January 28, 2016

          “There is true heavenly joy when you stop to rest in God’s love.  So few souls know how to enter My rest.  You must come away from the world.  You must quietly sit before Me to seek My quiet presence.  The world has souls in its grip.  They cannot flee from the power of the earth around them, yet their spirits were created for another realm, the quiet, invisible realm of spirit where God resides in silent peace and rest.

          Many souls flee from the world by entering convents.  They see no other way to run from the distractions surrounding and choking them in the world and its environments.  They have chosen the spirit over the flesh.  They have realized that there must be a real breaking from the bondage of the flesh and its desires.  They seek “the best part”, to live alone with God alone, adoring Him in spirit and in truth.

          It takes great courage to make this break from the world, but it is an entrance into the peaceful pastures of peace, love, and joy, a bliss unknowable by earth’s inhabitants.  Only the courageous enter these realms of God’s abode, the spiritual realms beyond earthly thought.

          You must lose your life on this earth to find your eternal life.  It seems to be a vague, obscure door beyond which you cannot see what awaits you, but if you dare to cross this threshold, you will find God lovingly awaiting you.  He stands beyond the door, waiting to see who will be brave enough to despise the earth and all fleshly delights in order to buy the pearl of great price, oneness with his Creator.

          So few souls enter this heavenly life.”