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For February 13, 1999 (Given on February 12, 1999)
TOUGH or Tender
ALONE or One
John 17:20-26
I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.Father,
I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see my glory
which you have given me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
Father, Upright One,
the world has not known you,
but I have known you,
and these have known
that you have sent me.
I have made your name known to them
and will continue to make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me
may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.
Jesus speaks: In religious orders there is a hard crust around many hearts. They do not freely admit what is the truth. They hide the truth, they wear masks.
I am not asking you to whine and lay yourselves bare before all men, I am asking you to lay yourselves bare before God and to intimately share yourselves with one another. How can you intimately connect when you wear a mask? For where does your mask start and where does it end? To hide the truth is not being holy when your secrecy is hurting the lives of others. A person in a family is not holy when they hide their problems, but inflict their pain and discontent on others.
I speak to you of transference. One believes he is calm. Therefore to maintain his "peace", he allows burdens to build and then at a certain point transfers these burdens to a willing, innocent party. People who do not express emotions are holding themselves in check.
The body was created by God with emotions. Anger in and of itself is not evil.
Persons who have learned to stuff negative feelings within themselves will find it very difficult to allow others to express normal negative feelings.
A person who has just lost a baby needs to cry and work through the sorrow and grief. A person entering a religious community will experience homesickness. It is natural to work through these emotions. To stuff natural feelings and not look at them truthfully is to live a lie. A superior that forces a person to hide all feelings of homesickness is leading the community in a dysfunctional way. I am not advocating the sister be crying to all about her homesickness. I am saying that when a sister enters a community the feelings of homesickness must be understood by her supporting sisters. She is to be encouraged and loved.
People who were forced to stuff feelings from dysfunctional homes and from religious communities and some other areas of living --- army, football, work experiences --- will have to go through a period of opening up themselves so that hidden feelings can be dealt with and handled according to God’s will.
It is not the will of the Father that people experiencing loss and trauma in their lives be tough and hide God-given emotions.
This is a fallacy when people are told to hide their feelings.
Expressing feelings can grow out of hand. One must be in touch with real feelings of disappointment and unmet needs.
Some people have learned to put themselves in a victim position. Incorrectly they see themselves as always being made the victim. They complain to everyone and cast a dark light on all they touch. They complain to get others to feel sorry for them. They may be able to cry at the drop of a hat and put on intense emotion.
There are two extremes: to close up and not express feelings; to express feelings about "events" that are not even occurring.
In silent prayer and in writing to Me, one sees clearly the inner self.
Every person is uniquely created by God. One person may be quiet, but to grow more fully in a relationship he may have to learn to trust an intimate other.
Man sometimes has a tendency to see things as all black and all white. Life often is not experienced in these absolutes. It is true you should not kill, you should not steal. It is not true that you never open up to any human person. There must be trust and love between fellows. There is not an absolute rule to live by in all of this. Every person must know what is God’s will for him.
Because you have lived in silence for many years and are now 80 years old, does not mean that your ways of living are perfect. Man is always in the state of becoming.
In many religious orders in which there is to be community and intimacy, people have stifled this oneness by the unspoken rules passed down from generations.
A community is to be a family of love. In many religious communities today the sisters have split because of the lack of community and are living individualistic kinds of lives. They are married to the community living as a single with no emotional ties.
Your world is operating much the same way. Many relationships are those primarily focused on physical intimacy and wanting in spiritual intimacy. After a few months the partnership cools off and soon a new partner is sought. But within the heart created by the Father is the desire for connection.
I speak now of your relationship with Me. In a recent newsletter of Father Carter, an article defines the difference between knowing Christ and knowing about Christ.
I wish that all priests that speak at Mass were speaking from their deep, personal love of Me. A holy priest explaining Scripture will send a piercing word into the heart already primed through consecration. The love of God will come through the lesson.
I do not restrict My priests to knowledge only of personal relationships with God. I wish them to engage in discussion of the Word and the Commandments with hearts filled with love from their deep, personal, intimate relationship with Me.
Deep love, that is what I wish.
What many men think about love of God is nothing compared to how it ought to be.
I want to possess their souls. I want to act on their souls with My most intimate love. I wish to reveal this love deeply in the Mass and Scripture. I wish that they be one in Me at every moment, that I live and dwell in them most intimately.
I want My people alive with the love of God within them.
I want them filled with the Spirit moving in them.
I want them to be true to themselves, to talk to Me, to make a list of all their faults and of the friends they have not forgiven and to ask for grace to deal with all of this in holiness.
I want the Gospel preached in word and work. (example)
I wish men to consecrate their hearts before Mass and to come to My altar to offer the purest sacrifice.
I wish LOVE, PURE, love. Wearing a mask, hiding your sins and your faults, not embracing yourself and seeking to be cleansed from your dysfunctional, imperfect ways will cause problems for you and others and will block the Spirit moving within as you attempt to be intimately united in great oneness with one another.
I give you the Commandments. You are all uniquely created, all coming from many imperfect schools of living.
Do you want to be one? Then you must live for the truth. Imperfections will cause the breakdown of the community unless they are recognized and dealt with.
Only God can help to heal wounds of the past.
You must live by the Blue Book messages.
I love you, I am Jesus.
February 13, 1999
Our children are hungry - who will feed Mary’s children?
Messenger: They are falling over in the streets. Children need food, children need to be told about God. Their hearts are shriveling in their chests.
Jesus is so loving and present and personal and revealing Himself in the deepest love in my heart, teaching me deep insights into His mysteries through mystical experiences with Him. He teaches me the thing we need is purity and love in our hearts, humility and oneness with one another, sharing our feelings and ourselves, working out problems in heartfelt love. Deep, deep union with Him depends on our hearts. So much is taught like a textbook. Christ loves us and He wants us to love Him. Oh, I am so pained in my heart for the way He has revealed Himself in deep ecstasies and agonies. Mary and Jesus have taken me in Their Hearts in the rosary and revealed Themselves to me in heartfelt love. Oh, our love with Jesus is active, not inactive and dry. He is a Person, He is alive, He is so different from what I have often been taught. I long for the moments when He possesses my soul and I am existent in a heightened state in Him. Come to me Lord and possess my soul. I live to be existent in God, to be one with Father, Son and Holy Spirit for all eternity.
Jesus speaks: "I AM ALIVE" "I AM ALIVE." "I am alive."
Q: How do I feel when we stop hourly and pray, even if only for a few moments?
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