REVIEW -- #219

 #219 Tuesday, Dec. 31/13, 9:30am. St. Theresa’s chapel, (No Eucharistic Adoration today yet the Lord is still truly present.)

Dear Margo, thank you for coming aside with Me to contemplate and adore.

How do we become disconnected from our Creator, Saviour, and Helper?  We have begot you, saved your soul, and provide all sorts of guidance, yet you still step aside from us and branch out on your own.

Can you see Our Puzzled Faces?  Pondering how Our very own Creatures can move so far away from their Creator and Sustainer?

We do not want you leading lives that are puzzling and confusing.

Yet out there on your own you can solve nothing.  

What you may think is your brain wave is only Our Presence in your life.  The fact that you do not acknowledge it indicates the separation between the 2 of us.

You may have a great idea and carry it out – yet you realize that it was not your idea but came to you from God Himself and thus you thank Him profusely for leading you to this discovery.  This union is whole.

On the other hand, you can have a great idea, bring it to fulfillment and then pat yourself on the back affording no thanks and praise to your Creator for instilling this idea in you in the first place.  So, here our union is not whole.  There appears to be very little union at all.

When we have a great idea do we understand firstly that God created each brain cell personally and instilled each one in you thus allowing you to make plans, suggest ideas, instruct, etc. 

So you did not create your own brain cells.  Can we acknowledge this?  Do we acknowledge this?

Thus ‘your idea’ really is not yours because the very cells that created this idea are not yours but instilled in you by your Creator.

It is really getting down to basics with God and realizing that ALL is His.  ALL could not be possible without Him.

Each thought, prayer, conversation, etc. could not happen unless He had Created it so.

“Be still and know that I am God.”

You see we are not still enough each day to acknowledge that each breath, heartbeat, perspiration, each chuckle, swallow, is from God, is of God.

If we aren’t still we cannot take time to acknowledge to Him that ALL of me is His.

I am but a Creation of His Love.  I could not, and have not created any of me.  So I cannot take credit for anything that comes from me.  It is ALL God’s.

It is a simple prayer that can slip from our lips many times a day --- just “thank you God.”

Don’t limit this simple prayer to good times.  Use it constantly.  When there is a pain start to just say “Thank you God.”

This takes a bit of getting used to because show Me the person who is thankful for pain.  But it is not the pain you are thanking Me for.  It is just Me you are thanking.

In good times and bad times just utter “thank you Lord.”

You are thanking Me for My Constant Presence in your life --- that is what the thanks really means.

It is not a ‘thank you Lord for this good time.”  It is just ‘thank you Lord.”  Otherwise your gratitude is limited to only the good times in your life.

“I am with you always.”

So your short but full prayer is always “thank you Lord.”

You can list off the things you are thankful for if you want to, yet this simple prayer covers them all doesn’t it.

For what if you forget or left some out of the thank you list?  Then you would always be chastising yourself for not getting it perfect or complete.

The complete prayer to have on your lips at ALL times is “thank you Lord.”  

He, above all else, knows what you may be applying it to.  And yet He knows it is directed to Him because He has Created ALL and responsible for ALL and Loving ALL.

Your “thank you Lord” prayer covers ALL.

It acknowledges to your heart that ALL is Mine and that your gratitude starts with the One who Created ALL.

You see how personal this prayer is?  You are not breaking down My Creation and thanking Me for each part.

You are thanking the Creator --- period.

You can’t fathom My Creation. 

You can’t thank Me for each part because that is beyond your comprehension.  

Yet you can just thank the Creator of ALL.  

Thank the Creator.

You are making your way through all the stuff I have created and coming directly to the Creator and saying “thank you Lord.”

We are face to face in this prayer!

When you thank Me for the sunset, you are gazing at the sunset, or for the majestic mountains you are gazing at them.

I want you to gaze at Me, into My Face and say “thank you Lord”.  Let none of My Creation distract you from our face to face prayer. 

Because ALL else will pass away!

So now just sit and adore and thank Me.