REVIEW -- #374 from April 19, 2015

 #374  April, 19/15, 12:55 a.m. – at home in bedside book

(Suffering Surrender)

I have more to share with My People.

Quiet your hearts.  Settle into My Most Sacred Heart.  Feel the Goodness I want to instill in you.

How do you want to feel?

Most people would say --- healthy, happy, joyful, un-suffering.

These are what you can find in My Most Sacred Heart.

The un-suffering you are seeking is not a lack of suffering, but rather understanding the richness of suffering.

Of course we do not want to suffer because so often it appears to be in vain.

Yet no suffering offered to Me is ever in vain.

It is usually in vain when it interferes with our plans, however it makes good sense when you see My Hand on it for a Higher Purpose.

It is like giving your life up for another.  Are you willing to endure suffering – i.e. give up your good healthy life – to save another’s soul?

We look at suffering as an interference in our life’s plan.  

How dare it step in and take over when you were doing quite, quite well without it.

It almost seems like it is interfering with your life.

You did not plan to suffer at this stage of your life, so it is more a bother than a means of saving other souls.

It really does interfere with our plans.  Do we ask Jesus, when we are suffering, if this is part of His Plan for you?

We perhaps don’t even think to speak with Jesus at all except perhaps to cease the suffering which is now upon us and which is interfering with our life’s plan.

We don’t see the point in suffering because we had all sorts of things planned that we were going to do, and some of them we thought God would think were pretty worthwhile.

Have I forgotten to surrender my control over me and my day to the Lord?

I surrender myself but does that include controlling my suffering too?

So, when I suffer during the day will I willingly and hastily surrender it to the Lord or am I only willing to surrender when all is going well?

Are you willing to give up your life for another?

You had never thought of it in this context before --- surrendering your suffering to save souls.

Now, you know I, Jesus, am the only Saviour, but your ‘suffering surrender’ shows Me you are most willing to give up your planned life for the sake of another.

Did I not do the same for you?

You can either take on suffering as a horrible burden and a dark interference in your life, or you can make of it a thing of beauty, a prized pearl.

Do not run around looking for suffering, rather when it does arrive at your doorstep, realize the many Graces and Blessings it brings with it – for you and for others.

Now to sleep.  Thank you for listening to My Words of Encouragement and Acceptance.

From now on do not look at suffering as an interference in your life’s plan, but rather as an onslaught of Graces and Blessings that you don’t want to miss out on. 

These are Graces and Blessings needed by each soul to grow closer to Me.

Although the suffering might deplete you bodily, it will strengthen you spiritually.  

What a blessing in disguise suffering is.

O Lord, help me to surrender all of me to you --- my plans, my thoughts, my actions. 

Do not, through your Generous Graces, allow suffering to distract me from surrendering.

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NEED FOR GOD! -- #1401 from Nov. 12, 2022

 #1401  Sat.  Nov. 12, 2022,   6:28am,   at home

Do not close your eyes to the cries of the poor.

It is befitting that we reach out with compassion to assist them.

Do you not cry out to Me?

Asking Me to help you who sometimes feel oh so poor in spirit.

I do answer, don’t I  --  even if it is with the Grace of Consolation.

Our spirits do not need food as such, but they have to know that Someone else cares for the deeper need in each of us.  

The need for God!

REVIEW -- #373 from April 14, 2015

 #373  Tues. Apr. 14/15, 10:55am, St. Theresa’s before Blessed Sacrament

(the all of you in My Sight)

Make haste to record My Words. It does not mean that you need write fast, but rather that you hear My Voice to you to write and you respond without hesitation.

Each one of you has so much to give.  

Have you heard Me ask you to give Me your ALL?  Give ALL of you to Me. 

What today are you holding back and not relinquishing to Me today?

The surrender phrase is not something you say once in your life, or once a day every day of your life.

No, No, No.  You must be ready and eager to surrender ALL of you to Me at any time.

Now tell Me what have you not surrendered all of to Me today:

 Your ego

 Your pride

 Your humility

 Your joys and sufferings

 Your laughter

 Your impatience

 Your honesty and your lies.

And the list can go on.

I want you to come to realize what makes up the ALL of you.  

We don’t think our cold has to be surrendered to the Lord.  

We don’t think our snow shoveling has to be surrendered to the Lord.

Now all the heavens will not fall apart if you don’t surrender ALL of you to Me – your cold, snow shoveling, etc.  

But I assure you when you do surrender all of these to Me the heavens are more open to you soul.

All of these tiny surrenders keep you in ever closer touch with Me.

It is like phoning one of your siblings to tell them some great news, then not calling again till another great news event occurs.

You would be more inclined to call them more regularly just to chat about little things – the first crocus you saw, the good movie you watched, how your cold is doing, how they are getting along day to day.

How often do you call Me to tell Me ALL your good news.  “I woke up today feeling great Lord.”  “I just had my eye aura.”  “I just banged my leg on the stool.”

Do not presume anything is too slight.  I want to hear from you and all about you.

Let us stay connected.  

And note I never hang up on you.  

I call you daily and then many times during the day to come aside and be with Me.

Now that we are talking to each other don’t hesitate to share with Me some of the concerns that have risen in your heart so far today.

Remember nothing is too slight that you can’t bring it to Me and place it in My Hands.  Watch Me Love it and care for it like a precious pearl.

Now bring Me something else on your heart;  now something else, now something else.

Bring your tiniest concerns and place them in My Loving Hands.

It is like going into all the cracks and crevices of you and sweeping out even the smallest piece of dust or dirt.  

We see the big stuff that bothers us but many, many times we don’t think of the very small things.  

Yet even the very small things are a part of you that I Love. 

Bring Me a runny nose, a tear drop, a sneeze, a reaction to some food smell, surrender them all to Me.

Let our relationship be that close that nothing seems trite to you to bring to Me.

Our relationship is not as solid when you endeavor to discern which is good to bring to Me which stuff is too mundane or foolish to bring to Me.

Do you see who is stepping aside?  

Do you see who is making the choice not to be in My Presence with the all of you?  

I want you to realize the beauty of you --- the Created ALL of you --- with very important parts and some not seemingly as important to you, but always equal in My Sight.

I don’t break you up into parts.  I Created the ALL of you and that is what I ask you to bring to Me daily.

You do not have to list off each and every part of you, but I ask you to be conscious that each and every part of you is dearly, lovingly cared for by Me.  

Tell Me “Dear Lord I surrender to you today all the huge parts, big parts, small parts, smaller parts, even the tiniest parts of me that are all part of me.”

Yet your prayer of surrender can be simple.  “Lord I surrender all of me to You this day.”

I just want you to know what the ‘all of you’ means in My Sight.  It is not what you think as the ‘all of you’, but rather what I know to be the ALL of you.

Perhaps “Jesus take the all of me.”  

But I want you to know the all of you.  

I already do, so if I just take the all of you it will not be as significant in our relationship as when you surrender the ALL of you.

So pray that your surrendering prayer brings you closer each day to coming to know the all of you in My Sight.

Go in Peace.  Bring Me everywhere with you today.  I Love you.