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Given June 16, 2016
In the Month of the Sacred Heart
R. Dear God give me the grace to write
for You today.
Jesus: The world is bleeding and My
Movement is to reach the far
ends of the earth to help renew
the Church and the world.
The life of a child is so precious,
but think of the souls going to
hell with the evil in the world.
I call out to spread My
Movement and to do as I ask
because you love God, you love
souls –
You see yourself as the Spouse
of Jesus.
People who call themselves by
vocation as the Spouse of Jesus
are to be in love with God,
so much to love to serve
their beloved –
People who love someone else
give love to the other –
It is far better to love than to
hold onto anger and darkness,
power and control.
I have all the Power and when
you love, you have My Might and
My Power behind you.
Satan brings false power –
there can be a nervous energy
that comes from one stirring the
pot, but they are not in their
heart. Love is kind, Love
finds a way, Love is not
argumentative to start a fight,
love respects authority –
love knows no bounds,
love knows one's place.
Your life is lived to grow
in relationship – to learn to
give and take and work to
bring fruit to the table –
Only a fool holds on to the
darkness, stirs the pot and
when the light tries to get through
to build My Kingdom – they
stomp on it –
Their daily dish is darkness
and their hearts seek power
for themselves and not light –
I am the way, the truth and
the life.
Those who live in Me – live
to love – walk in the light –
R. Life is about working together in
relationships with God we do His will so
we don't hurt our relationship with Him
and if we do sin, act unloving to God
and others. We tell God we are sorry, with
a firm purpose of turning away from that
which caused us to sin and making
reparation for the damage it causes –
because hurting the Plan of God, hurting
others in meanness and selfishness
and not mending the fence destroys
relationships.
God has made it men and women are
to marry and if they have children they
must work together raising the children
for the sake of their relationship in union
with God, for the sake of the children
and teaching them about justice and
fairness and rules and obedience
and most of all in teaching them
about love –
Love helps everything grow –
God gives us a heart and He wants us to
grow in relationships and love. God commands
us to love Him first and our brothers as
ourselves. Love is kind and love works to
resolve difficulties in an attempt to be
fair and just and to help people to be
able to grow, to work together in this Plan
of God.
Abuse is used when a person is not loving
and opposes God's will and uses games,
power, whatever to act out darkness.
Inside of us there can be more and more
light, the more we try to work in relationships
with God and others. Relationships take work.
Relationships with God comes in going to Him –
loving Him, working with God and His plan
for our life – Day in and day out – like a
relationship that grows interiorly and as we
work in love with others – seeing the beautiful
gifts God has given us, thanking Him, depending
on Him in great suffering, abiding by His
rule of love when others are mean and
try to hurt us.
Jesus shows us love and shows us how
much He loves by His giving for our sins
to His death on the cross. Jesus shows us
His love in the Resurrection. God gives us
a sharing in His life in baptism where we
can know and love supernaturally –
where He elevates our knowing and loving
capacity. Where He gives us the gift of faith
to see through the Father's eyes His plan
for us, where we can believe in God
and His ways even when we don't see Him.
Why would anybody shun relationships with
God when it is God's plan?
But a person can be so settled in and they feel so
dark inside from pushing God and others
away – it is just a habit, it is from
the temptation of the devil to be mean and
to want control and to stir the pot – look
for drama and attention and control men
in anger and jealousy and envy and
pride.
I watched a television series and there was the
contrast of a man who loved, was a faithful
friend and married a faithful loving wife.
There was a man who married the x-girl
friend of the nice man. This man was evil –
in secret he manipulated events - ordered others
to cause good men mishap and even death –
All so he could have power.
He had a hard jaw, was suspicious even
of his own wife and he hated. It was
brought out – his whole life was centered
in meanness, tricks, evil and hate –
He had lots of secrets with men he used under
him to force his dirty work and manipulate
lives. His jealousy and hatred for the good man
grew despite all efforts of that man and
his wife to help people – to have peace – to
be faithful – to be a friend –
the evil guy went behind the good man's
back getting things to fail for the good guy – anybody
that was his friend, related to him etc.
It the end the evil man's wife died young
and he was left bitter, angry and he had
nothing but his anger and his power forced on
innocent others.
Some people had not money for food and
he didn't care – he tried to have them arrested
for doing something wrong to get food to feed
their children, when he hurt their jobs
through some maneuver and took their
money and their mortgaged homes –
he owned the bank and he wanted to rule
EVERYBODY – make all banks go out
of business, all places of work fail unless
he owned and controlled everybody and they
were under his power –
The question is – if you raise to the top through
cheating and hurting others –
when you get there what will you do –
continue in power evil habits of making
others suffer while you just get
darker and darker –
We see Our Lady of Fatima who came and
gave the direction about Conversion,
about the Two Hearts, about
repentance and sacrifice –
and she warned if we ignore her
we would have World War II.
