#178 Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, 10am. St. Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament
My Heart welcomes all My Beloved constantly to come aside and be with Me.
Let not a second pass that you are not in My Presence. Really a second does not pass that you are not in My Loving Presence.
I am always present to you, however you are not always present to Me.
This is not pointing out blame.
It is saying that My Nature calls for Me to be always present to you. By human nature you have to work on being more and more present to Me.
So often, and not planned at all , we take our eyes and thoughts off of Me when going somewhere, talking about something or someone, etc.
It is not done intentionally, however I am going to ask you to try to be more ‘intentional’.
Before you speak – ask Me.
Before you travel – ask Me.
Before you make a phone call – call on Me.
Before you go on your computer, dedicate all you do on the computer to Me.
Thus you will become more aware of My Presence in your life.
You have to gently teach you, that it is not all about you, by bringing Me up often and more often.
Then your heart gets more used to My Presence and seeks it more often for all sorts of decisions, etc.
We can go through a whole day without referencing Me.
Yet I was there at each moment.
It is like not wanting to mention the elephant in the room.
You have to choose to recognize Me in your life.
I cannot and will not impose Myself unless your heart first asks.
So ask away. I don’t mean you have to ask questions, but just say something like
“thanks for reminding me to call the doctor.”,
“thanks that I have good veins so when they go to take blood or give me an IV, it doesn’t hurt.”
Now I hear you saying “But what if I don’t have good veins?”
Then thank Me for being with you to strengthen you through this suffering, and thank Me for the medical staff for gently persisting and making every effort to help you.
You see clearly that we sometimes seem to only be thankful for good things and struggle to find Me and thank Me in the harder times.
So what a great opportunity! Look for My Hand and Thank Me in the hard situations.
Like your car broke down when you really wanted to get to church. Where am I, you ask, because you had good intentions of going to church.
Will you Trust Me and Thank Me that My Will for this time far exceeds your desire to go to church??
Hard to believe eh?
But you want to see More of Me in your life and I can’t be there unless you accept each situation as My Will, My Hand on it.
It’s easy, or so we think, to see God’s Hand in the birth of a new baby, but not so easy to see His Will, His Hand on the death of a young child.
He does not ‘will’ suffering, BUT He is completely there for each of us with His Abundant Love when this suffering occurs. That is the difference.
We have to learn to be thankful for His obvious Graces and as thankful for His Graces of Love and Compassion in hard times.
We turn God ‘on and off’ according to our view of things.
So He is God to us in somethings and not even recognized in others.
He is really God of ALL or He is not God.
So we must go into ‘training’. Training our souls to praise and thank our God in ALL circumstances.
We do not thank and praise Him because awful things happen.
We thank and praise Him because He has remained faithful with His Presence of Love and Comfort even in the hard times.
So come aside and choose a side.
Will you be willing to see Me and praise Me and love Me at all times and circumstances of your life?
OR
Only choose Me in the good times and regret My seeming lack of presence in the bad times?
In the latter, you are choosing a God of Limited Power, Limited Ways, Limited Love.
Is that how you see Me and want Me to serve you?
I can and I want to serve you in ALL circumstances of your life, but I can’t if your heart does not welcome Me.
I never stop Loving you no matter what you choose, but our relationship gets deeper and deeper the more you put more and more Trust in Me and My Plans for your life.
“Lord, I surrender all of me to You this day.”
God Bless all those who read these words of Mine and thereby grow closer and closer to My Sacred Heart.
Pray for all those in Syria and thank Me for being there for each one of them. Bring them, -- their souls – all of them – into My Sacred Heart, with your soul, and sit in the intensity of My Immense Love.
Let Me, not you, burn away all anger and hatred. Come sit and be part of My Healing Work for My World.
