DO NO HARM -- #1308 Aug. 22, 2021

 #1308  Sunday, aug. 22, 2021   7:10 am            home

How do you ache to serve Me more?

Are you willing to give up gossip, running people down, making fun of others?

That is a huge leap for some of you.

Why do we comment about others oddities?

Does it make us feel better?  Does it fill in the conversation? Does it stop you from having to share your hopes and dreams?

Maybe we use it as a cover-up for our own imperfections.

Keep still.  Let Me write. Let Me express Myself.

Do no harm.

What do you think I mean by that?

Because when you do harm to others, you are also harming your own soul.

We don’t think of it like that, or perhaps we do not want to think of it like that.

We do not at times mind denying our own weaknesses, do we?

Hmmm.  We will readily reveal others weaknesses while desperately avoiding to confront our own.

Where is the sin in that you say.

Do I have to show you?

REVIEW -- #50 from Nov. 4, 2012

 #50     Nov. 4, 2012, Sunday, 7:14pm – at home   (Faith in Action)

Sit quietly.  Sit rejoicing to be in My Presence.  Do not hesitate to thank Me forever being present in your life.

My Heart delights in our companionship.  There is so much to say, so much I want to share.  

Quiet your soul. Make no plans.  Just be totally content to be in My Presence.

Don’t try to hide your thoughts from Me.  I know them already and that is why I ask you to be totally satisfied in My Presence not in your presence.

Such a battle goes on doesn’t it between wanting to serve Me and wanting to serve you.  I understand.  

Remember I  battled with this in the Garden of Gethsemane. I have experienced All before you.  I know all pain, anguish, suffering, grief.  

The only thing I do not share is your guilt.  That has come from you, not from Me.  That invades your soul from the evil one.

Guilt is something you feed.  Guilt binds you and keeps you from looking to Me.  You want to add salve to your guilt but you can’t – it is impossible.

Your heart believes that ‘when I live in guilt I will prove sorrow, regret at an action’.  

This is FALSE.

When you live in guilt, you do not give any credit to the One who can remove All guilt.  

But you do not want to ask me to remove it, because you feel it serves a healthy purpose and makes you contrite.  

This is FALSE.

If you are contrite, then run hastily to Me and give it all over to Me.  Explain why you feel contrite – lay it out before My Eyes.  Let Me look at it.  Let My Heart investigate it with Love. 

If you stay in guilt, you are not contrite.  A contrite heart humbly hands over any misdeeds it has done so they can be consumed in the fire of My Love.

My Love burns all that needs to be rendered whole.

The fire of My Love consumes a contrite heart, not burning it but cleansing it, making it whole and healthy again.

I don’t care how many times you bring Me a contrite heart.  The fire of My Love will consume that which needs to be cleansed, setting your heart on the path of health once again.

Do not trouble yourself but walk in the light and promise of the Lord.  If it were not so I would have told you.

So the moment guilt climbs on board and takes you to dark places, bring it hastily to My Heart and empty your heart’s guilt into Mine.  

I can, I will consume your guilt but I can’t unless you bring it to Me.  

I will not interfere with your choice – if you want to let the guilt keep gnawing away at you – do you really like that feeling?  

But I will answer when you bring it to Me.

So often we hear people say that we have to come to Me with a humble contrite heart.  

Yet I tell you that ‘coming to Me’ is the act of a humble contrite heart.  

Remember, it is said – faith without action…

(here God said ‘wait I have to answer the door and He welcomed in Pat (Lisa’s dad) and asked me to come and see Pat and welcome him.  Then God asked me to tell Him how much Pat was loved – Pat kept his head down and saying he was not worthy.  We can be in God’s presence, welcoming our loved ones into His Presence.  O God, O God, O God)

Remember, it is said – faith without action is nothing.  

So when you come hastily to Me with your guilt that is faith in action.  You believe in My Saving, Healing Graces and you bring the part of you that needs healing to My Heart.  

Do you realize what a huge ‘faith into action’ action this is?

Think about it.  

We can have faith and put it into action but have we ever realized that the greatest ‘faith into action’ act is believing that anything you bring to Me is honored by My Sacred Heart, is welcomed, is graced, loved, healed, forgiven, set free.  Alleluia!

Getting back to Me asking you to welcome in Pat – why should this be impossible for Me to do?

My Kingdom IS.  It is here among you and yet unseen most of the time.  Why wouldn’t I, as I welcome those who have died, ask their friends and relatives to speak to Me about them.

It is not a wild and crazy notion.  It is a simple request.  

Come speak to Me about your loved ones who have died.  Tell Me about them.  Encourage My mercy – I Love being asked – again it is your faith in action.

Come sit next to Me and I shall tell you more.  

Hush, hush, don’t try to run ahead.  Now still your human imagination and sit still with Me.  Stop writing and sit still and see with My Eyes, My Heart.

(O God what a gift you have just given me.)

I invited you to sit with Me and welcome someone in before us.  You welcomed in your Mother and Dad.

You realized that sitting with Me and seeing through My Eyes and Heart that all you could offer them was your love and you told them you loved them, then listed off to Me the gifts they brought into your life – decency, honesty, faith, your dad was a gentleman, admired by his students; your mother – when she made soup, macaroni, washed your hair, did homework with you.  You got to see their faith in action.

You noticed I did not ask you to name off any of their faults, because that is not what you sit with Me for.  

You are called to sit with Me to look on those you call before Us to Love them and to Love them deeper and deeper.  

It has nothing to do with any judgments you may have had through your human nature.  It has all to do with just Love.

