Who You Are

#230  Monday, Jan 27/14, 9:30am St.Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament

So you came to sit quietly.

I ask you to sit quietly and listen to My Words.

Present yourself to Me.  What do you say about yourself when you present yourself to Me?

Tell Me who you are.  Tell Me who you think you are.

Are you defined by dates, times and places?

Or do you think to say “I am a child of God.”

That is all you have to say because I know all about you – name, dates, times, places.

I want you to know who you are.

I know in the world in which you are living that this kind of response does not cut it.

But, I want you to know that when you come into My Presence I know you as a child of God  --  one of His Beloved.

Again, I just want your soul to see how it is seen by Me and the Father.

I do not distinguish height, weight, hair or eye color, tall or short, accomplishments or not.

The Father sees you as His Beloved Child.

I, Jesus, see you as His Beloved Child entrusted to Me for your salvation.  The Holy Spirit lends credence to the fact that you are a child of God by sharing God’s Wisdom, Understanding with you.

“I am a child of God.”  “I am God’s Beloved one.”

Take ownership of this Free Enormous Gift that God has lovingly bestowed on you.

You see we can only get closer to the Father if we acknowledge to Him that we have received this Gift and recognize ourselves in His Eyes.

We may often wonder how God sees us?

Now you know.  He sees you as His Beloved One – He wants you to claim to your heart that you are a child of God and that is how you will perceive yourself from now on.

What a relief!  You don’t have to wander around wondering how you would describe yourself to your Father.

I am Your Child God.

This simple sentence proclaims to your heart your intrinsic value in God’s Creation.  It also lets God, your Father, know that you recognize and want to proclaim that you are His Child.

And thus as a ‘child’ we are more likely to seek His Advice and Guidance.  When we see we are still a vulnerable child, we know we need to go to Him for guidance.

Children run to their parents with the simplest of questions expecting an answer that will satisfy their curiosity.

So we can run to the Father with our questions expecting, as innocently as little children do, that He will answer.

As a child you open your heart more readily to love and compassion. 

You are much less judging.

There is still sublime innocence.

You see nothing stupid about running to your ‘dad’ for advice, protection, guidance.

As we get older we allow our child-like innocence to be replaced by the various goings on in the World.

Pray, yes pray for a return of that precious innocence which does not judge but trusts and loves.

Ask for the innocent heart of a child.

Then you will not be embarrassed to claim to Me and to all the World that you are a child of God.

You will genuinely point to Me as your God & Saviour because you are proud to claim Me as yours!

He is My Father.  He is My Brother.  He is My Counselor.

You can say these phrases as an adult, however you may not say them with a child’s trust and innocence.

Do not be embarrassed to claim Me as your Father.

When you pray with the heart of a child you will find that your prayers are simple.  You will come right to the point. “I want some gum.”  Four short words that let you know right away what is on the child’s mind.

Now if you tell Me “I just want My sister to know you.” Say it from your child heart – full of love for that person, trusting that I will do it, and being satisfied with how I do it.

Your ways are not My Ways.

As a child I may ask for a tree house.  I know my dad loves me enough that I can ask him for this.  I trust he heard my request, and even when the end product may not look exactly as my child’s mind had imagined, I still think it is pretty nifty what he did make.

Now, for sure, I could get upset with the results and stomp around.  But most children won’t and don’t.

I want your heart satisfied with My Responses to your requests.

It will only be satisfied if first you believe that I, your Father, am acting on your behalf out of Love, Immense Love for you.

Keep your heart unhardened and open to the flow of Love.

See beyond the adult heart you now have and check out your child heart.  What entered in that erased innocence, trust, pure love, abounding joy?

Now come to Me and ask “I want the pure love I had as a child Lord.”

But are you ready to give over all that is in your heart that stands in the way of this pure love? 

Where to start?  Start by proclaiming to Me and to your heart that
“I am a child of God.”

Immediately that sentence of non-ownership by you, avails your heart the Grace to open and trust more and more in Me.

Can you see the surrender prayer here?

“o Jesus I surrender myself to you, take care of everything.”

“O Jesus, since I am a child of God, I can surrender myself to you and I know you will take care of everything.” 

So when you say the simpler rendition of this prayer, say it from the heart of the child who is praying to God. Say it from the innocence and unclutteredness of your child heart.

Sometimes if you ask a child what they plan to do, they may answer “I don’t know.”

What a blessing for them.  They have not cluttered their day with all sorts of plans but, without knowing it, have left their day freer for God to organize.

I tell you “Be like little children.”

So when you come to Me from now on, how will you present you to Me?

I am a child of God.

I am Your Child God.

AMEN.  Thank you for recognizing your marvelous relationship to Me and with Me. 

Let the floodgates of Grace flow into your child heart. 

Enjoy the child in you today.