REVIEW -- #105 from March 13, 2013

 #105   March 13, 2013   10:15a.m., St. Theresa’s Chapel before the Blessed Sacrament

I, the Lord, want to share with you.

Are you listening or are there things on your mind?

Toss all else aside.  Do not worry about the papal elections.  I am in charge.  

My Will will be done.  So pray in thanksgiving to the Holy Spirit who will assert himself over the conclave & touch many hearts.  So, pray in joyful thanks for a holy pope.

What is your cross today?  Gee you don’t have one?  Perhaps I have allowed you to rise above what would have formerly been crosses to you.  

You know that I have, so thank Me in recognition of what I have done already for you.

Always have the thank-you prayer first and foremost on your lips.

Like “thank You, Lord, for encouraging my heart to ache more and more for You.”

Endeavor now to begin each request or acknowledgement with a most sincere thank-you.

It brings your heart into a place of humility before Me.  It enables Me to see the sincerity of the prayer you bring before Me  --  that it comes from a heart that yearns to know Me more, and is so grateful for the opportunity to know Me more.

As you pray each time, at any and every moment, let your heart sing praises to Me for My Goodness and Blessings.  

Once again, I do not need your praises but you need to praise Me otherwise you think that you are the god in control of all.

When we do not thank, we withhold part of our humanity that does not want to share glory with another.  True isn’t it?

Like why thank hubby for emptying the dishwasher because you do it a lot of times and he doesn’t thank you.  It should just be a normal task that you don’t have to thank for.  

BUT, I tell you, be gracious for all your hubby, parents, sister/brother, friends do for you.

Be graciously thankful, not obstinately thankful or half-hearted thankful.  

Be fully thankful because you know the blessing it brings into your life – you don’t have to do the task!

Thank, thank, thank.  You know how you feel when thanked. So endeavor to make others feel good about themselves and the service they have rendered.

Why don’t we want to give thanks?  It is a good question.

Usually because we expect thanks in return. Well folly doddle that. 

Let go of poor you and move into rich Me – rich in Kindness, Gentleness, Love, Forgiveness, Humility.

Don’t get in the Way of My Graces for you!  

Do you realize what you are missing in buckets of Graces when you aren’t as kind as I am?  And you can be – yes, you can be.

Don’t say “I am not as good as God”, rather say, “God help me to be as good as you!”

You see who is in charge, you see who you give permission to act in your life --  not you but rather Me.

Stay true to listening to My Voice which will encourage you to be kind in all sorts of ways to all sorts of people.  Let it flow because you will be bowled over by the Graces that will flow back over you.

Step into My floodgate of Graces.  Honor them by acting as I have asked you to.

Release them over you and others.  

You have seen what happens when you are obedient to My Will – doors open that were shut; hearts melt that were once hard; life looks cleaner and brighter.

Let My Graces flow, Let My Graces flow.

Now go and be very kind and very thankful and share My Graces with others.  They may not know these Graces are from Me, but you and I know that these Graces will positively affect their lives.

God Bless.  I Love you.  Thank you for coming to sit with Me today!

REVIEW -- #104 from March 12, 2013

 #104      March 12, 2013, Tuesday, 11:15pm, at home

Come aside and reflect with Me.

You have been pondering something so now let’s look at it together.

What do you want to express?

First of all express it to Me.  Ask Me if this is what I want My People to hear.

Remember I have told you that I am far better with Words than you are.

Let Me explain.

If you wish your message to be centered on Me then let it come from Me.  Do not try to explain the ‘Center’ when you know so little about it.

I am the Center.  I want to be your Center.  I want to be the Center for each person.

So ask Me to explain about Me from Me.  Not your occasional glimpse of what I might be like.  

Look at My Words, My Actions.  They explain a lot about Me because I am uttering them, I am doing them.

We so often gaze at the Center and try to figure it out in our terms – according to our ideas about The Center.

But don’t hesitate to ask The Center yourself to share more of Him to you.

I want you to know more of Me, but your words, your analysis are so limited.

I am Unlimited and I will share with you insights you could never have imagined.

For instance, a drop of dew.  Why would this have been a necessary part of Creation?  What part did the Creator plan for it?  And is it doing its part?  Do you think the Creator knew how the early morning dew would delight the on-looker when the sun danced off of it?  

Do you not think that the Creator would know all the purposes for each drop of dew?

Can you think of all the purposes that a drop of dew would be created for?  No, you can’t.

So you see how you can’t explain Me or the Father or the Holy Spirit in your limited words.

Yet, I can tell you about Me in My Unlimited Words.  Yet, yes there is always a yet, I have to take great gentle care because you will not be able to absorb it all.

It would not be to the benefit of your health to know tons and tons of things about Me .  Your mind would shatter.  

That is why We have asked you, all of you, to endeavour to Love, to Love Unconditionally.  Accomplishing this is no easy task and will keep each of you very busy every day of your life.

Each time you endeavour ‘to Love’ My World opens up to you.  So you see I know you won’t get too much info at one time because our hearts are limited and have to work hard ‘to Love’.  

It is never a futile task.  It will prove more fruitful than you can ever imagine.  Your mind will be able to absorb more because your heart is Loving more. 

Your heart will Love more when your mind is free from trying to figure things out and just allowing Love to prevail.

Love conquers ALL.

Have a question – bring it lovingly into My Presence.

Have an angst --  bring it lovingly into My Presence.

Have a regret --  bring it lovingly into My Presence.

Now I know it will be hard to ‘bring it lovingly’ into My Presence, but this is the attitude I encourage you to practice.

If you bring it in anger you are not usually looking for a loving solution – you want revenge.

