#89 Jan. 31, 2013, Thurs. 4:45 p.m. – at home
(Memories)
Thank you for coming aside to listen to My Words.
Take your time writing these Precious Words. They hold all the Wisdom of Creation. They know My every thought and want to share them with others.
Don’t rush through My Words. Realize how Precious they are.
Don’t hesitate to stop and contemplate even a small portion and know it is Me speaking directly to you.
What a blessing!
You are not reading something written by another human being. These Words are Eternal – from My lips to your ears, from My lips to your heart.
Read them out loud knowing that you are speaking My Words – not something you have merely made up, but rather something that vibrates from your larynx – My Words being proclaimed and claimed by you.
How blessed you are. How precious you are.
I want you to realize how I Love to hear you proclaim and claim My Words to your heart.
I delight in how they impact your heart. Do you feel them banging into your heart – eager to enter—eager to be taken in and housed there?
You can’t read them with your lips and not have them impact your heart.
Remember I Knock -- well this is what these Words of Mine are doing – Knocking on your heart, asking to enter and abide there.
Yes, I have to wait sometimes for you to answer, but My Love is patient.
And, a secret, I know how these Words of Mine have a way of slipping in through the smallest cracks in your heart, ready to flow forth at your bidding.
I am delighted when I see how My Words are impacting your heart and soul. I delight that your efforts to be closer to Me you are finding in these Words I am dictating.
Remember, these Words of Mine are meant to joyfully impact your life.
They are not meant to chastise, abuse, catch you up, correct or give you regrets.
They are meant to RELEASE you from all that past garbage which may have gotten in the way of our relationship.
Don’t look to your faults and failings. Look to Me.
If you dwell on the former, you are not seeking to be with Me or to please Me or to grow in our relationship.
Remember to climb out of you and climb into My Heart.
I do not care what your burden is. I do not mean that as it sounds.
I care and you know I care about ALL of you. However, I do not say to bring only your cares to Me. I want you to bring ALL of you to Me.
I care that you cry, I care that you laugh. I care that you feel angry, I care when you want to forgive.
Do you care that I want ALL of you?
Sit with Me if you wish and list off all of you that you want to surrender to Me.
Will you surrender your memory to Me?
That is a tough question – no, it is a tough question to answer.
But I give you time to ponder what this means. It does not mean having no memory. What it does mean is that you are willing to give your memories to Me.
Let us sit with them and look at them together. Let us see My Hand in each one. Let us not chastise a bad memory but look at it thru the eyes of Forgiving Love.
Are you willing to relinquish your happy memories?
Sure you no doubt want to relinquish to Me all your bad memories, but are you willing to surrender to Me your good ones too?
It is hard to explain but I will try.
I am not trying or asking you not to have memories, but when you sit with them do you just revel in them yourself and reminisce to endeavor to bring you joy? Or are you willing to just hand them over to Me – thank Me for them and not dwell in them?
Dwelling in them whether they are good or bad removes you from Me in the Now and Present.
It is a daydreaming world that is no longer active and present, yet it takes you away from the present and who I am in your life right now.
Whether it is a good or bad memory, if it removes you from Me it is not a healthy endeavor.
It is either seeking happiness from something in the past, or wanting to relive a hurt just to keep the wound festering and feeding your hurt you.
Neither is real. Neither brings you closer to salvation.
My Father gave each of you a memory, so you could learn and recall and learn again.
Yet we can abuse our memory and make it a safe place to hide from reality or even a hurtful place to hide from reality.
Your memory should be instructive. I did such and such and this happened, so next time I will be more careful. Or I did such and such and people had a good time, so I can offer that delicious meal again.
And we thank God that we have a good memory either to teach us or remind us of good things and to warn us about bad things.
However, it is not meant for you to dwell there.
So anything in your memory that pulls you away from living in the present and keeps you day dreaming or wishing for the past, is taking you away from Me, now.
A relationship cannot, will not survive on such a coming and going of your heart and soul.
We climb back into a good memory sometimes because we felt loved, wanted, admired and those feelings are only feeding the you that really is still searching for the real Me.
How did we get here? How did we get to discussing memory?
Interesting the paths we wander down. And yet these are things about you that I know need to be discussed.
Do not rely on your memory to satisfy the joy or even the anger you want to experience now.
Certainly you can see recalling something joyful to make you feel good now, but they both are not in the present.
So you are satisfied to live in the present through some joyful recall from the past.
And of course you will come to realize quickly that you aren’t living in the present – you are breathing, your heart is beating, but you are not present to you or to Me – the fullness of you, the fullness of Me.
And sometimes, it may be hard to explain, we want to go back to some dark time in our past and keep digging it up --- either because of regret, anger, unfulfilled dreams, shame.
So doing this, you know, you are not living in the NOW.
Because those emotions come from something in the past and are still festering where they didn’t even originate.
That is why you bring your memories to Me and we will sit with them.
Thank Me for the good ones and then hand them over because they, although they are not bad, they keep you and Me apart in the Present.
Ask Me to soothe your bad memories – to look at them from a Lover’s viewpoint.
To take the edge off because Love conquers all.
They may appear appalling to you and others, yet in My Presence they wither under the gaze of Love.
So thank the heavenly Father for giving you a memory; and be willing to surrender to Me, Jesus, all your memories.
What I think is great about these writings Margo, is that ‘things’ seem to pop out of nowhere, yet are most important topics to be mentioned for you to contemplate.
Each insight gives you a closer idea of how you can grow closer to Me.
I invite you to turn your good and bad memories to Me.
Ask Me to give the consolations that your good memories bring, but a thousand fold more.
Ask Me to tenderly care for your bad memories erasing the pain, even if only gradually, that has bound you for years and let you see I understand and accept your pain.
I will take ALL and heal ALL.
Sit with Me. Not how you sat with Me yesterday or will sit with Me tomorrow, but as you are and I AM right now.
Together NOW before the Great Creator.
