"Special Together" Graces

#415   Sept. 1/15, 10:50am, St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament

My People come before Me. Bow low and give Me all your attention.

Do you see how I ask you to bow low?  I do not want you distracted by other things around you.

I want your full attention.  I beg you to give Me your full attention.  My Words will break open hearts that are hardened.  I want your heart safe within My Most Sacred Heart.

Ask nothing.  Presume nothing.  Just BE.  BE ever so gentle in My Presence.

Come to think of it, when you are in My Presence, all else that is vexing you falls away.  But to have that happen you have to BE, the ALL of you, has to be in My Presence.

Bring your cares, concerns and worries before Me right now.  Lay them all down.  You can do it in bulk or you can lay each down individually. 

Ok, have you done that?  Now just BE in My Presence.  Do you feel the Peace emanating from Me to you?

Do not listen for a pin to drop or for traffic noises.  Listen to the 2 of us in harmony – one in the presence of the other. 

Of course these noises will intrude in our solitude, but just call yourself back to BEING with Me.

Stifle your need to check the clock, to fold or unfold your arms.  Try to remain as motionless as possible other than your breathing.

Tell Me you want to be quietly and humbly in My Presence and I will gladly assist you to do this.  Do not try it on your own, because this ‘special together’ requires Graces I am so willing to give you.

Stop planning and ask to be together with Me.

BE with Me right now. Yes, stop reading this, ask for My ‘special together’ Graces and then BE still.  Let Me do the rest.  A small miracle because so often we are so busy and preoccupied that we fail to hear Me calling you aside.

Listen carefully for My Voice and act on it.  BE still, BE present with Me. 

a New Language

#414   Sunday, Aug. 30/15, 11:15pm, at home  

We do not always watch the words we use.

Do we speak to give a kind word, a word of correction, a word of objection, a word that is uncomplimentary?

How often when you go to speak do we ask the Lord to guard our tongues?

It is so important that we use our words wisely.  Have you noticed when pride sneaks in we sometimes want to talk more about ourselves, than to listen to the other?

Why do we feel we have to tell all?  Are we in a competition?  Do we feel he who has the last story wins?

But I ask you to talk less.  You know what I mean.  You all should know what I mean.

Say less mean words.

Say less uncomplimentary words.

Say nothing and just let the world be ok around you.

Why the needless chatter?   Because usually when we get caught in needless chatter we get led into sin.

Just be aware I ask you.  Needless chatter may cause you to say something foolish or mean about another that you tell yourself is just said in jest.

When I ask you not to say something or make a comment that is not really necessary, I am not trying to keep you from sin necessarily but rather I want you to realize that it is important to listen to Me guarding and guiding you, rather than you talking.

It is a case of obedience, yes.  It is also a case of humility.  You are humble enough to realize that what you were about to say would not enlighten the World.

The more you hold your tongue, the more time you have to be silent with Me.

The more you are obedient when I suggest --- “you don’t have to mention that”,  or “you don’t have to tell someone about someone else.”

It does work and you know it Margo, and all those of you who read this.

We sometimes are not obedient to Me when I ask you to cleave your tongue to the roof of your mouth.

Not that what you are about to say is a sin --- no, no, no.  But might it lead to sin, and yes possibly.

You have asked Me to lead you, so I want to lead you farther away from the unnecessary and closer to the Necessary. 

Why do you think I have asked you to be silent and not to say such and such?

Because I know that it is not necessary if you are trying with Me to build-up the World.

There is so much that can be left unsaid and I encourage you to seek Me and ask Me to help you with this.

Do not even look on it as a punishment but rather a refining of your language skills.

It is like learning a new language!

Only this language wants you to use less words, and still speak with kindness and consideration. 

A whole new prayer life

#413  Sun. Aug. 23/15, 8:10pm, at home  (in bedside book)

I have things to share so put aside your computer and listen to My Voice.

