I am your SOLID GROUND

#412  Thurs. Aug. 20/15, 9:50am, St. Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

My God, My God why have You forsaken me?

I hear this from many, many of My People.  Do you want to hear the answer?

Perhaps not, because some will just continue to wail without seeking My Answer.

I come to bring you Peace and Joy.

You will not have either if you do not listen to My Most Gracious Words.

We can go on and on bewailing our situation, not able to do anything about it.

Or, we can rush to My Most Sacred Heart and there sit and be still and wait for My Love to pour over you and the situation, to make better sense of it all.

Do not try to figure out how you can go from bewailing your misfortune to finding peace in My Response in My Presence within you.

I am solid ground for you to stand on.  When all else is topsy turvy I am the solid ground you need to escape to.

You can stay mired in your loneliness and grief, or you can come to be with The One who sustains you through thick and thin.

I want to be your solid ground. 

I want to be the place where you retreat to.

I want you to know before the situation gets too desperate for you to handle that I AM THE ONE.

Your heart cannot live healthy at all in misery.  Come let Me make the crooked paths straight for you. 

Do you think I want you carrying this burden for long and all by yourself?

No, of course not.

I want you to know the Physician that waits to heal you.

I want you to know the Companion that will listen to your story time and time again.

I want you to know the Fixer of ALL.

Do not shy away from coming to Me.  Really, you have nothing to lose do you?

You have called on Me because you feel I have abandoned you.  Now call on Me because I want you to know My Healing Power. 

We call out to God when we feel all is lost.  Now call out to Me and ask Me to help you find that which is lost.

It really is not the loved one that may have died.  That certainly triggers your feelings of enormous loss, but truly that is not the basis for feeling lost.               

The sudden loss of a loved one sets us on a downhill spiral of hopelessness.  Why them – so young, so much potential, so loved?

But you see we have placed all our hope and future in this person (or persons) so how can life go on without them?

First, may I say you will never be without them (physically, yes) but the LOVE that they brought into your life DOES NOT DIE.  Rest assured of that.

But, this love you shared and can continue to share originated in Me and from Me to you and them. 

So the hope you placed in your loved one was it originally placed in Me first?

What I mean is that ALL Creation comes and goes --- those people, places and things we love are not limitless.  They are finite and will come to an end.

But Me and My Love are infinite and never stop --- are always pouring forth our Graces over you.

Surely you will feel sad and despondent at the news of a loved one’s sudden passing.  That is natural because of the human love you shared.

But I assure you this love does not die if it is based on the Love I poured into your hearts one for the other.

In some cases you will hear that person’s heart feels empty now the loved one is gone.  But then I ask you, what was it filled with before?

Because if it was filled with a God based Love, this Love does not die, it does not vacate the heart.

So our hope is lost, is gone if we placed all our hope in that person.

So, please first and foremost place ALL your hope in Me.  I do not die, or leave you, or abandon you.

Then allow Me to Grace your heart to Love others as I do, not placing all your hope in them but loving them as I have asked you to do.

Have you lost the hope of ever seeing them again?

Have you lost the hope of being able to still communicate with them through prayer?

Have you lost the hope of seeing them graduate, get married, have children of their own?

Yet, what was the guarantee that came with their birth?

They were a Loving Gift to you to love and cherish. 

Yet as humans we perceive that a new baby means new life and all that goes with life.

Yet death also goes with life doesn’t it.

Not that you should dwell on that aspect but it is Truth and Reality.

You cannot prepare yourself for the shock of a sudden death.  But you can prepare your heart to deal with this when it comes. 

Place all your hope and trust in Me.  Do not place it in any other person but Me.

Start daily with the prayer “Jesus, I trust in You.”

This is like preventative medicine so that when death strikes, your heart will be healthy enough to face it – with sadness and sorrow yes, but not with despondency and hopelessness.

Build a good foundation in your heart that will stand the storms of life.

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God Bless, I Love you.  Take nothing with you today, but just Trust in the Lord.