That is why I have taken judgment out of your hands because it stops the flow of Love and all, ALL, ALL I have asked you, and all My Beloved to do, is Love.

So thank Me that you do not have to judge. Thank Me for setting your heart free just to Love, to Love deeper and deeper.

Now cast your care aside, cast off judgment and don’t hesitate to come aside and sit with Me and welcome those of your family and friends who have died and show Me their goodness and show Me your Love for them.

Be still.  Thank you for your tears.  

Your heart’s desire has been fulfilled – going knowing I Love you and My Love has no bounds – no separation of heaven and earth.  I am with you always and everywhere!

REVIEW -- #49 -- from Nov. 1, 2012

 #49     Nov.1, 2012, Thursday, 9:50 a.m. – St Theresa’s chapel  (Trust in Me)

Gently let all else fall to the side.  Gently come and enter My Heart.  

Gently and humbly listen to My Words.  

Words of Freedom, Words of Love, Words of Encounter, Words of Silence, yet Words to be shouted to the ends of the earth.  

Let your heart cry aloud these Words.  Let them be so profound that you can’t keep them within.

Try not to race ahead of Me with your thoughts but be very willing and obedient to wait on each Word.  

I know sometimes you don’t know what the next Word will be that I am going to give you.  Isn’t this Trust?

Isn’t that profound Trust?  You don’t know but you still are willing to put pen to paper, to step forward not knowing.  That is what Trust is all about.  

If you knew what was going to happen in the next moment, there would be no need at all to Trust.

Step aside from your mind and put on My Mind.  I Know all,  I Delegate all, I AM in All, I sit, stand, abide in ALL.

This Trust is such a God-send because then you can slow down.  

Slow down your body and mind because you do not have to be concerned about the next instance.  Relax in My Trust.  Free yourself from you by Trusting in Me.

Anchor yourself in My Trust.

Reach out and Trust – not touch, but Trust.

Fall on your sword of self-importance and self-solving.  Fall into My Trust.  It is fathomless.  

Give nothing up, but rather give it ALL over to Me.  

Trust that I will make all work for good.  

Release yourself from the bonds of distrust which have been nurtured through human experience, and put yourself into My Trusting Arms.

I have never, will never, let you down.  Sure the world around you may be seeming to crumble but My Trust is on an awesome foundation – one that will never fade or erode.

My Promises are always complete and good.  

My Faithfulness to My Beloved Ones is never to be doubted.  

It may not seem like the answer that the world would provide, but it is the Only Answer necessary for your eternal soul.

Take heart.  Take My Heart.  Take it into your heart.  Let My Heart take in your heart so our hearts become one with no distinguishing.  Melt into Me as I so desire to melt into you.  

Let your trust be a springboard to My Heart.  Do not let go of Trust.  Nurture it.  Nourish it.  

Start out small if you must but do start. 

Trust that I open your eyes each day.  

Trust that I cause the sun to rise and the rain to fall.

Take things that seem so simple and almost silly and start to express your trust in Me about them.  

Say: “I trust Lord that my ears will produce earwax.”  Now this does sound foolish, eh?  Yet we sometimes overlook occasions of expressing our trust to Me in little, little ways.

Why is it silly to trust Me in small things?  I am in charge of ALL things, so don’t hesitate to Trust Me in all things and say out loud, to Me.  

Let your heart that yearns to Trust express it all to Me.  

Don’t wait for major moments to try on Trust.  Use it often.  Then the heart and head will be more ready in tough times to place All Trust in Me.

It is like saying “I am going to hit a homerun” without going out there every day and hitting a ball.  

Your head and heart have to come to the knowledge, thru practice, that since you can hit a ball, it is very likely as you practice more and more that you will hit a homerun.  

Of  course if you have never held a bat in your hand and hit a ball, your heart and head will contradict your highfaluting plans. 

So practice daily Trusting in Me in all things.

And remember that Trust and Thanks go hand in hand.  When you have Trusted it ALL to Me, give thanks for it all.

Like “Lord I trust that the grass will grow even without me seeing it progress and I thank you for being in charge of Your Creation.”

Let yourself Trust Me in all things and Thank Me for the gift of Trust.

And your trust eventually will go much deeper than your immediate human needs and touch the needs of your soul.

You may say: “Lord I trust you will get me there safely.”  Yet something might happen – an accident or whatever.  

Do you run back to Me and throw My Trust in My face saying that I didn’t come through for you?

Or does your soul slowly realize that the ‘there’ you prayed about may have a more circuitous route in My Heart?

What really is the ‘there’ we’re seeking – some earthly destination or ultimately our heavenly home?

In our prayer of trust do we not first and foremost have to Trust in Him for all things?

Perhaps our prayer can be:  “Lord I trust that You are with me at all times and in all  ways and Your Heart will work only for my good.”

You see we give God ‘directions’ when we tell him to ‘get us there safely.’

Is not the deeper prayer to place ourselves in His Hands trusting totally in His Plan for our lives?

In the first instance, I do not want any harm coming to me or my loved ones.

In the second instance, I throw all caution (control) to the wind and let Him be totally in charge and call the shots.

So in the second case, I trust (blindly) that You are with me at all times and that Your Will for me and my welfare are more supreme than my will for my welfare.

So instead of:

“I trust Lord that You will get me, us, there safely.”

Perhaps:

“I trust You are with me all ways.”

Talk about unbinding Christ from our wants and allowing His Will for me to reign supreme.  

Lord I trust in You.  Help me to trust even deeper in You.

Quiet, still, trust, be thankful,  kind, not obstinate, open to My Word, grateful, joyful, laugh out loud because you are surrounded by My Love which should make you giddy.