It does not come like a thunderbolt.  Really it does not make even a whisper, yet it speaks to you and you know it when you hear it.

Let My People go.  Let them advance towards Me each and every day.  Do not restrict their search for Me.  What I mean is do not throw any of your thoughts in there to direct them, unless they are My Thoughts and I have instructed you to share them.

Let there never be any boast on your lips, other than God is God in ALL and through ALL.

Boast about Me all you want, but do not let any boasting fall on you and your deeds.

I do not say “do not be gracious”, all I say is always point to Me.  Thank them for believing in My Loving Words and Presence in their life.

Do not hinder them coming to Me.  Stay the course I have cut out for you.  It is not one of admiration but one of admission.

Admit to your heart and their heart that I AM ALL to all and want so much for them to see this.

Let My Shadow fall on many.  Do not let a day pass that you and you and you do not cast My Shadow on many.

It takes a whole new prayer life to do this.  You do not pray for the person as much as you take their soul and bring it into My Sacred Heart.

Yes, I have encouraged you to ask “what can I pray for you today?”, because they may not understand the soul and soul prayer.

So this makes it easier for you to pray for them and their special intention.

You take your soul and their soul with the special intention attached into My Most Sacred Heart. 

There all will be refreshed, all will be renewed.

Now I do not want you to belittle this soul and soul prayer.  You are wondering why I am saying this.

Well, I just want you to know that it is so first and foremost what I want you to do when asking others what you can pray for them today, that you might think all you need to do is just say some prayers with good intention for their intention.

But Halt right there. Because you have now gone back to your formula for intercessory prayer!   You do not think that all the time you need to use the soul and soul prayer? But I am asking you to, telling you to, for the Richer Graces this will bring to your soul and their soul and their special intention.

Once you are gathered in My Sacred Heart ‘soul and soul’ you can spend as much time as you want in prayer.

So instead of just jumping right into a “Hail Mary” prayer, first get your soul and their soul hastily into My Sacred Heart and then say the “Hail Mary” or whatever prayer you feel appropriate.

Once again, it is deepening our prayer time with Me and for you.  It is making our memorized prayers much more effective.  It is even making our made-up prayers more effective. 

Raise your prayer life to a new level.

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.

My Words ring True

#411  Tues. Aug. 18/15, 10am.  St. Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

Do not stray far from My Words.

Nourish your soul daily with them.

They do not add a weight or burden to your soul, but rather lift it up and strengthen it.

You may not be able to explain all My Words to their depth, yet each has depth and will reach into the depth of you and nourish you.

You do not understand the depth of Graces in just reading My Words.

The Giver has such a depth that I want to impart to My People.

So, it does not matter if all I say makes perfect sense to your soul.  But rather cherish the Words because they come from the Source of Sense.

We may not need that particular insight, yet others may.

My Words ring True no matter how much you can gather from them.

You see, as we read, we are busy trying to make sense of the Words, instead of just reading them because I have said them.

So if it does not make sense, do you toss it aside thinking it really does not apply to you?

Yet, as I have said, each Word I speak has profound worth for your soul.

Allow your soul and not your head to bathe in these Words of Mine.

These Words will only strengthen your soul which has a spiritual connection to Me whether your brain wants to figure things out according to you, rather than just read and accept them because they come from Me. 

Do not let your soul abandon these readings because your head just can’t seem to figure them out to its satisfaction.

Remember to let your soul lead you in making sense of My Words.

When we start to read My Words, take a moment and give permission to your soul to be open to these Words.   Even though they come in through your eyes and brain they are meant for your soul.

So give Me permission to open your soul to the Worth of My Words.

“Lord reach my soul.”

Lord reach into my soul and nourish it.  Thank you Lord for helping me with this sometimes dilemma --- if I don’t understand it, then why am I reading it.

You now know that it is your soul that I am wanting to feed with these Words so ask Me to let your soul be attentive to each Word.

Now pick up your bible or the daily readings and start with “Lord reach my soul with Your Words.”