If you bring it in hopelessness, then you are quite convinced that nothing, not even I, will make it healed. 

So it is an attitude that helps make the difference when you bring it into My Presence.

Look at someone when they reach rock bottom.  When they come to Me it is sort of a last resort – they know that nothing else has worked, so they have come to realize they need Me.  

What graced knowledge!  What a blessing!  Because up to that point they were sure they were in control and could manage it all.

What a blessing when we throw our hands up and say “I give up Lord.”

It is so much more than a plea for help.  It is a complete surrendering.  And at that moment I am given charge of their well-being and just watch Me work.

So rest assured you do not have to reach rock bottom before you throw up your arms and surrender ALL to Me.

It is not the rock bottom of desolation, but the height of realization that should have you throwing up your arms in joyful surrender.

This is the ultimate of knowledge.  This is the ultimate of knowing Me.  I am your captor.  I want to walk with you.  I want to surround you with the bounty of peace.

I do not want to fill your head with the knowledge of Me.  I want to fill your heart with love for Me and My Love for you.

So sing praises, for you know that knowing Me is to know Love Profound – nothing more, nothing less.  There is nothing else in this world that you have to know. 

Look around you and see My Love in ALL things and you won’t be able to stop smiling because you now know that you have ALL knowledge because you love and are Loved – unconditionally.  This knowledge will move mountains.

All the sages all through the ages who have sought Me have only found Me after they realized that I AM LOVE.

Once you gather this fact into your heart, your searching is over.  You will be most content to just live in Love --  the ultimate of ALL knowledge.

Now sleep tight.  I will watch over you.  I Love you.

REVIEW -- #103 from March 11, 2013

 #103  Mar. 11, 2013,  Monday, 10:05am, St. Theresa’s church before the Blessed Sacrament.

You see Margo it is not the mortal sins that drag us down like an anchor around our neck.

The mortal sin certainly harms you, yet it stands out so vehemently that it is not hard to miss.  

It may be hard to admit, but through your good conscience it stands out quite obviously.  It may not be easy to confess, yet it cannot hide away.  You know what it is.  I know what it is.

Come to Me and lay this heavy burden before Me and I will give you rest.  

But it is not the mortal sins I wish to address.

It is the smaller sins that we feel aren’t too significant and really don’t need to be addressed.

See how sly the evil one is.  He tells you “well it isn’t mortal”, “it isn’t that bad”.  So from his advice we take ourselves off the hook!  Phew!

Yet these small sins build up, build a barrier between you and Me.

Think carefully now.  

If you tell a small white lie – (what is the difference between a white or black lie?  Please tell Me) – imagine you have put down a brick before you.  

Now you can still climb over that brick – it really doesn’t get in your way much.  Then place another brick in front of you for that small piece of gossip, which you tell yourself is not really gossip. Right?  

So put another brick down in front of you for denying that ‘it really isn’t gossip.’ 

Continue to place bricks in front of you when your anger takes you to continual anger, when your thoughts take you to improper thoughts, when your quick tongue takes you a step closer to slandering.  

How does your wall look now?

And unless you address each of these sins quickly, you will see that soon this wall cannot be climbed over.  It really is a barrier between you and God.

Sure, you say, “ I can walk around it.”  No you can’t.

You can’t get away from the damage you continue to do to your soul by avoiding your responsibilities.  Walking around this wall is a form of denial. 

“Not me Lord.  I didn’t build that wall over there.”  And instantly another wall starts to form in front of you.

It is such pride that keeps me from revealing the things I have done that build barriers between me and God.

Our pride dominates so much of our lives and tells us that ‘you really aren’t that bad…look at the nice things you did today or spoke today.’

Do you see how we hide from our true self-worth by excusing ourselves with even the smallest straw of congratulating ourselves on our great accomplishments.

How much we want to see ourselves as good;  how afraid we are to see the un-good in ourselves. 

So I tell myself I am really good going to church often, hoping that will burn brightly before the Lord.

We avoid going to God and saying “Lord I am more of a sinner than a saint, please help me.”

It is not done in a berating way but in full realization of who I am most of the time and who I would love to be all of the time.  

It is admitting to God, but even more importantly to ourselves that our perfection can only come through His continuing flowing Graces.

Me telling me I am bad puts me in a hopeless state.  Me telling God I am bad leaves me open to ask Him to help me be good-er.  

I, God, am not using ‘bad’ here as evil – although even that I can handle – what I do mean is that you know there is an ideal here to seek for and that is My Will.   

And sometimes we do badly in that seeking, yet coming to Me releases you from carrying ‘this cross of trying to be perfect’ leaving you very open to having Me help you carry this Cross.

Coming to Me sets a fire beneath you that will help you to burn away the ‘bad’ parts that keep you from being truly in My Presence.

Ache for this fire. Ache for the Graces to Come to Me to seek perfection for your dear, dear soul.

Do not try to escape from this task.  It is a task well worth aching for.  Don’t stop your heart from searching for this at all times.  

Keep the vision of the ‘bricks building this wall’ in front of you.  It is a very good visual to have so we can realize that our small sins throw up a barrier that we don’t even expect or suspect. 

We think if it is not mortal, then not to worry.

Do not worry but rather be informed that you need to address all your sins otherwise the barrier, bit by bit, continues to grow and soon you not only will not be able to climb over it, but you will not be able to see over it and then you become more of your god to you than I Am.

Sit,  adore and thank Me.

You are Mine.  I Love you.  Rest assured this reflection to you and all today is not done in criticism but in Extreme Love.  I want ALL of My People, ALL, to be with Me.

So thank Me for the Grace of revealing ‘this wall’ to you today.  

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