just ask Him to show you these. 

One of the prime ways is to hold your tongue.  Talk less and honor Me more by your silence and lack of ‘knowing-it-all.’

I have seen you do it already and it makes Me smile when I see you stop the thoughts from flowing into unnecessary words.

You have asked Me ‘to cleave your tongue to the roof of your mouth’ and you have seen how I do this and you have been obedient to it.

Yet, don’t forget to thank Me each time you say less – just ‘thanks’ and I will know what it is for and for whom you give thanks.

Now to sleep.  As you fall asleep ask Me to help you contemplate My Sacred Face. Just Ask and it shall be done.

God bless – I love you abundantly and beyond.

My Words

#82  Jan. 12, 2013,  Sat. 10:45 pm

Listen with your heart.  Avoid the jumble of thoughts in your head and listen with your heart.

What decision did you make today that came from your heart?

Were they love decisions?  Did you do them for love of Me or to better enhance you? 

Be sure to check with your heart.  Make sure you ask Me to shelter your heart in My Sacred Heart and to instruct it when needed.

Do not fumble around for words.  Just listen to what I want you to write.

Is it time to say something or time to be silent?  Which way does your head tell you.

However you have learnt that your head does not instruct this book.  Your heart wants to be obedient and thus you have another valuable lesson. 

Writing this book of Mine without inserting any of you, takes you from thinking with your head to responding to My call from your heart.

Do not make any attempt and try to explain away anything that I am asking you to write.

These are My Words and they will stand the test of time and touch hearts. 

So for some further instruction.

Do not let your pen go astray.  Write what I say and change nothing.

Look to your heart.  What does it ache to know?

To be more obedient, to be more trusting?

Are you aware of Me when I offer opportunities to trust beyond your fears. 

I will generously give you many opportunities to Trust beyond your fears if this is what your heart aches for.

Let Me surprise you and let it be a game – not a test – but a game to see if you can detect the moments I will present to you that call for your trust.

They may be small or large situations.  Don’t look for them, yet be aware when you come across one.

If you Trust Me then you will love more.

It is only natural.

Fear does not allow for love to grow.  Fear stifles love and keeps it very self focused.  So how much can you love yourself?  You can’t because even when you think fear is protecting you, thus taking care of you, it isn’t. 

Fear blinds you, hampers you, brings you to you and not to Me.

So Trust and Fear often clash – which do you think has the greatest force behind it?

Trust of course has My backing.  Fear has your backing.  Which should be stronger?  Yet which rules your life?

Why do we trust that we know better than God?

It is a puzzle isn’t it. We give honor and glory to Me by mouth yet our actions indicate that our words are built on shaky ground.

They sound great to our ears and the ears of others.  They should, like we believe we are true followers of Christ. But that is not so.  You say you believe yet fearfully run away to trust in you when circumstances that are confounding appear. 

Let down the barriers of fear.  Let Me come into your heart and invite your heart to come into Mine.

Trust beyond fear.  Trust that fear only binds you.  Start with that in your mind.

Thrust fear in the path of Trust.  Start with small things.  Really small things. 

Trust that the Sun will come up tomorrow.

Trust that rain will fall down.

Trust that all snow flakes are different.

These may sound silly and trite but you have to build up your Trust Treasury.

Trust that the clothes you hang on a hanger will hang there.

You can make them silly and simple.  I don’t mind.

But I want you to start with trusting in something.

Recognize that you already trust that a paper clothes hanger will not hold your clothes.

Trust that you did not paint the blue sky.

Trust that ice can be slippery to walk on.

You say you know all these things, yet at some point you had to trust that they were true (or false) as the case may be.

Do you trust that I died on The Cross to save you?  But you weren’t there, so how do you know I died on the Cross for you  --  because I have told you, through the apostles, My life journey on earth.

Were you part of the 5,000 who sat and listened to My Sermon on the Mount?  Yet you trust that it is true – or do you?

Aaah there is the crux of the quandary.

Do you trust My words or not?   “I am with you always”  --  do you Trust that I am?  Then why fear?

Think of all the simple phrases I have said in the Bible – all for your benefit – do you believe them?  Or just some?  And what ones do you find really hard to Trust?