From what I saw of the TV series no one
could have touched that man's heart – he walked
in deeper and deeper darkness and his
actions gave way to greater and greater
evil deeds. His jaw was stiff and it was
all about his power.
The other man was a friend to so many
men – always helping the ones in need
and he had lots of friends because
he stood for what is right –
When the series ended I saw how many people's
lives suffered throughout the whole show as
the man who was evil and walking in darkness
carried the thread that wove disaster for so
many as he operated in secret behind their
backs manipulating and hating.
In contrast the man and his wife of goodness
showed how they built up so many men's
lives and families and home and communities –
how many people were helped by him –
how the wife lost her own baby to sickness
because she helped a family in need that was sick.
The man and his wife who was a real friend
and happy and an instrument of light was
guided by love and what was fair and
just and he helped people because he had
a big heart.
What I saw at the end of the series is
how many people suffered at the hand
of one selfish man who operated his
selfish kingdom on power and hatred and
how destructive to so many people were
the deeds he did in darkness and hatred.
We see Mary's warning at Fatima and how
they ignored her – we see the destruction
of 66,000,000 lives at the hand of Hitler.
We know through salvation history – we
can follow Jesus, walk in the light –
work in relationships – obey His commandments
of love.
Or we can find a nitch – raise to the
top – seek power and be run by hatred
and watch so many lives be hurt by
our life when God commanded us to love.
We should have learned a big lesson in
World war II with Hitler. We were warned by Our
Lady of Fatima, we were told what to do.
Men who seek power in an unlawful way
stepping on people's heads, punishing others,
using their job to make others be
under them keep walking in greater and
greater darkness and what happens to a
man who walks in darkness with a
heart of hate.
God is all just. God will judge us rightly.
God has commanded us to love Him with our
whole heart, our whole soul, our whole
being. God commanded we love our neighbor
as ourselves.
God has all the power – If we want
to do a work for God we must obey
authority because God works in order,
in structure, He demands men to
be under others and to be a leader has a
great responsibility under Him and
to effect others' lives as a leader we are
to be like Christ –
Christ died for our sins –
Christ wants unity among men –
Christ is love –
We have a choice to learn how to be under
God's feet, to live in justice, to be
sorry for sins, to work with others in
the light building the Kingdom of God.
to try to make sure we are on the top –
we control everything –
We make others subject to us while
we are unjust in what we do –
And we can walk in pride –
like many men in salvation history –
who have now died and went
somewhere depending on what
they did here in obeying God and
being sorry for their sins and begging
for mercy –
A man in darkness with a dark heart,
angry and jealous and seeking
power for power sake to rule
in hatred can hurt all he touches.
A man in light – working on his relationship
with God – working in earnest with
others can build a kingdom of light –
he walks in the light –
That is why Mary appeared in Clearwater
to build up the people of
the earth walking under Jesus –
Who can get inside a heart a measure
how light or dark it is?
Only God.
What does it profit a man to gain
the whole world and lose
his soul?
God puts us in relationships with
others to learn to love – to work
in love for the building of the Kingdom
of God –
How many times in the scripture it
speaks of hard hearts,
of folly,
of the darkness –
The blind do not see –
A man chooses his path and when
he chooses darkness – a great
grace may be given to get him
to change –
like St. Paul –
but man has a choice and when
he is given opportunity and grace
from God to make reparation
and change –
He can choose his darkness and power
and refuse the grace given –
We can never live the days of our
lives again –
When we go to bed they are gone –
And God will judge us on how
we loved and lived and
served Him in love –
Heaven is for lovers –
We have a responsibility to spread these
prayers giving devotion to the
Two Hearts of love –
People can have all kinds of energy to
fight when they walk in darkness –
To provoke others and to see them
fall when they want power –
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. P.60-61
136. THE FOURTH DAY
A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS
The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human naturePRAYER. The usual preparatory prayer.
window at a former Jesuit Seminary
137. FIRST PRELUDE. This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.
138. SECOND PRELUDE. This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.
139. THIRD PRELUDE. This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
FIRST PART
THE STANDARD OF SATAN
140. FIRST POINT. Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.
141. SECOND POINT. Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.
142. THIRD POINT. Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.
The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
SECOND PART
THE STANDARD OF CHRIST
143. In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.
144. FIRST POINT. Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.
145. SECOND POINT. Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.
146. THIRD POINT. . . .
end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
R. God is light and in Him is no darkness –
God is love.
We have a free will – to learn to obey God
and walk in love and obedience
and getting along
Or run our own show
and want men under our feet –
When a man raises to the top by
darkness –
the darkness doesn't stop –
the hatred doesn't stop –
over a life-time how many
lives were torn apart by
men seeking power with
hatred in their hearts –
God is love –
God must rule so we have His Might
behind us –
God has all the power –
Heaven is a reward promised to
those who love and serve
the Lord.
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Given March 21, 2014
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Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
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24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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