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August 26, 2000 - Anniversary of first Mass in China, Indiana
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.
Messenger: Include Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in 6:20 prayers.
Messenger: At the end of January, 1992, I was given a message from Jesus that I would suffer.
Next, I lost my voice and I had trouble breathing. It was the key that helped me let go of my teaching jobs in colleges, my position in a special choir, and my job as organist and choir director at a small church.
Here is a letter I began to write to Jesus and the message God gave back to me.
My first letters with Jesus were a lot of dialogue. I would write and He would speak to me as I opened up my heart to Him.
Many times He woke me in the night with a lengthy message.
This is a letter I wrote to Him March 17, 1992, when I was having a lot of trouble breathing and talking.
He was working in my suffering to help me let go of all I was doing so I could be His messenger. It was a great time of trial when I couldn't breathe very well or couldn't use my voice very well. All my jobs depended on it. It was from this cross that I was given my voice to do what I am doing today. I had to surrender to His plan-I couldn't use my voice as I had done in the past.
When I finally quit most everything about 1 1/2 years later, I had my voice to do His work, to do this job.
In this suffering, He led me to do His will.
St. John the Baptist's father lost his voice.
St. John the Baptist's mother was barren.
St. John the Baptist was the 'VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE DESERT'.
I prayed to do His will and He helped me find His will. Through great suffering and surrender I was given greater life in Him.
The story of my struggle in doing His will and losing my voice is accounted in an entry in Blue Book III which appears at the end of this message.
Jesus wanted the message of March 17, 1992, presented today, that we can carry it with us and live by it. We must surrender and let Him run our lives and do His will. Some of the greatest trials are the way He leads us on the right path for us.
March 17, 1992
Note: I couldn't breathe again. From my notebook I wrote:
Dear Jesus,
I am not feeling calm, I am so grateful for being able to breathe. I know an inner voice during the movie said, I will be okay. Please help me Jesus, I need you.
God: I am your God and I love you, you are precious to Me. Remember how I loved you to My death. This is the season of Lent, a time to look and listen and learn all you can about Christ and His passion. I am telling you of My great love for you and all My children. Hold close to Me and do not be tempted to go astray, keep your eyes fixed on the eternal end, the bright and beautiful light, your glory, for your reward will be great in heaven. Keep the glory of the Lord in heaven in front of your eyes.
Don't look for worldly pleasures and satisfaction here on earth. Love and give to others and forgive and know your reward will be great in heaven.
I will show you the path to follow. Listen attentively and be calm. In conflict don't react, practice removing yourself from that. It isn't necessary to criticize, to shame, to hurt, to bargain for who is right and who is wrong. Hold on to peace and love and joy and happiness. Hold My hand and see My light. See the big, big picture. The answers are in you, I love you and I will teach you what you need to know. Be still and listen, I want to instruct you, I am talking to you now in your heart. I love you always, stay close to Me and know I am your God.
Messenger: You are my God and You love me, I am Your temple. I know You go with me with Your rod and Your staff protecting me and giving me comfort and hope and love and joy and peace. The moments I spend now will be gone in 5 minutes.
I want to spend this time with You, I don't want to be anywhere else, I want to know Your presence , Your warmth, Your love.
God: You are powered by Me. You are My child, you are precious and you know it. You are special to Me, hold tight to Me. I love you, My chosen daughter.
Messenger: Create in me, Oh Lord, a CLEAN heart, Oh Lord--create in me a clean heart.
I offer up my suffering to You.
God, help me live my precious moments.
God, help me.
Thank you, I love you.
Walk in the Way of the Light
May 9, 1994 After Communion
Messenger: Our feet carry us about in this world. We do not think much about our feet and how they do this job.
I have received visions of feet. In 1978, when I received a gift from God, I saw a shoe and I heard the verse, "Walk in the way of the Light."
I have a free will. My path must be the path set by the Master. He leads, I follow. His ways are not always the ways I want to follow. I sometimes do not want to forgive. I do not want to let go of hurts when I have been wronged. I want to hold on and be angry. Walk in the way of the Lord! I do not want to obey when I have a letter that is not nice, but that I must deliver. I would rather be popular and not cause any discomfort. "Walk in the way of the Lord."
Is this the same as doing His Will? I wanted to sing in the choir at the Athenaeum. I liked it. I felt important. I was singing beautiful songs to God. He took my voice away! I finally saw what His Will was for me. I wanted something very much. He didn't want me there.