List them.  Sit with them.  Look at them with Me by your side.  Ask Me to explain more if that is what you feel you need.

I know what I have said and it is all to benefit your soul.   So ask Me.  Seek My counsel on this or that phrase I have spoken.

I want you to Trust that what I have said is all True.

So read My words.  Bring them to Me, not to debate, but to Trust that I will enlighten your heart as to their meaning in your life. 

Pick up your bible right now and just open it anywhere in the New Testament and listen to My Words.  They are sacred.  They are central to your well being.

They are rich and they enrich. 

They slow the heart from racing ahead of itself.

They draw you into My World of eternity that is dimensionless.

They encourage, caution, instruct, reveal.

They invite, they reach out, they answer, they ask.

Read some of My Words then sit and tell Me “Jesus I trust the words You have spoken.  Jesus I want to trust the words You have spoken.  Help me please.”

Now Trust that as you read My Words your heart will grow ever richer in our relationship.

Hold My Lifeless Body

#81   Jan. 11, 2013, Friday – on waking, and continuing later in the day, at home.

The Lord said: Clasp My dead body to your heart.  Do as My Mother did when they took My lifeless body down from the Cross.

She held Me oh so close to her heart. 

Here there is no more life in Me.

Here she could not hear My voice anymore.

Here she spoke words of love to My lifeless body.

Here she had to Trust as she had never trusted before.

She wept over Me.  Not because I had suffered so, but because we loved each other so.

What devastation must have struck her tender heart.  What more must she suffer?  Yet she suffered for love and through love and with love.

Do you dare caress My lifeless body and hold Me close to your heart? 

There is nothing more for Me to say.  Would you have despaired?  Would you despair today if I seem lifeless in your life? 

Would you still hold Me tenderly in your arms when all seems lost? 

Would you still proclaim Me as God when there is no response from Me?  When I seem dead to you?

Would you still be willing to follow this lifeless body even though all life seems lost?

Would you hold Me tenderly and whisper words of love that when life ends can’t be taken from you?

Would you bend over and kiss My face when I am cold to your touch?

Would you whisper how much you love Me when My ears seem to no longer be able to hear?

Is your love for Me only for a life-time or will it pass strong through into eternity?

Does death stop your love for Me, for others --  friends and relatives who have died?

Will you hold Me close right now to your heart and hold My lifeless body in your arms and still Trust beyond Trust?

Sit with Me lifeless in your arms. 

This is such a switch because you usually want to climb into and be held in My arms.

Sit with Me and hold My lifeless body in your arms.

Whisper into My non-hearing ears how much you love Me, tenderly love Me – not loved Me, but love Me.

Hold Me close and tenderly stroke My bleeding brow and tell Me that you are willing to suffer for love of Me. 

Hold My scarred hand in your hand, put your finger into the nail hole and really believe in Me.

Hold Me tenderly and tell Me all the dreams that have gone unanswered.

Hold Me tenderly and tell Me all that you think you knew that seems so small now.

Hold Me and tenderly smile at My face that smiles back at you even in death – if you believe.

Sit with My Mother as she tenderly holds Me.

Hear what she whispers to her Son, to you.  See how her heart does not stop believing in Her Son even though death seems so final.

Say nothing to her but sit with her.  Become part of the Pieta.  You and all are part of the Pieta.  Mother holds you tenderly in Her arms at death knowing that this kind of death is not final – it may seem so to the world, but it is not.

Sit and say nothing.  Just absorb her tender feelings that she has for her Son who to her reflects all mankind.

Tell her nothing.  Ask her nothing.   Be oh so content to be part of this eternal picture. Love given, Love received time and time and beyond time again.

So take the time – just grab it when it presents itself (to you from Me) and hold My lifeless body close to your heart.

Know that My lifelessness is only perceived, it is not the reality of eternity. 

Yet enjoy the scene.  What, you say --  ‘enjoy the scene of Your lifeless body in my arms?’

OK – Find the True Joy of holding My lifeless body in your arms.

2 Very Short messages

#79     Jan. 8, 2013, 4:30pm,  Tuesday, last  day in Muscat

Rest in My peace.  Do not let your heart be troubled.  Listen for My assuring voice.  Wait for it to speak.  Quiet all the inner anxiousness.  I am with you.  What can you fear?

