Shepherds of Christ          Daily Writing

June 4, 2007

June 4, 2007

                Love conquers all

                But - you must live
                    in the truth —

                The truth as God has
                    told us

                The truth about ourselves,
                    our past lives.

                The truth will set you
                    free.

                A man had a wounded heart and
                    he wanted to get married —
                he focused on how she would
                    give him all he wanted
                    and fix his wounded
                    heart —

                Soon they married and right
                    away he expected her to
                    be available for him —
                    loving him, admiring
                    him, fixing his meals,
                    candlelight and darning
                    his socks regularly.

                One morning as he dressed for
                    work, she was sleeping
                    late — he wanted bacon
                    and eggs and she
                    did not get up, next
                    he put on his socks
                    and a toe came forth —
                    he was enraged and
                    began to shout as she
                    slept

                He said - "I gave you myself and
                    you married me, now why
                    have you let my socks
                    disintegrate like this
                    and my morning breakfast
                    was not served."

                She stood up from the bed and
                    said — "You married me,
                    I am your wife, but
                    I am tired and I just
                    don't want to be in
                    charge of your holey socks.

                    Now let me be, honey and
                go to work, I love you, though."
                He couldn't believe it — he was
                more angry than before, but
                now late for his big meeting.
                His day was interrupted by his
                constant anger for her lack
                of love and attention. Next he
                went home at dinner and
                she was at the YWCA working
                out.

                I little note was on the refrigerator —
                hope you don't mind, I just
                needed to unwind at the YWCA.
                See you later - please eat by
                yourself, I love you very much.

                    He was more angry, he thought
                how his mom wore an apron and
                his dad the pants and she waited
                on him hand and foot — he was
                not appreciative of her attention
                either. He thought - men give
                orders, women obey and serve.
                Here she was doing what she wanted
                and not what he wanted and he
                had a marriage contract.

                    What does the marriage contract
                mean? To some it means - "Lucky
                you, I married you to love me"
                To others they may say I married
                because I wanted to be loved.
                I was looking for love and you
                said yes.

                    Oh to others they may love
                the other so much and want them
                to grow to be more loving and
                to be united.

                    A book was written, The Dance
                of Intimacy another book
                The Dance of Anger.

                    When people marry, men and
                women - they bring unmet
                needs and wounds and betrayals
                and thwarted skills to the
                relationships — Rules of relating
                from imperfect others. They may
                be very strong willed and hard
                to get along with. Some may
                work hard for years in a marriage
                and after twenty years of trying
                and giving and loving — one
                day they just leave because the
                other is just continually hurting
                them and robbing them of their
                life with games of manipulation.

                    Being in a relationship takes
                    (1) LOVE
                    (2) An attitude to see it through
                    (3) Security
                    (4) Commitment
                    (5) Trust
                    (6) Willingness to Change

                Now look at this
                    here is a community
                    Mary does the Jones dance
                        learned from mom and dad

                    Carol does the Smith dance
                        learned from mom and dad
                        beginning at birth when
                        she can't remember —
                        who taught her the steps —
                        but dad was angry a lot and
                        mom threw pans

                    Joe learned the Adams dance and
                        dad was compulsive in
                        what he did — he talked a
                        lot explaining how everything
                        in his life was Joe's mom's fault

                    Betty learned the Carter dance
                        mom and dad never talked much
                        dad told mom what to do and she did
                        it — when Betty got married
                        she said
                        "no man is telling me what
                        to do"
                        When she married she stuck
                            to this until she ended
                            up with a separation

                    Jerry was in the Susa family and
                        every Sunday, mom fixed
                        the food and nobody missed
                        the Sunday family day —
                        it was a rule

                    Well now Carol, Joe, Betty, Mary,
                Jerry all lived together in a community
                like religious as members of a
                ministry. None were married so
                they knew life from what they learned
                from their family so they all tried
                to dance on the same floor with
                different dances —

                    Did you ever see such silliness

                    Nobody even looked like they
                knew anything anybody else
                was doing.

                    Every hour they were permitted
                to change the record in the
                jute box and the record Jerry
                had explained how to do the
                Susa dance — so they were all
                supposed to do that, but nobody
                would do any dance but
                their own.

                    Well we are all imperfect human
                beings. I think of Fr. Carter's theology
                class and he would explain baptism —
                he said that baptism elevates our
                knowing and loving capacity —
                I know in baptism - the Father, Son
                and Holy Spirit live in my graced soul.
                The Spirit dwells in me — God
                lives in me —

                God is love.
                God is unity.

                For sinful, selfish man God
                    gives man Himself in the
                    Eucharist to nourish the life
                    given at baptism.

                    You know God wants to set the
                captives free —

                    This happens when we do God's
                will in love.

                    Happiness is found in loving
                according to God's will.

                    IN this month of the Sacred Heart
                and now approaching the Feast of
                the Body and Blood of Jesus what
                would God have to say to Joe and Betty and
                Jerry, Mary and Carol.

                    He might say — hey human creature
                you know God made your heart so it
                can only be happy if your primary
                focus is the love of God. I watched
                you the first month of your married
                life and one set of couples tried to
                turn their marriage into lives like
                their parents — others tried to turn
                their lives in rebelling to be the
                opposite of their parents - thinking
                this was the answer.

