#162 Tues. July 30, 2013, 4:05pm, St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament
Pope Frances, I have called you forth to lead My Church.
Do not hesitate to proclaim My Love for each and every person.
I want your heart in rhythm with My Heart. Do not turn away from temptation but rather face it full on with Me guiding your every move.
Do not slander. Quietly pray for My Grace in each and every circumstance. Hastily retreat to My Heart and communion with Me there.
Smile. Laugh. Because you know you are Loved and that I walk with you in harmony and spirit.
Cast your shadow far.
Let Me take you places you have not dreamed of going.
Let us together stray from the humanly arranged path and venture to where light has never penetrated the darkness.
Shelter souls in your heart.
Awaken your spirit to more tremendous Graces from Me.
Catch fish gently.
Do not presume to know My Way but seek My Way each day.
Be gentle of heart.
Do not get caught up in anything that does not come from My Love or lead to My Deeper Love.
Fear nothing but the loss of My Graces.
Let your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth.
Bring your thoughts on this or that to My Sacred Heart and test them out in the fire of My Love.
I know each breath you take. It may sound silly but I have counted each hair on your head.
You do not need to learn the number but what you need to know is that each one has been personally touched by Me.
Lead My People. Walk with My People.
Cry, laugh, touch, and feel their need for My Eternal Love.
Bring all before Me in the Blessed Sacrament.
It is not their material needs that you must concern yourself about but rather their soul needs.
They want to know that I AM as real as their next breath.
They need to know that I AM as present as the rain and sunshine are to them.
They need to know their purpose --- to love Me through loving others. Not just doing good deeds but truly seeing and touching Me when they see, touch and care for others.
I am not separate from My Dear Ones.
I abide in each one, aching to be proclaimed in each one, yearning for the world to see Me in each one.
Cry Alleluia – “there is Jesus” -- not in the poor person but in ‘the person’.
Not in the sinner and the saint. Avoid the titles. Each person – proclaim Me in each person.
In your Confessor. In the priests who assist you, yet first look on them not as your Confessor or those who help you, rather see Me coming to attend your needs.
See Me as encouraging you to confess to Me.
All of us have titles yet when will we look beyond that and just Cry Aloud – “there is Jesus”!
Our vision is so limited to this physical world and thus our soul does not get the chance to ‘see’ Me, your Saviour and Redeemer in each person.
Can you imagine the story of salvation if I, Jesus, was recognized by each person. If each person recognized Me in the other.
Even the hardest criminal can bring me closer to the Redeeming Christ.
As we see now, we see neighbor, friend, hard to get along with, stubborn, without first and foremost giving Jesus full credit for being there in All His Glory.
Do I see Jesus in the Good Samaritan, the robber, the Older Brother?
Do I allow my vision to surpass my eyesight and be brought into the presence of Christ in each person? No, is the true answer.
We sometimes are clamoring over each other to get to see Jesus when He is there in the other.
We do not have to seek the poorest of the poor to ‘see’ Jesus.
We have to be able to ‘see’ Jesus in the simple disguise of the poor, the richest person, the smartest doctor, the disabled in mind and body.
We are called to call forth Jesus in that person.
It may seem easier if the person is good, kind, etc., but it is much more necessary for us to remove our blinders and call forth Jesus from each person we see.
Your heart will cry “here comes Jesus”!
And the anticipation of seeing Jesus will be rewarded.
We do not see Jesus in others because we are not looking for Him. He is not the center of what we are doing at many moments of the day, so we are blinded to seeing Him.
Ache, yes ache in your heart to see More of Jesus in each person and thus less of you in each day.
The more you find Jesus in others, the more they will see Jesus in you because you have, in your searching, become less by allowing Jesus to shine forth more from you.
Like John the Baptist leapt for joy in his mother’s womb when he ‘saw’ Jesus, when he encountered Jesus in Mary’s Womb.
It may be a gentle appearance but again it could be a sudden experience.
Let Me take you by surprise. Yet you will know it is Me.
You will not be afraid or wondering.
I will make it plain to you that you have encountered Me in this ‘disguise’ of this person.
I don’t want you thinking that each person is a robot run by Me.
Yet in each person I do exist and seek daily to make My Presence known to them and others.
If I were not in them I would have told you so.
I want you to release Me so that as you ‘see’ Me in each person, I become More of Me to you.
Does this make sense?
You see if you do not encounter Me in each person, your image of Me is very limited -- you do not grow in the knowledge of Me and My Love for everyone.
Some you would willingly cast aside because of their appearance, their attitude, their sins. Yet I am still there.
The disguise may not be enjoyable for you to encounter, but encounter it you must if you ache for More of Me in All of you.
It has never been about avoiding sin.
It is all about Me and My Love which, by our human nature and judgment, we choose not to see in All My Creation.
We do this for selfish reasons or fearful reasons, but when you avoid seeing Me in each person, you really are choosing not to see More of Me.
You will decide who will bear the light of Christ to you?
But who do you know I have chosen to do this?
How will you know who I send to enlighten you?
Look at it this way, take the chance that each person is bringing More of Me to you, then you can’t possibly go wrong.
So when you feel judgment or meanness creeping in know that these characteristics will snuff out you receiving More of Me.
How can I answer your prayer, as I want to do, ‘for you God to be More in me and less of me in me’, if you don’t grasp each moment in Creation to encounter Me in others?
It is funny how we will pray for one thing and then step in to control the results of our prayer by our actions or reactions to those we meet.
This is a huge challenge for most of us I know. But such a worthwhile challenge.
As you encounter each person in your day say to yourself “here comes Jesus”, “Hi Jesus”.
See how your heart will leap for joy that it has been blessed with the ability to see Jesus in each person.
Let Me know how you get along with this ‘practice’ of seeing and greeting Me in each person.
Thank you for coming aside. I Love you.
See how much more I want to Love you through others.
They don’t even have to know they are carrying My Love to you to nourish you, but you and I will know.
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