Take time to thank Me for your day so far. 

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#80     Jan.10, 2013,  Thursday, returning home

Contemplate My Sacred Heart that is full of love for each and every human being.

Who do you wish to surrender to Me right now?

Encouragement, not Discouragement

#78     Jan. 5, 2013,  Saturday, Muscat, 8:30 p.m.

Come aside.  I have some things to share with you.

Sit quietly and content with Me.  You know I love you and care for all your needs.

Do not lose heart due to those around you.  Remember to see Me and love Me in them no matter what the circumstance.

It is easy to see Me in many when all seems cozy in your world.

But it is a different picture when you aren’t feeling yourself and you are not receiving positive feedback from others.

It seems they may not care.

But why does this upset you?   Do you need their caring attention to make your life complete?  I think My people think that way which only takes you from looking at Me and glorifying Me back to poor ignored you.

You cannot complete your life hoping for their sunshiny approval  and attention.

Because when you don’t get it how do you feel?  Ignored, unloved, not the center of attention.

Always, always thank Me for bringing these ‘situations’ into your life.  If these do not come, you will think you are making such great progress in your spiritual life.  However, I allow these situations to occur so you will realize that you have far to go.

Now this should not lead to discouragement – but rather encouragement.

If you had completed your journey with Me there would be nothing exciting for your soul to seek. 

I want you to see that you are still very human with human weaknesses that you may have to address daily.  And be grateful that I give you the time to address them.

Just because you grasp something once, doesn’t mean that it won’t return.  You cannot escape this, so don’t become distraught and disappointed.  Rather continue to return to Me for love and support. 

These are not tests to test you.  However as part of the  human experience, some things repeat and repeat.  It is not their repetition that should concern you, but your response that you are supposed to continue to work on with My help. 

It is a challenge to live in the fullness of your humanity each day.  You cannot avoid life.  Yet you can respond differently than you did in the past.  This is the marvelous challenge of knowing Me and wanting to walk with Me and being patient with what each day in your life presents.

Will you let your negative self centered emotions dominate your life each day?   Or will you ask My help in each circumstance thus growing closer to Me and further away from the self-centered you.

I am not using the words ‘self-centered you’ in a mean way, but you now realize that I am endeavoring to point out to you that you are healthier when centered on Me and not as healthy when centered on you.

That is the Truth which I know you need and want to hear.

So take ‘you’ out of the situation and put Me front and center and give Me permission to work on it so you will grow closer to Me and to those I love. 

My Sacred Heart

#77   Jan. 3, 2013, Thursday, Muscat

sit quietly and contemplate My Sacred Heart. 

What do you notice about it? 

(the Lord gave me time to contemplate this with no other messages.) 

Proclaim the Greatness of the Creator

#76     Jan. 3, 2013,  Thursday, 9:15a.m., Muscat

Thank you for coming aside to be in My eternal presence.

See how we fit together.  We need to grow together as one.

Your need for Me far outstrips My need for you, yet I know that you need Me to fulfill our togetherness.

Quiet your heart.  Listen to the birds song – they are joyful without a care.  They flit from flower to tree in great abandonment. They do not reap or sow, do they?

They exist to give pure joy to their Creator.  Their very being brings joy to His other creatures.  It allows the flowers to participate in creation.  It allows the trees to play their role in creation.  Do you see the togetherness of them all?

There is no competition for My attention.  They are.  They are in their fullness.  Even when diseased and old, they still offer to Me their lives. 

Now stop and think. 

How often do I offer all of me to God?

How often do I allow stray thoughts to enter my being that take away from my worship of the Father? 

The birds very song, sound proclaim the greatness of the Creator.

Does my voice proclaim the greatness of the Creator?

How often does my ‘song’ not reflect the glory that is the Creator’s alone?

Yet I tell you sometimes to still your tongue.  That is because it flutters about nonsense, gossip, prattle that is not worthy of the Creator.

We are afraid to keep our tongue still.  Yet it is a most necessary lesson.  Unless it sings God’s praises, it should be still.

