The Graces of My Commandment

#195  Sat. Oct. 26/13, 11:25pm, at home

I, the Lord, have called you aside. You know My Voice and you are obedient.

It was not part of your plan.  You were going to say some prayers and go to sleep, yet…

I want you to write about My Love that conquers ALL.

So many good people get caught up in good things, yet do not apply My Love, My Way to what they are doing.

Do not presume that your good works go unnoticed.  I thank you for these.  But I want to be the center of your good work.  

Does it promote unconditional love?  Is that the outcome of your undertaking?

Or does it promote a win/lose attitude?  So if you win, God must be on your side.  Yet if you lose what does that indicate to you?

Take confrontation out of it completely.  Tell yourself and others that the focus of anything you do for Me has to bring you to doing it with unconditional love.  If that is not your starting point, middle point and ending, then you are maybe only doing something good.

Does it encourage others to love unconditionally?  How do you measure success?  Is it only in your eyes and your terms, or is it rather through My Eyes and My Love? 

Do not waste your precious time if it does not bring you to unconditional love. 

Yes, as you are doing housework or cleaning out the car --- what is your soul’s attitude -- one of anger? indifference?, ho-hum-ness? impatience?

If you do not apply unconditional love to each situation big or small then you are missing out on the Graces of My Commandment – Love God, Love Neighbor.

I really want you to become more aware of loving at every instant of the day, of your life.

You will be in a better frame of mind & body if you do.

You are sleepy, yet keep this in mind and beg Me daily to show you how to love unconditionally at every moment. 

Night and God Bless.  Come aside and as you fall asleep contemplate My Face.

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.

Attitude or Habit?

#193 Tuesday, Oct. 15/13  10am, St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament

So you have your book out so let’s get together and I will dictate and you can write.

Welcome to the chapel.  It is not the same as yesterday, nor is it the same one day to the next.

The adorers are different, the temperature is different, the candles burn differently, the lights are on because it is overcast.

So each time we come to adore, we are doing it for the first and only time, this moment, in your life.

You have never been here before in this moment of time.  It is always new.

See the opportunities I offer you, each one of you, to start anew, to deepen our relationship anew, to wander in My Immense Creation anew.

We talk about our old ways and how hard it is to avoid habits we have nurtured.

But now think about this.  Each day you awaken not at the exact moment, brush your teeth not exactly the same as yesterday, each breakfast not exactly as you did yesterday.

Yet we do not relish these as new moments in our lives.  Have you thanked Me for awakening you this day, having you brush your teeth, eat your breakfast?

You do not have to ask My Permission, yet it would not happen without My Permission.  So thank Me.  This will be a habit you will not have to try to break, but rather try to build.

And your thank you to Me will always be new and for the very and only first time for this

moment in your life.  Pile up your thank yous.  They will never do you any harm.

You may say “I adore every day.”

It sounds like repetition doesn’t it? But it is not!

You do not adore the same today as you did yesterday.  Isn’t that grand.  It eliminates repetition so you can come closer and closer to Me and our union.

If we believe our adoring is the same day in and day out why would we bother to come each day?  Just tell the Lord “ditto” and be off doing something else.

But we know the call is greater than one of repetition.  It is one of confirmation – daily we arise and confirm and affirm our faith in Our Loving God.

And hopefully our relationship is growing with Him so that we can confirm and affirm “I want to be closer to You today than yesterday, Lord.”

That makes our adoration a-fresh.

We have to acknowledge to Him that His Presence in our lives is not stagnant.  It is alive and if it is alive it must grow.

Just as we grow from infancy to childhood to teen-hood to adult-hood to old age, our spiritual self is bound to grow when we come into contact more and more with God and open our hearts to His Creative Love.

Now our souls can get stagnant – yes for sure.  If you are content with your faith and don’t nourish it, of course it won’t grow, it will die.  Just as your body will die if you do not nourish it. 

So do not look upon coming to adoration as ‘the same old thing’ that you do every day.  Now, mind you, it may be if you do not entreat the Lord to help you to become more spiritual. 

So it is not the ‘habit’ of doing something, it is the attitude of doing something – the attitude of your heart and soul.

Do you just come to pass the time, to look good in others eyes, or have you found peace, nourishment, enrichment in My Presence.  Do you see the difference?  If the heart/soul do not change for the better then it is just a habit.

Yet how can you come before Me often and not be changed?  I will worm My Way into your heart.  I am most persistent.  Thank God for that, eh.

Remember to beg Me each day for a new heart. 

Remember that begging Me is not groveling – it is asking to be more My servant today than yesterday.  Complying with My Wishes rather than your plans.  Being flexible because you told Me you want Me in charge of your life.

Sometimes, you see, we say the words “I surrender myself to You” but our heart does not want to fully comply.  We think it does until a circumstance arises and oops “I don’t really want to do THAT, Lord.”

You have seen it lately Margo.  So smile when you see it because it is Me ACTIVE in your life obeying your surrender to Me.

Smile because you thought you were really surrendering till ooops.

Smile because you know it is Me jumping in and disturbing your plans which you thought you had surrendered to Me.

Smile because I LOVE YOU and want to show you how present in your life I want to be.

So nurture the habit of a surrendering heart.  It will never be an old habit, but will be renewed and renewed each time you surrender your heart to Me.  Because it takes conviction, belief, trust, love and a deep ache to know My Will for you.  So it will always be new because I give you a new day, not the same as yesterday or tomorrow, and offer you the opportunity to be closer to Me today than yesterday.

I invite all My Beloved to surrender their hearts to Me.  My Sacred Heart is Immense and will never turn away an eager heart.

I do not turn away uneager hearts either – it is the owner of the uneager heart that does not accept My Invitation to come and abide in My Sacred Heart.

Now do not be concerned about them as if you have to solve their dilemma.  Just bring your soul and their soul into My Loving Presence.

I already know your intentions for them, now you have to allow My Intentions to prevail in them and NOT yours.

You know what I am talking about Margo.  Each person who reads this knows what/whom I am talking about. 

You know where you feel you should jump in and exert your control.  I tell you solemnly to TRUST IN ME and let go of your ego.  I am in charge.

Give Me permission to be in charge.  Loosen My Bonds and let My Heart rule in their heart, not your limited vision of what the fix should be.

I just reminded you Margo that you do not need to know My Will, but rather you need to do My Will which is Let Go and Let God.

As you wish Me to act in their lives, please allow Me to act in yours.

Thank you for listening and writing. Thank you all for reading.  I love each one of you abundantly and beyond.