Graces and more Graces

#231   Wed. Jan. 29/14, 10:25am, St.Theresa’s before Blessed Sacrament

You come to Me today knowing how I Grace you.

I am delighted  that you are so aware that I Love you and want to heap Many Graces on you.

The most important Grace for you, you realized, was not to stay in your self, feeling sorry for yourself, feeling unloved.

You see, we see the good things that make us happy as My Graces on you.

Now realize that one of the strongest Graces I have for you, and I offer you, is that of not feeling sorry for yourself.

When we get in that mode of thought, we do not see the Grace in it.

Yet in itself you can acknowledge My Hand and ultimately My Grace.  Not My Grace that brings you out of this negative mode, but My Grace that allows you to experience this mood so you can make the choice to love or remain in selfish love.  This it the Grace of Opportunity!

The chance to check your heart and see if it is living in My Love or living in your self-centered love.

You never saw negative circumstances as presenting you with the Grace of Opportunity did you?

What a new revelation.

You thought coming to Me in this mood and asking for the Grace to get through it or over it was the only Grace attached to this negative mood.

So look on every circumstance as an opportunity presented by Me to allow you to make use of ALL My Grace Resources.

You not only need Graces to get out of such moods or circumstances but you need the Graces to see that this is an opportunity to choose to do My Will or remain in your own.

If everything ran beautifully you would miss out on a lot of My Graces of Opportunity.

So with the Grace of Opportunity there is the Grace of Realization. 

Realizing that this Opportunity Grace allows you to move closer to Me your loving God.

From the Grace of Opportunity, there is the Grace of Realization and from this is the Grace to Act – to act to choose My Will.

Even if you do not choose My Will.  You still have the Grace of Free Will – which enables you to choose Me or you.

Now choosing you as the center does not allow the Grace of Free Will to flourish.