You will notice when you begin to think before you speak that you will ‘chat’ less.  And this is a good thing.  It will show you that your voice is precious and is meant to proclaim the Good News as opposed to just proclaiming any slightly newsy item.

Let Me explain.  It does not mean that you say nothing.  It means that what you say has worth.  It means that your voice does not waste its ability to talk on nothingness.

Sure you are going to chat at times, but already you have noted (to Me) – or I should say I have noted that you have held your tongue and not said things.  I don’t know if anyone else has noted this, and that certainly does not matter. 

What matters is that I have noted it and can see that it is becoming easier and easier for you to hold your tongue and not add any extra words, just to say something.

As you abide in Me, you will continue  to see the many times that our words are wasted in not giving glory to the Father. 

So it is always gradual.  It is not something that you will brag about because those bragging words will not be said to give honor and glory to My Father.  They will be used by you to get the attention that only My Father deserves. 

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Help me Lord to love You in this person

#75     dec. 30, 2012, Sunday, 11:21p.m.  Muscat

Thank you for coming aside.  I want to share with you some more of My Words.

I need to repeat how much I love each and every person.  Let no one not know this.

Look at the gentle people I bring into your life.  They are easy to love – so you think they must be easy for Me to love.  Do not measure your love for them and feel this measures My love for them. 

What appeals to you about them that you love them?  They are nice, kind, holy, pleasant, etc. 

Do you really think I use the same measurements?  No. I go to their heart.  I look at their souls.  I see how precious they are to the Creator of the world.  I know the Father has a purpose for each person He creates – and I love each of His creations.

I do not measure them according to a nice personality, kindness, easy to get along with.

These are superficial human traits that most definitely are good but sometimes they do not reflect the heart – the need in that person’s heart to be truly loved, truly forgiven. 

So love people for their kindness, etc., but do not dislike them if they lack such traits.

Unfortunately that is how we determine whom we like or don’t like. 

Such a waste of precious love time.  See Me in each person, see Me whom you say you love.  See Me in them and love Me in them.  Thereby you will gradually love the person who is really Me sometimes in a rough disguise.

Your prayer can be simple “Help me Lord to love You in this person.”

Go through the people you know, in your head, and when each comes to mind say that simple prayer.  Discard no one even if you love them already, use this simple prayer on each one. 

I will put this ache on your heart.  An ache to love Me in each person – with no conditions at all, no questions, no hesitation. 

This is a great prayer and a great exercise that can be done any time of the day or night. It is an exercise for your soul – expanding its boundaries far beyond what you could ever attempt to do on your own.

So, be still, know that I am God and that I love you and am waiting for you to love Me abundantly in others.

night, thank you for being obedient. 

Pride haunts you.

#74     Dec. 28, 2012, 4:45pm, Muscat --  Friday

My Words want to flow and flow.

I want you to be reassured of My love for you.  I feel this is something you need to hear today. 

What is going on in your life that has disturbed you?  Please share it with Me.  I am always here to hear and advise.  I long to speak to your heart and set things right that you may feel are all awry. 

Come aside and sit with Me.  Share with Me your concerns.  See I am here for you, want to honor your needs, want to show you how worthy you are of My attention.

Spill the beans.  Come on, tell Me what is troubling you.  Do not be afraid to share anything with Me.  NOTHING is trite, Nothing is too small or too big.

But I know there is something bothering you, so please lean in close to My ear and whisper if you find it too hard to say out loud.

Lose yourself in My presence.

Lose the weight that is dragging you down. 

Lose your self-centeredness and let Me be your center.

Lose your pride. Swallow it.  Denounce it as not something that enhances our relationship.  Put it aside – give it to Me.  Let Me show you the harmful price of pride.

Let your-self slip into My loving arms. Sit quietly with Me as I instruct you about your pride.  Do not throw up any arguments but see pride through My eyes and hear the Truth that frees any soul that is open to hearing and receiving it. 

Quiet your pride.  It is such a waste of time and energy to nurture pride. 

Do not feed it.  Run to Me if you feel your pride overwhelming you and lay it at My feet.  Let Me embrace your pride – your pride which hales from all sorts of insecurities. I did not create you to be insecure. 

I created you to be secure in My Words, My Presence.  Yet pride, fed by our fallen nature, creeps in so sneakily that sometimes we don’t even recognize it as pride.

