An ah-ha faith moment

#264  Wed. May 7/14, 3:50pm, St. Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

I come to be with you today. Really, I am here waiting for you to come to be with Me today.

Thank you for coming.  Thank you for heeding My nudging.  I love to be with My People hearing their prayers and concerns, being with them in their joy and sorrow.

Do you really believe it is Me in this host before you?  If you find this hard to grasp, and many may, do not hesitate to ask Me to inspire and enlighten you to the fact that it is really and truly Me.

You do not need to see the face of Jesus as you presume it to be.  You are asked to see Me, the Real Presence.

Do not look to be informed by your human eyes.  Look  to be inspired by My True Words to you.

Look at Me with your soul.  Detect the Real Me in your soul.  Let this scatter the darkness of doubt.

Ask Me to instill in you the faith that you will believe, that you can believe it is really Me present in the Sacred Host.

I  want to enlighten you.  I am here to enlighten you.  I want you closer and closer to Me.  So just ask for the faith to believe.  You will not have to try to explain this to anyone.

You see faith doesn’t have an explanation.  It just is faith, faith in Me and in My Words to you.

So if someone asks you to explain it to them do not go searching for words.  Your gentle response is “I believe.”

If they still are eager to grasp it, ask them if they are willing to say to Me “Lord enlighten me. Give me faith that I may believe.”

How often do we ask for faith?  We either presume we have it or we don’t have it.

So, go ahead, ask for faith --- for those of you who feel you have it I will give it in greater abundance.  Do not be satisfied to say “I have faith” without craving for more.  We think if we have faith that we have the fullness of faith. Not so.

If you have faith you will be driven to ask for more faith.

If you feel you have no faith, what is stopping you from asking for it?

Perhaps you don’t want it.

Perhaps you feel comfortable without it. 

Perhaps if you say you don’t have faith it is because you may be afraid to say “I believe in God.”

Interesting eh?

Those of us with faith can say “I believe in God” and still feel stranded as to what this really means.

Those of us who seem to be without faith are struggling to make sense of life.  Really!  Because if you do not believe in Me what do you believe in?  Because ‘it’ has all been created by Me, so it can be very unsettling to believe in something that has been created and yet not believe in the Creator of the something.

Look at a tree.  What do you see?  The rough bark, the branches, the leaves, the height and size.  Do you believe it is a tree or do you just think perhaps it is a tree.

What makes a tree a tree?  Because there are all kinds of trees that we call trees yet they do not all look alike.

Remember how the people wanted to see ‘signs’ even after they had seen Jesus’ miracles.

They definitely were asking to see with their souls --- even though they may not have even realized that.

Because once you had seen Jesus’ miracles what more did you need?

Ah-ha

Just because we see with our eyes does not give us faith!  We need to ask God to take us beyond the visual into the infinite.  We will then see Jesus with the eye of our soul.

He will not have long hair and a long robe and marks on His Hands and Feet. That still satisfies only our human senses.

I want you to bestir your soul senses.  I don’t want you to be able to explain perfectly what it is you see with your soul. 

It is almost like an ah-ha moment when it is all clear even though we do not physically see it.

When we come to chapel, intentionally bring your soul.  Say “Come on to the chapel with me soul and enjoy your Maker.”

Now this sounds silly, but how many of us come to chapel physically, say the prayers we have known for a long time or short time and do not ask our soul to participate?

We usually are praying from our heads and not from our souls.  Ask your soul to lead you in prayer.  Let go of your ideas of prayer and let your soul pray on your behalf.

Your soul may say nothing but rather be content, most content, to be in the presence of its Creator.

What faith --- to be content knowing, believing you are in the presence of your Creator.