I can see now so many things I wanted. I wanted to play the music at daily Mass. 'What a good thing to do!', you say? He wanted me to go to Mass and listen to His words and spend time in adoration after Mass and write these letters.
I wanted to get my children through college. I continued to teach. I lost my voice and I was miserable. I wanted to spend my time with Jesus. I spent some time with Him, but I had to work, too. I couldn't talk so I wrote up long lectures and tried to make it work. It made me miserable. For two years and two months, my voice was almost entirely out of commission but I still received special recognition for teaching. I worked hard to do a good thing. Teaching is a good thing. He was calling me to be writing these letters. I did my will and wrote some, but it was misery. I couldn't breathe because my vocal chords would swell and I had trouble breathing. Did I listen? When do we listen?
God speaks in the inner promptings of our hearts. The more I listened, the more I heard, the more I realized that I must have no preconceived ideas of what is to happen. He directs me. I knew these things were good things. I knew I was doing His Will.
I was a teacher. I went to school all those years. I had to teach. It was right. But it wasn't His Will! I can't try to think and make sense out of what is a good thing. I have to listen and wait for His answer-when He gives it. I know in my heart what He is saying, like it or not. His Will is His Will, not mine. They might be the same, or they might be entirely different, but I have to do His Will!
His Will He makes clear in the inner promptings of my heart. He speaks directly to me. I must be still to hear. I have to pray every day to the Holy Spirit for His gifts. When He tells me His Will, I know it is what He wants me to do. I don't figure it out. I am told and I know I have to do it. Then He nags me until I do. To me it is like a toothache. It stops when I do His Will. It bothers me until I do it.
He told me this morning that I am not perfect. I was being pushed by my son and I got angry. Then I felt, "What is the use? I got angry. Now give it all up." He said, "You are not perfect. Say you are sorry and move on."
In my pride, I think I should be perfect and know all things and never be learning His way. His way He makes clear to us in the inner promptings of our hearts. I am human. I fall, I say I am sorry, I learn a lesson. I do not get angrier and keep on being nasty or mean and then say, "Well, this is the end of this." In humility, I say I am sorry and move on to serving our precious Lord Who loves us so. This is His way!
Jesus speaks: Walk in My way, My dear children. Walk. Your feet carry you down the road. Follow the road of the Master. If you take a bad turn, get back on the road. I am leading. I am waiting. I am walking with you where you walk. I never leave you. You move away from Me. I stay steadfastly by you.
Oh, child, be humble. Do not let pride and anger eat at your heart. When you are wrong, admit it and do My Will. I am calling you to follow Me. Follow My path. It is the only way to your happiness and peace of mind. Wherever you go, My sweet one, you never travel alone. I am with you. Love, love, love. Do not let Satan work in your head.
If I am telling you to do something, do it, even if it is unpleasant. This is what teaches you the way of the Lord. The more you obey Me, the more you hear Me. I am God. I do not necessarily communicate as you do. I may use your senses, but I do not need them to talk to you. I do not need words. I give you promptings. You know when I speak to you and you know you must follow.
Open yourselves up to Me. Pray to be open and to know how to listen to Me. I am God and I want to tell you all you need to know. No one can speak to you as I do in your heart. Come and be with Me in silence and let Me talk to you. I love you so, dear ones. I will never steer you wrong.
Messenger: He never told me, in the letters, to get out of the chorale. I had to hear it in my heart after much misery, as I was holding on. I went to the doctor. I took voice lessons (with no voice) for two years and two summers. I continued to take voice lessons with no voice! I took antibiotics, and could hardly breathe, but I kept teaching the next year. Did He tell me to quit? No, He waited until after I had quit and then said, "You will not have any problem with your voice if you do not teach."
He gives us promptings in our hearts. He wants us to hear with our hearts. He taught me about His ways in the letters. Things about my life I had to hear in my heart. He communicates in our hearts, directly to us. Doing His Will is doing His Will. Do we cover up what He says and do what we want? Every time I do not listen to Him I move farther from Him and I hear less because my pipeline is not clear.
I cannot disobey Him ever or I cannot stand it. If I don't do His Will, I am miserable. If the whole world hates me, I still want to do His Will.
Mary's Message from the Rosary of August 27,
1996Mary speaks: I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.
Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.
Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.
(End of Mary's Message)
MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY
AND THE WORLDI _________________ give my heart to
You Jesus and Mary on this day
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I promise to help spread the devotion to
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Q: How do you feel we can unite our hearts in deeper love with one another and in so doing help this world?
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