Tell Me what you think pride looks like.  Is it pretty?  Does it make you bolder, more beautiful, more knowledgeable, more attractive?

Pride does not build us up.  It reduces us further and further into dependence on ourselves and not on Me  --  your One and Only God.

Pride does not strengthen you.  It eats away at your loving, outgoing character and does not enable you to look at others without criticism.

Pride haunts you.  How do I look?  Am I saying the appropriate thing?  Am I liked – more than others?

So all this time you are talking to pride, you are not talking to Me.

The sin of pride drags you far from our relationship into a self-centered frenzy feeding of futility  --  trying to make you better – in whose eyes?  For what purpose? 

It becomes such a maze of me, more me, more me.  Taking you away from the only Me that can satisfy your EVERY need.

So you see the effect of sin.  It is not that what you do is bad, but rather what you do to  yourself that is harmful because you take you further and further away from Me. 

It is interesting because we don’t grasp sin.  It is not doing a bad thing so much as going further and further away from Me.  Do you see the difference? 

It takes you deeper and deeper into self-dependency which is such a futile move.  How can you save you?  tell Me please.  How can you save you? 

So don’t avoid sin because you think it is a bad thing to do.  Avoid sin because it takes you away from Me. 

I know you may say that you know this fact already, however that is not how you react.

You tell your sins in confession to re-cleanse your soul, to start over on a better foot. 

However, you are seeking to improve you.  You are not seeking Me to improve you.

Next time before going to confession, come aside and sit with Me and ask Me to point out your sins.  I will not do this gloatingly.

I will do this so you will be able to look beyond what you see as your sins and come to see what I want you to confess.

How many times have you asked Me to point out to you what I want you to confess?  Not many, eh?

Because you are still caught up in you controlling this Sacrament.

You want to show Me and the priest how well you have examined your conscience.

But since you are not the fullness of Truth, there may be things you overlook which are really more important to the building of our heart to heart relationship.

So, the next time I urge you to go to confession, even if you feel you do not have anything in particular to confess, ask Me right away what I feel you need to bring to Me through this Sacrament.  Ask Me, Ask Me.

And then, watch out for pride because pride will eagerly step in and tell you that you can’t possibly confess THAT sin to a priest. What will he think of you? 

So pride keeps you from receiving the many graces of this Sacrament, by telling you that you can tell your sin directly to Me, not through My representative here on earth.

Do you see how pride is so destructive?  It does not allow your soul to feed on the graces I have supplied through this Sacrament.  It tells you that there is no need for the Sacrament which I instituted. 

Do you realize what you are saying?  I AM IN CONTROL LORD.

I WILL PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT ABOUT YOU I LIKE AND DON’T LIKE.

Can you imagine the pride it takes to come to this conclusion?  No wonder we cannot have a relationship when you have decided what TRUTHS you will follow and what TRUTHS you will discard?

So how can you follow Me this way and not follow Me that way?

How do you know which way is the right way?  If I am THE WAY, and you choose not to follow My Way all the time – whose way are you following the other times?

What extreme confusion this places in one’s soul.  Talk about losing your way. 

Note:  you lose your way.  You cannot lose when you follow My Way.  The only thing you will lose is your pride which only leads you in your ways which do not lead to full union with Me. 

So what are you willing to give up to follow only My Way?

Come aside and sit with Me and ask Me to show you the fullness of My Way and where your way gets in The Way.

I tell you,  you may not be able to give up this or that immediately, but at least you will be enlightened as to what you need to relinquish to Me.

I have heard you ask “What do I need to do Lord?”  But you don’t always sit with Me and wait for an answer and be patient.  You may not get instant insight, but even your persistent asking shows Me that your heart is sincere in this quest. 

Don’t let your pride discourage you.  And oh it will try!  Pride only wants you satisfied with yourself.  It does not want you satisfied to serve Me. 

Come aside and sit with Me and ask Me to show you how your pride has prevented you from coming ever more closer to Me.

I will honestly tell you because I want you ever more closer to Me. 

Now smile, Know you are so, so loved by your constant companion who wants to put your pride in its proper place --  in obedience to Me. 

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