Greedy to Retaliate

#405  Tues. Aug. 4/15, 10am, St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament

O My People.   O how we fall into ourselves.

How we are treated, how we decide to treat others, how we want to withhold forgiveness, how we want to lash out, how we want to make us look better than the other.

When these feelings surface, run to Me and jump into My Most Sacred Heart.

Ask Me to relieve you of these oppressive emotions.  They do not bring you closer to Me.  They are not worth cherishing even for one tiny minute.

Erase all of these through immersion in My Most Sacred Blood.  Do not let the evil one convince the “poor me” self into feeling that you can hold onto them for an hour or just a few minutes.

It is just like touching something hot --- how long can you hold onto it before it burns deep, deep into your flesh.

Well then, how long can you hang onto sin that burns deep, deep into your precious soul?

You can’t without it leaving a serious scar --- one that will eventually need healing.

So how can we endeavor to keep our souls scar-free --- by bringing your temptation to Me immediately so that I can burn through the trash that leads to sin.

Do not, do not try to come before Me and justify why you feel this way and why you want to continue to feel this way.

Do not ask Me if you can retaliate just a bit, just for a few seconds.  No.  You know you can’t and you shouldn’t, but you would dearly love to have My Permission to do just a smidging of retaliation.

The “self” thinks it will be satisfied if only it can retaliate.  You know you have all sorts of responses that you would like to say to the other to satisfy your greed for retaliation.

Did you realize that greed and retaliation go hand in hand?

You want retaliation so, so badly above even serving Me your Loving, Caring Master.

Isn’t that greed?  You probably never thought of it this way did you?  But it is.

You are greedy to get one up on the other, to show them that they aren’t perfect either.  You want to show them that you are keeping score of their faults too!

Ask Me, Ask Me – “Lord do you keep score of my faults?’

Why would I?

Does Love keep score of faults?  No.

Love just Loves the entire you --- that includes your virtues and vices.

Love is not Love when it is eager to take note of others faults.

When you keep track of others faults, you really are trying to show how really good you are.

When you mention one of their faults to Me, do you also humbly tell Me your faults?

Usually we want to find fault in others so we will look good, better than them.

It is just like buying a new sink.  You compare several and note the faults of each and then take the one with less faults.

You see we judge to Love by a person’s faults.  If they seem to have lots, we do not Love them as much.

Do not shake your head “Not me Lord.”

So today take on this joyful task of just Loving, not saying to yourself “well this is a fault I notice, but I will still Love them.”

Just Love them because that is all I have asked you to do.  Right?  Not Love them in spite of this or that, but just Love them.

Ask Me.  I repeat ask Me to let you Love them with no conditions attached.

Now go in peace.  That is go having banished all retaliation from your soul.  Do not even retaliate in your mind, because it can quickly slip from your tongue.

Tell Me “Lord, I am not greedy to retaliate.”  Keep me far from this harmful sin.