REVIEW -- #137 -- May 17, 2013

 #137 May 17, 2013,  Friday, 11am, St Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

My Holy People.  Stop and stay with Me awhile.

I welcome your company and encourage you to sit with the Maker of All and just relish in My Presence.

Do not be stubborn and think you don’t have time for this.  I have given you each moment, so do not tell Me you are in charge of time.  Only I Am.

Sit gently and see how time can pass most fruitfully in My Presence.

You will find that you have to do nothing in My Presence.  No chores, no errands, no talking, no busy-ness.

We can keep ourselves busy doing very good things.  And I appreciate all of these.

Yet I ask you what do you think is the greatest gift you can offer to Me?  YOU.

Not ‘busy you’ or ‘doing good deeds you’ but just you with Me.  Doing nothing, just being together.

We are all rather good at showing our love of neighbor, however we fall short on the First Greatest Commandment – Love your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your strength.

Will you come aside and sit with Me and give Me ‘all your heart’?

Will you come aside and sit with Me and give Me ‘all your mind’?

Will you come aside and sit with Me and give Me ‘all your strength’?

I want you here before Me with NO distractions.  That is True Love.  When nothing else gets in the way of the 2 of us Loving one another and knowing the Love of the other.

You are willing to serve others.  Are you willing to serve Me?

If I call and say I need help will you come and visit Me and ask what I need help with?

You know what I need help with – getting into your heart.

You may do great good things, but I want you to do Great God things.

Even someone who does not know Me can do good things.

Knowing Me though takes you to a new level.  The Good things you do, you do in My Name.

But the ‘knowing ME’ cannot, must not stop there.

To truly do things in My Name you have to spend time with the One whose Name you do it in. 

It is like hockey.  I can play on a team and do good things with the team, but if I do not spend time outside of hockey with them --  all we are is a hockey team.  Not individuals who though willing to play on a team, do not get to know each other on the team.

There is the spirit in each other that we have to find and meet and know and respect.

So come aside and meet The Spirit that abides in each person.  

It just isn’t their smile or their pleasant personality, it is a far deeper part of them that only I the Giver of this deeper part can bring to your attention.

Many of us put into action what we feel our faith calls us to.  

However, we don’t first get in touch with the Origin of our Faith to make sure we are just not too comfortable doing what we think needs doing.

What are you ‘doing’ that keeps you from being entirely, solely in My Presence.

Ask yourself:  “I don’t mind spending hours volunteering, etc, yet am I willing to spend an hour volunteering to keep Me company?”

Again I appreciate all the good so many of you are doing.  Yet when I ask you for an hour of your time with Me, it almost seems like you feel it is not good enough to do.

Who will measure it?   Who are you helping?  

How can I stop ‘doing’ a good thing out in the community to come aside and pass the time with God?  There is so much to be done that I can’t possibly give over an hour to spend with the Lord in silent adoration.

Ask yourself:  “Why do I allow this barrier between You, God, and me?”

Am I afraid that You will take me to places I don’t want to go?  

Like into the middle of Your Most Sacred Heart where all will be revealed to me and I may find that I am not doing Your Will but mine.

You can’t truly love your neighbor if first and foremost you don’t Love Me.

How do you show your neighbor you love them?  --  by doing things for them when you know they need it or ask for it.

So now I will ask you – “Are you willing to treat Me as your neighbor and help Me when I ask you to come aside and sit with Me and let Me speak of My Love for you?”

Do you believe in My Real Presence in the Tabernacle, in the Sacred Host?  Then if you say you do, then you will be so inclined to come aside and spend time with Me – the Eternal Person in your life.  

Do not abandon Me for the other charitable works you are doing.  

It is your God first and foremost whom you are asked to serve.  

And the greatest service you can do is to come aside and sit with Me and listen to Me talk about how I Love you and how I want your heart to truly love.

You may love to serve others, yet I want you to learn to forgive others.  And you can only do that through My Instruction.

Come aside and let Me Love you into a whole different level of service.

Thank you for coming.  I Love you, go in peace to serve Me more fully.

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