the Grace of Contentment

#304  Thurs. Sept. 25/14, 10am, St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament

 I Love My People.

Do not let that thought slip from anyone’s mind.

“Jesus Loves me.”

I cannot say it enough because circumstances arise that send us right back to doubt.

Do not doubt My Words to you.  They are very plain and simple and full of the Fullness of truth.

You have come today to Me upset or bothered?

Perhaps you don’t even think you are upset or bothered.  Yet I know and plumb the depths of your heart.

Tell Me about your day so far.  For some of you reading this you may not have been awake many hours, but still tell Me your day so far.  For others you might be reading these Words of Mine at mid-day, or at the end of the day.  Now, I ask you to take time and share your day with Me.  What were the highs and lows?  What upset you or perhaps who upset you?

What I want you to note is that they may not have done anything to upset you, yet you are upset from having seen them, spoken to them, imagined something about them. 

Do you see how we can bring on our own upset?  We do not have to wait for someone to upset us by their words and actions, we can conjure something in our minds that we allow to upset us.

I don’t want you always blaming others for your upsets.  Really I never want you blaming anyone.

When we get upset or angry it is usually because we perceive someone has hurt us or made fun of us or even more, that you are jealous of that person.

They do not necessarily have had to do anything to you, but your ego embellishes a hurt that you perceive.

How have they offended you?  Let’s make a list.

Did they call you a name?  And why do you think they felt like that?  And what have I asked you to do in regards to being offended --- to strike back?, retaliate?, get angry inside?, or to forgive?

Did their presence make you jealous?  What do they have that you feel you would like equally as well?  Are you not content with what I am portioning out to you?  So perhaps you aren’t as jealous of them as you are cross with Me for not blessing you with the same opportunity.

Did they get a promotion and you didn’t?  Did they appear happy and you wonder what has made them so happy while you don’t feel that happy?

Are you jealous that people seem to like them better than you?  What are you striving for here?  The admiration of other human beings or My Eternal Constant Love.

So you are not content with the Love I am pouring over you this day?

If you were, there would be no pride, jealousy, eagerness to be admired by others, eagerness to move up in the world.

Are  you not content with the role I have asked you personally to play in the day, on this day Sept. 25/14?

Not only ask Me to strengthen your soul, but to make your soul o so content with what I have placed in your day for your good and My Glory.

Do you feel you can glorify Me more by doing and being someone else?  And fulfilling the purpose I have for them?

Ahhh and whose purpose will you pick?  Not the purpose of the cloistered nun who will be seen by no one as she prays.  But perhaps  the purpose of the person who will be hailed and recognized by others for some accomplishment?

How revealing our thoughts can be when you sit with Me and allow Me to explain them in My Light to you who aren’t always living and walking in the Light.

Do you see the battle between you and Me?  You wanting, craving, needing something that you feel will make you feel good and Me allotting you what I know you need for today.  Really, for just this moment.

Tell Me now that you are content with this moment, with this day as I reveal it to you.

Ache for nothing more in the material world but truly ache for more of the Eternal World and thus more of Me in your life.

Realize that when you do not feel content, that you only really need more of Me.  It is a great easy sign.

So, pride shows you are not content.

Jealousy shows you are not content.

Anger shows you are not content --- not content with Me in your life.  That is, you have not asked Me for the Grace of Contentment.

You do not connect your feelings with being discontent with Me and My Plans for your life.

Yet, my dear, that is what your feelings are accurately revealing to you --- that you are not content with My purpose for your life.

Beg, ache for the Graces to be Content.  You need these in abundance if you wish to be happy and not discontent and thus disconnected from Me in our relationship.

 How can our relationship grow if you are discontent?

Impossible!

Because when you are discontent you are more connected to you with what you want for you, rather than connected to Me and what I want for you. 

Let your sins reveal to you that each one shows you that you are not content with your God.

Thank Me for revealing this to you today and be sure to ask for many, many Content Graces which I will pour over a humble, contrite heart.

Go in Peace.  I Love you.  I will always Love you.  I am not discontent with you at all.  I am always content to call you My Beloved.

Through God's Eyes

#303  Tues. Sept. 23/14, 4:15am, at home

I have come to speak to My People.

Be ready to hear Me when I speak.

I am here with you now.  Really, I am here with you always, but now I want your senses to be more aware of Me and My Words for you.

Harden not your hearts.

That phrase does not always mean that you have turned from Me, but sometimes you are not turned towards Me waiting to hear My Voice.

Sometimes we are so busy doing what we want to do or think needs doing that we have failed to keep our hearts tender and open to My Words.

Sometimes our heads have been allowed to take charge over our hearts and we get busy doing good things yet perhaps not God Things.

Margo, when you awoke you started to go over things from last evening.

There was nothing wrong with what was said and done at the group session, but now I ask you, “what is the point of reviewing it in your head?”

When you are going over what was said by you and others, you are not completely in My Presence.

I want you to give all of you to Me.

