#277
Mon. June 30/14, 10am. St
Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament
You heard Me call you while you were
praying the seven sorrows of My Dearest Mother.
Thank you for responding to My Call to pray
these beads.
I want you to learn to pray in response to
My Call and not necessarily your plan.
You had started these beads, yet I called
when you were on the 4th sorrow – My Mother with Me as I carried the
Cross.
Contemplate that simple scene. Strip away all the others in the scene and
just see Me and My Mother.
Were there words said? Did she know by My Look that this was part of
our life together? Birth did not
separate us and neither would death.
How she had to cling to her heart, which
she had strengthened throughout her life by ‘pondering in her heart’ all that
the Father was revealing to her from the first moment of His Request and her
Affirmation response.
You notice she did not try to figure it out
in her head. She took all to her heart –
the center and life force of Love for her.
She did not ask questions as much as repeat
and repeat “Thy will be done!” That is
affirmation and pondering in one. She
did not have to take it apart and look at it from all angles.
The only way she perceived it was through
the Eyes of God himself. If He sees it
as such, that was good enough for My Mother.
You see, pondering something in your head
and pondering something in your heart are 2 very different scenarios.
In your head --- you are in charge.
In your heart --- the seat of Love, He is
in charge.
We want to figure things out so we can
explain them to ourselves and to others in human terms.
Not so for My Mother. She knew she did not need to see it clearly
with the mind’s eye. She was very
content to have it worked on and solved in her heart, not by her but by Me.
Sure she felt sorrow. She was human and living to the fullness of
being human. Yet, her sorrow was not
darkened by hopelessness.
Following God’s Will is NEVER a hopeless
endeavor.
Just because it may not seem to make human
sense, does not mean it is hopeless.
You see, that is how we humans perceive
hope and hopelessness. It is NEVER
hopeless if we have our heart and head focused on Jesus.
We do not have to see the answer,
understand the reason, feel good about the outcome because we have left all
with Him in His Hands and thus ALL will be Good.
And don’t just wait for the ‘will be
Good.’ Switch it to the present and
declare to your precious soul that “ALL IS GOOD.”
We can’t look to the future to be
Good. We must grasp the I AM here in the
present and thus “ALL IS GOOD.”
My Mother was not looking for better
times. She was seeing the Good in the
Moment. Her Son suffering and dying. She was not looking forward to the
Resurrection (All will be Good). She was
in the moment and through her human tears she saw that ALL was Good. She saw her Son, the epitome of Good, so even
though He was suffering – ALL was Good.
Do I make Myself clear? Perhaps not.
When My Mother gazed upon Me in My Agony,
she was in the moment and took this sadness not to her head but to her heart
which was stronger and the place from which each of her Fiats had been spoken.
Her heart was tender and thus allowed her
body to shed tears, yet her heart was strong because that is where she and God
really met and made their first Pact “Your Will be done.”
My Mother will tell you: “I certainly cried to see My Son suffering,
yet I know that this was part of His Humanity and Divinity and that I must
quietly watch and share and support Him in His Suffering.
I would not have reached out to stop His
Pain. I just wanted Him to know I was
walking with Him in His Pain. Supporting
Him as He eagerly fulfilled the Will of the Father.”
We were both eager to fulfill the Father’s
Will, otherwise we would have opted out and chosen not to undertake this
suffering path to Glory. Because at the time of our suffering, it did not look
to anyone as if there would be any Glory.
Yet He and I held to this bond we had – to do the Will of the Father.
Go now in peace, seeking from your heart to
do the Father’s will --- knowing, being reassured by Me, Jesus and My Dear
Mother that it leads to Glory.
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