Debris

#584  Thurs. Sept. 22/16,  3:40pm,  St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament

(Debris)

Sift carefully thru the debris in your heart, but do not do it alone.  Bring Me along with you so that you do not add extra debris when you come across something that is upsetting.

Let Me look at your life with you.  Show Me some of the highlights that delighted you  -- seeing a frog leap, noticing the details of a spider’s web, hearing sirens, hearing comments that were pleasant.

You can take these and other things that delighted you and see that there are buried around you and amidst them other things that did not delight you. 

What do you have to do when you find this debris?  Hand it to Me.  You do not have to explain it to Me, but if you want to you can.

Do you want to give it over to Me or do you want to hold onto it so you can use it again in the future to further demoralize yourself, or run someone else down, or continue to practice unforgiveness?

This debris will NEVER strengthen your character, nor will it make you more peaceful, a more complete human being.  It will NEVER get back at the other who heaped the debris in your soul.  It will NEVER lighten your load on this road to Eternal Glory.

Look at the debris and ask yourself, in My Presence, “what do I want to keep this for?”

--- does it give you consolation to hold onto this debris?

--- does it make you a more upright person to hold onto this debris?

--- does it free you from anger and judgment to hold onto this debris?

--- does it lighten your load  --  make you more happy, content, satisfied, gentle, kind, forgiving when you hold onto this debris?

Ask yourself “what do I want my life to BE like?”

Do I want to BE living in and walking in the Lord?  Then the debris has to go!

OR

Do I want to BE in control of my life, not taking direction from the Lord, thus holding the debris close at hand just in case you can use it on someone else?

But, you see, when you do not chuck all the debris in your life, you are not in control of your life.  The evil one has moved in and keeps you well supplied with weapons of destruction, not of peace-making.

There is no third way – you either walk with Me or you walk with the evil one.

Yes, sometimes we all slip, and walk with the Lord and then other times turn to the evil one.

But, as long as our focus, and intent, and desire is to walk with the Lord, the less we will answer the temptations of the evil one, the less debris we allow to grow in our souls.

I have told you that if you are heavy burdened you are to come to Me.  Never has the evil one offered such a portal of hope.

So, I, the Lord, know that your soul can easily get overburdened and that is why I am always inviting you to come and bring Me your burdens.

I know, and so do you, that your soul does not survive well with many burdens.  True?

So, drop them off to Me.  Intentionally drop them off to Me and in the same breath, ask Me to fill you with More of Me, so the burdens do not return and beat you down again.