Sit with this Image

#346   Wed. Feb. 4/15, 11pm, at home, burgundy journal

Let My People go. 

Do not stop anyone from seeking Me.  It does not matter how they do it, just allow them to seek Me.

If there are different ‘rooms’ in My Father’s House, then there must be different roads that lead to each one.

Praise God that there are so many avenues by which people can reach out and seek Me and find Me.

Our faith can know no bounds because we all come at God from different angles.

Why do I bring this up?  I want you to rest assured that some find Me after stepping away from Me for a while; others may never step away, but are not hotly seeking Me.

There are many approaches to Me.  I so want to be available for each person’s personality and need.

If there was only one route, some may never find it.

Yet the end of each route is a closer and closer relationship with Me.

Your life may have turned around on a miracle you saw;  it may have turned around after years and years of floundering, after years and years of doing your own thing and thinking that was the best it would ever be.

I want you to come to Me.  Take a bus, plane, walk, ride a bike.  But come to Me.

Let Me be the carrot you are chasing after.

Look at the sheep in the field.  They are scattered all over feeding and getting nourished by the grass I have Created.  Some are alone, some are in small groups.  Yet when their herder  wants them off the range and back home, he herds them.   Some run in the center of the pack, others run on the fringe of the group, one or 2 may get lost or be straggling along.

Yet in the end the herder persists and brings them all home safely.

Where are you in this sheep herd?  Are you in the center of the pack, on the fringes, straggling or quite lost?  Yet, you all will be herded home to come into My Presence and receive My Loving Mercy.

It must not matter to you how I judge those in the middle, or the stragglers, or the lost. That is My Right.  But I will tell you that I will judge each with Great Love.

Yet each sheep in the herd comes before Me singly.  I do not judge them as a pack.  I judge each one for themselves.

Do you know the Way Home to Me if you are lost?  Let Me herd your heart.  Let Me lead you.  How do you do that you ask?

You tell me that you are lost and ask Me to lead you Home.

But maybe the catch is that you don’t think you are lost, or you are having too much fun being lost.  But both you and I know that when you are lost, it is not fun.  It may be a bravado you put on to survive, but it sure as heck is not fun.

I want you to find the fullness of Joy in this life.  Not just something that satisfies the material you because that is not the ALL of you and thus it is not the fullness of Joy and fun.

I want you to thrive in this world, not just survive.  I want you to grow physically and spiritually and emotionally.  I want the very best for you.

And you know each of us is a lost sheep.  None of us has found the completeness of Me, so I encourage you to look under more rocks, seek new reading material, look for Me daily in Creation.

As you find the More of Me, your joy and gratitude will over flow. 

You will frown less and smile more. 

You will fear less and trust more. 

You will succeed in being fully human.

And to be fully human you have to be seeking to walk closer and closer with Me each day.

Ask Me each day when you come into My Sacred Heart to give you the Gift of Grace to Love more this day than yesterday.

I will supply it in abundance!

No matter where you find yourself in the sheep herd --- at the front, middle, edges, straggling or lost, you are still Mine.

You know Me.  You may not want to even admit that you know Me, but you do.

And the blessing that comes from acknowledging that you know Me brings a depth of Wisdom and Understanding that surpasses anything you could have thought up on your own.

Come aside and sit with Me.  Just imagine yourself on a park bench with Me sitting next to you.  Saying nothing, asking nothing.

Go on, just sit quietly and see yourself and Me on a park bench together.  Not looking at each other yet knowing the other is fully there.

Just sit with this image.