So reviewing last evening allows the devious one to sneak in with the ‘what if I had said that?’, ‘should I have let her speak longer?’, ‘how good was that answer?’, or ‘wasn’t that a really good response!’

You see, when we go back into the past, you are not in the present with Me.

You either review the past to cast a negative or positive look at it.

You think, I could have said that better, or I think I said that very well didn’t I.

In one case we call ourselves down, and in the other we puff ourselves up.

I want you not only to see this in others, but more importantly to see it in yourself.

When you do reflect on the past are you willing to look at it through God’s Eyes?   Will you sit with Him and review it, or will you just wander there alone.

Remember, He will see it with Love.  Not selfish love but selfless Love. 

When you see it on your own, what love is there?

Love of self and your wisdom = pride.

OR
Lack of love of self = condemnation.

We run ourselves down with the would haves and could haves and what ifs.  Yes we do.

And that is not loving ourselves is it.

If you want to review something, take Me with you.

Imagine Me sitting next to you as you review the situation.

Will you praise yourself for the wise response, or will you turn to Me and thank Me for the words of wisdom I gave you?   But sometimes we don’t want to do that because it will not feed our ego!  Yikes.

On the other hand will you turn to Me and tell Me that I should have told you ‘this and that’ to say but instead I didn’t  --- would you say that to Me face to face?

You say you wouldn’t, but you maybe unknowingly do when you retreat to using the would haves and could haves and what ifs.

You are belittling My Presence in your life.  Seems like harsh words, but I want you to see you in My Presence.

You might be inclined to say to Me that you should have said this or that.

But I will ask you “who is in charge of Project Rachel?”  “Who is in charge of ALL?”

Does it sound like content/discontent again as we have talked about before?   Oh yes it does.

You brought My Spirit into the room last evening.  So what was said was all that needed saying;  what was said was My Words, My Wisdom, not yours.

So, if your head takes you back to review certain situations, let your heart with My Heart in tow jump in and simply offer Me thanks and praise for all that took place.

So, when you are thanking and praising Me, you will not beat yourself up for what should have or could have been said, and you will not puff up your pride with a tempting dish of how wise you are.

It makes Me, your God, the center of it ALL.  Let Me BE that for you and by so doing you are released from worry, angst and deteriorating pride.

Neither are good for your soul’s health.

So, whenever you slip into either the negative or positive review of your words, your actions  ---- stop.

Run with your soul and the souls of others and hide in My Sacred Heart from those things that will destroy your soul.

You are not running away from life, but you are running to the source of ALL Life.

Come to Me all who are heavy burdened. And these pride and doubt are heavy burdens.

Bring them into My Most Sacred Heart to be burned up in the Fire of My Love.

So just be aware that whenever you go back in your head to review a situation, take Me with you.  I will erase all doubt and all pride, so you will not stay in the past too long!!  Because I will not let you feed off the food --- doubt and pride --- that the devil always offers.

I offer you with Me NOW.

Praise and thank Me for this marvelous insight.

God Bless you My People.  Thank you for allowing Me in your life.  I mean that.  You have the free will to welcome Me or keep Me at a distance, so I just want to thank you for welcoming Me into your life.

You are Mine, I so want to be yours.  Jesus loves me.  I am God’s beloved.  Come dwell in my heart Lord.  

 

You, completely

#302  Saturday, Sept. 20/14, 4pm, St. Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament.

I delight in speaking to My People.

 

I want them to hear how I proclaim them as My Beloved to the Father.

No one should ever think that they, he or she, is not My Beloved.  If you think that and say that, then, you do not know Me.

“Jesus Loves me.”  “I am God’s Beloved.”

I want you to proclaim these words to yourself daily, many times a day.

Let them ring through your body and soul.  Do you know how much I Love you?   You never will because it is immeasurable, so in a human sense you can’t measure My Love.

I don’t want you to spend time trying to measure My Love.  That is a waste of your time.

What I want of you is to be willing and ready to proclaim to your body and soul that “Jesus Loves me.” “I am God’s Beloved.”

Those words are so strong, so, so Truth-filled that you can’t avoid being filled up with them.

The body, the soul aches for this unifying Love.

I want your body and soul connected in this unifying Love.

You can’t say “o God loves my soul, but I am not so sure about my body, or vice versa.”

He wants you whole and complete, not broken into parts.

He Created your body and soul.  It is for us to realize that He Loves this unified human being.

Otherwise, if He just Loved the soul, He would not assist the body when in need, and vice versa.

But He does not break us down into parts --- body and soul.  He sees us as ‘one’ who needs His Constant  Love to exist, survive, grow and love.

Ask Me to let you see ‘you’ as completely as I see you, through My Eyes, with My Love and Mercy and Forgiveness.

Look over My Shoulder and get a better sight of who you are in My Eyes.

I want the ALL of you healed, nurtured, nourished, Loved, Loved, Loved.

So you can peek over My Shoulder and see how I Love each and every person in the World.  What a viewpoint!

You will not see My Love wane one iota no matter what the person has done, is doing, will do.

My Love cascades all around them seeking a resting place in their heart.

Can I please find a resting place in your heart?

