REVIEW -- #277 from June 30, 2014

 #277  Mon. June 30/14, 10am.  St Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

You heard Me call you while you were praying the seven sorrows of My Dearest Mother.  

Thank you for responding to My Call to pray these beads.

I want you to learn to pray in response to My Call and not necessarily your plan.

You had started these beads, yet I called when you were on the 4th sorrow – My Mother with Me as I carried the Cross.

Contemplate that simple scene.  Strip away all the others in the scene and just see Me and My Mother.

Were there words said?  Did she know by My Look that this was part of our life together.  Birth did not separate us and neither would death.

How she had to cling to her heart, which she had strengthened throughout her life by ‘pondering in her heart’ all that the Father was revealing to her from the first moment of His Request and her Affirmation response. 

You notice she did not try to figure it out in her head.  She took all to her heart – the center and life force of Love for her.

She did not ask questions as much as repeat and repeat “Thy will be done!”  

That is affirmation and pondering in one.  She did not have to take it apart and look at it from all angles.  

The only way she perceived it was through the Eyes of God himself.  If He sees it as such, that was good enough for My Mother.

You see, pondering something in your head and pondering something in your heart are 2 very different scenarios.

In your head --- you are in charge.

In your heart --- the seat of Love, He is in charge.

We want to figure things out so we can explain them to ourselves and to others in human terms.

Not so for My Mother.  She knew she did not need to see it clearly with the mind’s eye.  She was very content to have it worked on and solved in her heart, not by her but by Me.

Sure she felt sorrow.  She was human and living to the fullness of being human.  Yet, her sorrow was not darkened by hopelessness.

Following God’s Will is NEVER a hopeless endeavor.

Just because it may not seem to make human sense, does not mean it is hopeless.

You see, that is how we humans perceive hope and hopelessness.  

It is NEVER hopeless if we have our heart and head focused on Jesus.

We do not have to see the answer, understand the reason, feel good about the outcome because we have left all with Him in His Hands and thus ALL will be Good.

And don’t just wait for the ‘will be Good.’  Switch it to the present and declare to your precious soul that “ALL IS GOOD.”

We can’t look to the future to be Good.  We must grasp the I AM here in the present and thus “ALL IS GOOD.”

My Mother was not looking for better times.  

She was seeing the Good in the Moment.  

Her Son suffering and dying.  

She was not looking forward to the Resurrection (All will be Good).  She was in the moment and through her human tears she saw that ALL was Good.  

She saw her Son, the epitome of Good, so even though He was suffering – ALL was Good.

Do I make Myself clear?  Perhaps not.

When My Mother gazed upon Me in My Agony, she was in the moment and took this sadness not to her head but to her heart which was stronger and the place from which each of her Fiats had been spoken.

Her heart was tender and thus allowed her body to shed tears, yet her heart was strong because that is where she and God really met and made their first Pact “Your Will be done.”

My Mother will tell you:  “I certainly cried to see My Son suffering, yet I know that this was part of His Humanity and Divinity and that I must quietly watch and share and support Him in His Suffering.

I would not have reached out to stop His Pain.  I just wanted Him to know I was walking with Him in His Pain.  Supporting Him as He eagerly fulfilled the Will of the Father.” 

We were both eager to fulfill the Father’s Will, otherwise we would have opted out and chosen not to undertake this suffering path to Glory. 

Because at the time of our suffering, it did not look to anyone as if there would be any Glory.  

Yet He and I held to this bond we had – to do the Will of the Father.

Go now in peace, seeking from your heart to do the Father’s will --- knowing, being reassured by Me, Jesus and My Dear Mother that it leads to Glory.  

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