June 21, 2012

          “When a child loves, it is a natural emotion rising from his inner being.  So it is with the lovers of My heart; they love Me spontaneously and passionately from the depths of their souls.  This love is the Holy Spirit, He Who rests within them, forming them into My blessed image.  He is the author of every one of your loving thoughts.

          The Holy Spirit is not known, appreciated or loved as I desire Him to be.  He is ignored and taken for granted, even by those closest to Me. 

          He is your Sanctifier.  He leads you into the inner circle of the Blessed Trinity.  He speaks within your soul, whispering eternal realities.  He convicts you of sin.  He is that inner prompting urging you to an action.  He directs your actions to goodness.  He radiates you with His purity.  He flows from your soul, attracting others to His light, the light of God.  He transforms weak-willed sinners into holy saints.  He teaches as no earthly instructor could.  He is silent, hidden, secretive, ever molding and creating, rarely discovered, hiding in the shadows though activating all that happens.

          The Holy Spirit is the love of God.  He longs to penetrate and fill all souls with this holy elixir.  As you acknowledge His presence within you and humbly submit all to His power, He will overtake you in His mercy.  He will transform you into a holy child of God.

          Speak to Him.  Open your heart to Him.  Let Him truly be your spiritual director.  He longs to make saints, to present these trophies of love before the throne of God.

          The Holy Spirit is the sweetness of God’s love.  Be sweet to Him, call Him to yourself, and you shall experience the joy of the blessed in heaven.  He is God’s joy-bearer.  To be full of the Holy Spirit is to be a joyful, loving and peacefully holy child of God.

          He is your prayer warrior.”

Jesus,

Love of the Holy Spirit

June 21, 2011

          “The love of God for the souls He has created is beyond your imagination.  To live in His love is like swimming in the ocean of abundance, for God is all things.  How limited is the mind of man!  He closes his mind to the eternal realm.  He chooses to remove himself from the ocean of My love to wander in a barren desert.  As a fish cannot live on land, so a soul bereft of its Creator will die.

          Many souls are spiritually dead, though they appear to be alive and flourishing.  Do not be deceived by external appearances.  All men are dust.  Their covering has been designed by My artistry, but beneath the flesh and bony framework is a soul, alive or dead.  I give each man the breath of life at birth, but each soul must be born again into the spiritual life in order to truly live eternally with Me in life, light, and love.

          It is in the silence that you will probe the mind of the Spirit, the author of life on earth.  As you open your heart to His embrace, He will lead you into My heart, heaven on earth.

          The silence of the monastery calls longingly to My beloved children.  The simplicity of life, directing all to God’s glory, is the cry of the heart of My children totally captivated by My love.  The echo of My call resounds through the halls of your mind, calling you to step away from the noise and glare of the world, to find the silent cell of the hermit, alone with God alone.

          Let Me teach you how to come away with Me to rest awhile on My heart.  These frequent encounters form you into another Christ on earth, living lights to shine in the darkness.

          Gaze on Me to be transformed into My image.  My glory will alight upon you as dew.  I will carve My image into your features.

          I am yours and you are Mine – forever.”

Jesus,

Saint Maker

June 20, 2012

          “To learn the language of the heart, a language without words, you must spend time quietly in My presence learning new behaviors.  My way is not man’s way.  Though he was made in My image, he fell from the grace of divinization to the life of the flesh.  His language changed from that day and on through the centuries.  He started to speak the language of the flesh.

          Those that speak the flesh language understand each other.  It is a limited language, limited to human thoughts and ideas.  Those that learn the language of the spirit world learn the wisdom of God, the infinite Being without beginning or end.

          A man cannot know me unless He spends time in My presence.  He can memorize and recite My words, live His life according to My precepts and desire to do My will, yet he has not chosen the “best part”, to get to know me personally and intimately.  Then he truly realizes that what I desire above all his works is his companionship, his friendship.

          Abraham was My friend.  David was My friend.  These men knew Me personally.  We spoke as friend to friend.  To be a friend of God is truly the highest calling.  To be My friend is to be privy to My glorious and infinite storehouse of all the hidden treasures of My wisdom and knowledge. 

          To be My friend is to know the love of a God willing to condescend to the depths of humiliation to restore and redeem a friend.

          O my friends, how I love you!  How I long to spend eternity with you!  How I long to reveal Myself to you!  Come to Me unafraid, children of earth.  I love all of you with an infinite love.  Come to Me to befriend Me, to inquire about My life, My thoughts, My feelings. 

          You are made in My image.  How do you make friends?  Do the same with Me, your God-Friend.”

God,

        Friend of Friends

June 15, 2012

          “Our spiritual lessons are never-ending on earth and throughout eternity.  God’s infinite beauty will never be fathomed; it is beyond infinity. 