Will you daily admit “Jesus Loves me.”  “I am God’s Beloved.”  “Come Lord abide in my heart.”

It is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit!  Invite Us in.  We will willingly dwell in your heart.

 

Who are you following?

#301  Thursday, Sept. 18/14,  9:45am, St.Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

 I have come Lord to do Your Will.

 Anyone of us can say this.  It is a sentiment that will reach My Ears and show how you intend to walk with Me this day.

Do no harm.  Do not try to fix anyone or anything.  Remember to first come to Me and ask Me to remove the log from your eye.

We get caught up thinking we have the answer for a lot of people’s lives/struggles.  We think they should do this or that and all would be better.

Be aware of false prophets.  You will soon be convinced that you have the answer to all the world’s problems --- far, far from it.  Yet the devil will let you think that you have and that your ideas will set the world all right.

You shake your head NO, but I know what is in your heart.

Why would you think you have the solution to anything?  Anything that you may have done to better the World has come from Me first and foremost.

Why would you think that you have to fix things?   Aaah, you guessed it.  Because then you do not have to look at yourself and see what needs fixing, because you are quite convinced that there is little in you that needs fixing.

And again you say NO Lord, I know I need fixing.  Then be about doing that job first and foremost.

Do not let Me see you trying to improve someone else’s life before you give Me your life and beg Me to help you get it right.

Sure I have told you to help others, but not as the ruler and knower-of-all, but more as a compassionate friend who is willing to walk with and pray with them.  So together you can ask Me to help you both make good decisions.

In our eagerness to help fix others, we almost deliberately want to avoid looking inward to see what kind of house we have made for the Lord to come and dwell in.

Harden not your heart.  Because when you look outward with the plan to fix things, you have certainly hardened your heart which is eager to hear My Words for your wounded heart.

Yes, yes indeed.  Your heart is wounded.  Will you dare admit that to Me right now?

We think we are relatively aok.  We pray, we smile at others and greet others.  We don’t swear.

But those may be things you do because you want to.

Have you asked Me what I want you to do above and beyond your choices?

Oooh  ---  this may call for sacrifice?  You may have to sacrifice your plans for being pious, and seek Me and My Plans not for piety but for service to Me in My Name and for the good of My Creation.

We get into a routine.  I will say such and such so that folks will know where I stand when it comes to God.

But if my stand and my opinion have not changed in years, how does that demonstrate that I am growing closer and closer to the Lord?

You know from having read the pages to date how much you are seeing differently because you are seeing through My Eyes, not yours.

If you do not grow, then you are in a rut.  Either you are content to stay where you are because it seems a safe place and space, or you would rather not hear more from Me because then you may have to change and you don’t feel you need to because you are pretty good as you are right now.

Really, you are either walking with Me as your leader and guide or you are walking with you as your own counsellor.  It is as simple as that.

If you are not willing to grow with My Words and My Love instructing you, then how do you call yourself Christian?

As Christ, I grew into My Role.

If you are not willing to give up all that you have made up that supposedly shows you as a Christian and willingly toss it aside and come to me daily to be re-christianed, then who are you following?

Daily you need a new heart, filled with My Divine Love by Me and focused on serving only Me.

This sounds demanding I know, but do you wish to be My Follower or not?  If you say yes, then I invite you to invite Me daily into your new heart and give Me free rein to BE ALL according to the Love that I know this World needs.

You do not have the over-all picture. I do.

Let Me reign in your heart and free Me to reign in the hearts of others.

God Bless you this day. Jesus Loves me.  Jesus wants me happy with Him in Heaven.  Let go, and let Me in your heart.     

NOW time

#300  Sept. 13, 2014    12:30am, at home  (Quiet NOW Time)

 

Sit with Me awhile.

Let us just sit silently together.  You not explaining anything and Me not explaining anything.

Let us just sit in the wonder of each other.  In Love with each other.  Making no excuses or promises.

Allowing the NOW to surround us and take us in and nourish us.

We are neither thinking of the past nor the future.  We are not even thinking of the NOW.  We are just in the NOW.

Just breathe gently and think of nothing.  Know, that is just you and I together.

It is a marvelous quiet time when you do not need to ask questions or do not need to answer.  We are most content just to be together.

Don’t you wish we could capture these moments more often?

We can, you know, but a lot of it depends on you.

You are in control!

I have made you this offer to come aside and sit with Me, asking for nothing, expecting nothing.

You see, I will be very quiet sitting with you.  I am able to BE in the NOW quite easily.

It is you who struggle with the silence of your mind.

Yet, if you can just capture the NOW with Me for even only a second, you have made a good start.

If you ask Me, I can help you be still and not think about anything, not even concentrating on being with Me.

Make it a prayer intent to spend quiet NOW time with Me and I will know your sincerity and offer it to you.

So start to come aside and sit with Me, not asking, praying, answering, questioning, reporting joyful moments.

Nothing on your mind, but come with the intent of sitting with Me and just sharing a silent NOW moment with Me. Night God Bless, sleep with Me with you.