#7 June10/12 -- before the Blessed Sacrament at St. Theresa’s – Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. (Focus on My Love)
It is not your sins that should weigh you down, but My Suffering that should lift you up, encourage you, strengthen you.
Eliminate all thoughts of your undeserved-ness and inequality, but rather frame your very thoughts again on Me and My Sufferings and not on you, you, you.
To grasp the fact that Love does not flow from your sins but from My Sufferings.
I call you aside to realize that loving Me means to stop and know My Sufferings – not the details so much as the act of suffering itself.
It does not depend on your interpretation of My Sufferings but on the fact that you see that Love can only blossom through suffering.
How else could I show you how much I have Loved you?
Don’t hesitate to stop and ponder My Love. Don’t hesitate to realize that Love and Suffering go hand in hand.
But it has to be selfless love that endures -- selfless suffering. It does not depend on your sins, it depends on My Love, My Overflowing Love.
I don’t Love you because you are sinners. I Love you even though you are sinners.
My Love finds no barriers. No matter even if you turn totally away from Me, I still Love you like I would the greatest saint.
Where My Love lives, so lives My Suffering. If I did not suffer I could not Love unconditionally.
Beckon others to Me, to My Love. Let them know that it is not their sin that disturbs Me, but that I Love beyond sin, beyond their poor decisions, beyond what they feel are unboundless sins.
How could I do otherwise?
Do you not think that My Love on the Cross far outweighed My Suffering?
It was not how much I suffered for your salvation but how much I Loved you and wanted you saved.
DO NOT FOCUS ON YOUR SINS – that is futile, prideful, unloving.
FOCUS ON MY LOVE not even on My Sufferings so much but on My Love.
We get so caught up in the negative that we refuse to raise our eyes to receive My Love.
I will tell you what the greatest sin is. It is: not to be willing to receive My Love –nothing else is important. All other ‘sins’ pale in comparison.
And I am not even calling this a sin. What I am trying to convey is the fact that all else is futile, is for not, is unimportant to your soul – the grace that flows from My Love can overcome ALL obstacles.
Sure there are times when you turn from Me and My Will and sin. However the emphasis we have placed on sin has dimmed the light of My Love.
Just because you don’t sin, does not mean you know My Love!
Any energy and time spent in not doing evil is time wasted!
When you take time to sit in My Love, to contemplate My Face, to immerse yourself in My Will, to imbed your being with Mine, that is time well spent.
You can do this anytime so it does not mean abandoning your chores, but abandoning yourself in Me while you do your chores.
This requires a focus that you have, but which you have been misplacing. You have focused on what you have done, what you need to do, the things you should not have done.
Whatever takes you to you and not to Me deprives you of time to gather in, live in more of My Love for you.
It may not be an easy thing to do because you have spent so much time thinking about living in you for so many years that this is what is familiar to you.
None-the-less, I challenge you to start thinking, acting, being in ME.
It will take time and energy but it is time and energy well spent. It will not prove fruitless. On the contrary it will prove itself abundantly – in abundance.
Nothing, I repeat nothing else is more important for your soul and the souls of others than for you to realize that it is not about your sins or your contrition, but all about My Love.
Your contrition is not meant, intended to remove the guilt or grievousness of your sins.
Your real honest contrition is to admit that My Love is the Center of your life and what you are striving for.
Now sit and be still.
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