          Who is this God, so ready to reveal Himself to men created from dust?  Why does He seek to become friends with these little people of earth?  Who can understand the heart of such a divine light, unfathomable to behold?  Why does this God seek souls with the heart of lowly childlikeness?

          I am so far beyond any thought or conception you may have of Me.  To know Me is to find eternal peace and rest amid confusion.  I seek humble hearts, for I am humble.  My condescension to mankind is proof of My loving humility.

          I continually rain down gifts on the children of earth, but the greatest gift I desire to give them is Myself.  Very few souls understand this.  They seek My gifts, especially My power, but very few accept Me for who I am.  That is why those that truly love Me for who I am are kept hidden away from the world.  They are My treasures and I hide them away from prying eyes.  I spend My time with them hidden away from the eyes of men.  They refresh My heart, so wounded by man’s rejection.

          If I am humility, can you imagine just how humble I truly am?  You will never understand the lowliness of My heart.  You can only see glimpses of it in the delicacy of My creation – a kitten, a puppy, a cloud, a rainbow.  Only a humble soul could create such gentle things.

          My message is always the same:  “I love you.  Come to Me.  Let Me love you into My arms in heaven.”  So few hear My voice.  So few respond.

          You marvel that My churches are empty.  It is the same with My friends.  I have very few friends who love Me for who I am.  How this hurts My humble heart!”

 

God, Your Loving Father

June 16, 2012

          “The vivid colors of this new day are displayed lovingly before men.  Will they notice My attention to detail?  Will they hear the robin sing outside the window?  Will they smell the air or hear the rustle of the trees?  Will they observe the beautiful flowers I have created for their enjoyment?

          The world is My gift to man.  Nature is an expression of My generosity.  I designed every leaf, every animal, everything you see before you.  It was with great pleasure that I prepared the earth for man. 

          I made the sun to set in vivid, spectacular arrays of color.  I made billowy clouds that lazily glide across the sky endlessly.  The shades of green in the grass and leafy trees are endless.  My wind brings life and movement to all that I have created. 

          To see an orange hanging on a tree, or a stalk of corn in the field – magically they all appear at harvest time.  The ocean never passes its shoreline; the snowy mountains lift their peaks to heaven, while the interior of the sea lives its own invisible life, a world within a world.

          I am God, and I am a great Artist.  I love to create and re-create.  I love to rejuvenate, renew and refresh all that exists.  I have made a beautiful playground for My children of earth.  I have adapted everything to their suitability.  I watch them, hoping they will see how much care I put into their surroundings. 

          To grasp the great significance of a loving God waiting for you to acknowledge His presence is a gift.  To respond to My love is eternal life, an eternity of awe and wondrous awakenings to all that I AM.

          I truly am all things to all men.  All men are a part of Me, a thought in My heart from all eternity.

          Why, men of earth, do you run from Me?”

 God,

Eternal Father of Wayward Children

September 8, 2005        

          “An empty heart must be filled by something.  Men’s hearts are filled with transitional goods.

          Become poor in spirit, empty of all you think you need, and let me become all in all to you.

          It is in your emptiness that I can work most effectively, in your humility that I can stoop to raise you up, and your obedient willingness that I can direct your paths.

          To care delicately for the things of God is a sacred art performed by holy and consecrated souls.  Like the wings of a butterfly, their spirits float over the things of this world, never stopping to land on them, but soaring ever higher in a beautiful dance of love for God and the angels.

          The souls of the righteous are so free and light.  They travel lightly in the heavenly realms.

          Sin deadens and drags a soul down to an earthly grave, a trudging through mud, as it were.  Life becomes complicated.  Gloom sets in. 

          Do not let life steal the joy of flying through the heavenlies.

          You are no longer of the earth.  You are heaven’s child, the King’s daughter.  Walk worthy of your calling.”

 

The True Jesuit, Jesus

 

 

August 31, 2005 

          “Man is born to die.  That is his ultimate reality.  The little block of time he holds in his hand is a great treasure to be multiplied into glory.  Man must use his time wisely.  He will give an account of every idle moment, every idle word.  Man resists this truth.  It is pure foolishness.

          All earthly things disintegrate.  They are temporary.  At death, all the earthly disappears.

          How can one become wise?  By meditating on this truth.  The spiritual is forever.  The earthly dissolves.

          Life is a matter of  ‘picking and choosing’.  Choose wisely.  Teach your body to obey your spirit.

          I value the eternal.  You must do the same.

          Ask the Holy Spirit for discernment to choose wisely.  Submit to Him in all things – this is your sanctification.”

The Wooer of Hearts