#358 Mar. 7, 2015, 6:30am, at home (bedside book) (feeling sorry for yourself)
Precious, precious ones.
Come aside and listen to My Words of Love.
Do not scatter to the 4 winds telling Me that you have so, so much to do.
You, first and foremost, should come to Me; surrender yourself and your day and ask Me what My Plans are for you this day.
Then joyfully ask Me for the Graces needed to carry out today’s Plans.
Take all else out of your mind and put all of Me in there.
“Here I am Lord, come to do Your Will.”
Tell Me that that does not free up your day.
Let Me be your Daily Planner. Let Me put your heart on the right path.
We can’t do this if we don’t believe that the day is Mine anyway.
I Created this day, each second, each allotment of air, each snowflake, frost, each icicle.
This day does not belong to you.
But that is not how we think.
Our thoughts lead us to planning our day so we can be in control of each moment and action.
Have you ever been frustrated at the end of a day because you feel you did not do enough, or much of anything?
Why do we sometimes think/feel that way?
Tell Me what you have planned for today. Now tell Me that you want Me in charge of planning your day.
It is a huge leap because you feel that some of the things you want to do may not get done. Right?
So you do not trust that I will see that all that needs doing will get done.
Rather tell Me, no, beg Me to give you the trusting Grace to come to Me and discern what really needs to be done to fulfill My Will in your life.
Joyfully submit yourself to Me to be lead mercifully through this day.
Do not get in the Way, but rather come aside several times if need be and ask -- “What do you Lord want me to do?”
It may seem like a submissive role, yet look at it.
Does it not take more Grace to discern that My Way is the right way and therefore the better way to go?
Does it not take more Grace to let go of you and put on Me? It most certainly does!
It is not a submissive role as we imagine that servants are submissive.
A submissive servant does things out of duty not so much out of Love. And that is what makes you different when you surrender to My Will.
If done reluctantly, of course you will feel used.
If done out of Love for Me and My Plans for you, it is a whole different story.
A Joyful servant realizes that their way is not the best way because we do not have the overview that the Lord has of His Plans for the World.
The grumpy servant wants to insert himself into the day – his wishes, his thoughts, his plans.
Yet when we surrender our day and ourselves to the Lord, we have most definitely asserted our plans, our choices.
We have chosen to give ourselves over to the Lord.
This can be such an act of selfless love. Of course this depends on our attitude of surrender doesn’t it.
Do we surrender because we think we have no other choice?
But to surrender because we know it to be the healthiest thing for our soul to do.
Can you see how joyful surrender can keep us out of sin, and don’t we all ache to be sin-free? Yes.
If I am doing the Will of God, I will not wander off into sin.
So if I do catch myself in sin, I then know that at some point in the day I took back my surrender and let me lead me.
I tell you the World does not have to see you do great things when you surrender to Me, yet you will be doing great and grand things for your soul.
And if your soul is healthy, the World around you will be healthier for it.
Let Me see. If you surrender to Me, then throughout your day you can affect goodness in the World.
Don’t we all want more Love in the World? Yet who have we assigned to bring more love into the World?
Why do we speak out about the evil in the World, if we do not see that our un-loving ways are only adding to the evil?
Reach higher and further.
Thoughts of evil in the World, where do they take you?
Usually, to mean thoughts about the people committing evil. Right?
You get cross, upset, angry, say mean things about them.
Does this build up the Mountain of Love? It most certainly doesn’t.
Keep before you My Greatest Commandments --- great guidelines to living.
Do you love Me? You know I do Lord.
Then why do you dislike surrendering to Me, the Fount of Love?
How can you Love when you will not draw Love from the depths of My Heart?
That is surrendering --- not submitting to My Orders, but willingly dipping into My Sacred Heart, moment by moment and using My Divine Love to guide you.
Look and see, perhaps I should say, notice times during your day when you don’t dip into My Most Sacred Heart for your guidance.
--- when you get led into gossip
--- when you run someone down because of their actions
--- when you refuse to clean up after another. You know the niggling voice that tells you that the other should clean up their own mess.
When you hear that sly voice, run to My Sacred Heart not seeking to play the martyr’s role, but rather aching to have Jesus fill you so that these words in your head fly swiftly away.
“I won’t pick up that sock Lord because it is not mine to pick up.”
What ever happened to Love your neighbor? Well Lord that could not apply in this circumstance.
So now you are going to tell Me what My Commandment means?
I say be so meek and humble that you delight when you find a reason to do something for your neighbor especially when your neighbor doesn’t even see that you have done it!!
YIKES! If I do loving things Lord, then my neighbor should be most grateful? No, No, No.
Then you have not done it for Love of Me or them.
You have done it for your own recognition.
You seek thanks for the task only to satisfy your unbounding need for praise.
So, no, that is not the love of neighbor I am seeking.
Do not pick up the sock and offer this little deed to Me as a suffering, or a giving up of yourself --- there is no love in this kind of action.
Pick up the sock out of Love for Me and your neighbor. Perhaps even attach a prayer of thanks and praise for this ‘neighbors’ soul.
And please do not throw into My Face this thing about everything being even-steven.
That is not how I work and you should know that by now.
If you have to pick up one sock, he should have to pick up the next sock? Please!!!
That is how you want to control the World so all is even-steven.
Oh such foolish pride and waste of time for your soul to even contemplate this as being equal.
Do you see the wasted energy in trying to make things equal?
They cannot be.
So do not waste precious soul time trying to even out the chores in the house.
Do take the time each day to surrender to Me and let Me even out the chores in your soul.
Not with regard to your soul versus their soul. No, No, No.
Rather your soul as I want it to be before Me.
When you start feeling sorry for yourself or you brag about what you have done, what blessing does that bring on your soul?
NONE!
--- not because I don’t want to fill it with Graces and Blessings but because you have shut it down, closed it so I can’t get in, and allowed you to run the show and ultimately ignore the most important thing --- the worthiness and needs of your soul.
So be Very Aware of feeling sorry for yourself, or on the other hand being a martyr – none of these roles will get any applause from Me --- oh from the devil yes, but not from Me.
Because if I applauded these roles you would think you are doing the right thing for your soul and you know deep down you are not.
Toss aside your need for praise and thanks. Seek only Me.
I will nourish your soul so that you no longer need to cling onto thanks and praise as the sustenance in your life.
Can you see the junk food you have been feeding your soul for years?
Now, joyfully give Me yourself in your day.
Await My Coming in so many circumstances in your day.
Rejoice that your soul gets to see Me and not you in all that happens today.
What a great adventure to see more of Me and less of you.
Rejoice the Kingdom wants to come to you this day! WOW!
Walk gently in it, Love tenderly in it.
I Love you. You are Mine.
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