                    Being baptized raises your
                loving capacity to be more like God

                You must look at the first commandment

                        1.  I am the Lord your God; you shall not have strange gods before Me
               

                When you are hungry — you want to eat
                Your hungry soul craves Me

                Song: God's Love

                Song:  Why Do We Hurt the Ones We Love

                Love is a gift I give you —

                Your hearts crave to be more a
                    lover like God — not your
                    imperfect parents

COWS GIVE MILK MAMA's of Newborn babies                give milk if                nursed

                Nursing a baby is a special gift
                    of bonding between mother and
                    child.

                Jesus was born in a stable with
                    cows, bare wood.

                Jesus died on a cross, bare wood.

                Here is a message I got January 5, 1997.

Excerpt from January 5, 1999 Daily Message

Messenger:  On January 5, 1997, I was wakened by Our Lord and He was mumbling as He was around my bed as He did on October 8, 1997, when He delivered the "Seedless, Barren, No Fruit on the Vine" message.

    I heard Him and He repeated the words over and over again. I had a copy of the all-night message on the floor, I jumped from the bed and began to write around the message, for it was the only paper available and He was speaking very plainly and direct. I wrote this message in the margins of the paper. He kept repeating "BABY, BARE BABY, LAID BARE".

Message of January 5, 1997

Jesus speaks:  Open yourself, Oh Jerusalem, your time is come you will be a light to the people in darkness, many will walk whence you come and the earth will be shakened and the light will come across a dark sky and enlighten their minds.

    Oh stiff-necked people, you are so stiff in your ways, let the spirit envelope you and lead you on your way.

    A country of stiffs, a people of planning and prodding, of deliberating and wondering—you lack faith, Jerusalem, you lack faith in God.

    Oh walk naked into the cold night, you are cold in your hearts and naked in your clothing—I cloth you with glory, I light your face with light, but you turn your cheeks to the darkness and stay stiff-necked in your hearts. Oh cold and dark hearts, reach for the light that you may know the glory that awaits the sinners and enlightens their minds.

end of excerpt January 5, 1999 Daily Message

John 17: 21-23

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.

                    I want My precious people
                to be united in love in My
                Sacred Heart and My Mother's
                Immaculate Heart.

                    Souls are hungry for My love.
                Feed the hungry souls. Tell
                them about the Blue Books —

                    I give these writings to feed
                the hungry souls.

John 15: 1-8

I am the true vine,
and my Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in me that bears no fruit
he cuts away,
and every branch that does bear fruit
    he prunes
to make it bear even more.
You are clean already,
by means of the word
    that I have spoken to you.
Remain in me, as I in you.
As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself,
unless it remains part of the vine,
neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine,
you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me, with me in him,
bears fruit in plenty;
for cut off from me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
is thrown away like a branch
—and withers;
these branches are collected
    and thrown on the fire
and are burnt.
If you remain in me
and my words remain in you,
you may ask for whatever you please
and you will get it.
It is to the glory of my Father
    that you should bear much fruit
and be my disciples.

   
                projecting hurt, anger on others
                controlling everything around
                    them or trying to — so
                    they don't get anything
                    unexpected —

                This hurts trust

                This hurts spontaneity

                This keeps you rigid, tense

                HARMONY

                DISCORD    playing ugly
                                        music

                Play My record - mine is right - Oh why
                            is everybody running away

                Song:  Live This Day                               

                TO BE HAPPY

                        WE ARE CALLED

                TO LOVE GOD

                        FIRST

                    everything works
                        from this

                Sufferings are apparent

                Love is real

2 Corinthians 5: 14-21

For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died; his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life. 

    From now onwards, then, we will not consider anyone by human standards: even if we were once familiar with Christ according to human standards, we do not know him in that way any longer. So for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is there to see. It is all God's work; he reconciled us to himself through Christ and he gave us the ministry of reconciliation. I mean, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not holding anyone's faults against them, but entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

    So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were urging you through us, and in the name of Christ we appeal to you to be reconciled to God. For our sake he made the sinless one a victim for sin, so that in him we might become the uprightness of God.

Romans 5: 5-11

and a hope which will not let us down, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. When we were still helpless, at the appointed time, Christ died for the godless. You could hardly find anyone ready to die even for someone upright; though it is just possible that, for a really good person, someone might undertake to die. So it is proof of God’s own love for us, that Christ died for us while we were still sinners. How much more can we be sure, therefore, that, now that we have been justified by his death, we shall be saved through him from the retribution of God. For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more can we be sure that, being now reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. What is more, we are filled with exultant trust in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have already gained our reconciliation.

 

2 Corinthians 3: 15

As it is, to this day, whenever Moses is read, their hearts are covered with a veil,

 

2 Corinthians 4: 1, 3-6

Such by God's mercy is our ministry, and therefore we do not waver  

If our gospel seems to be veiled at all, it is so to those who are on the way to destruction, the unbelievers whose minds have been blinded by the god of this world, so that they cannot see shining the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. It is not ourselves that we are proclaiming, but Christ Jesus as the Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. It is God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' that has shone into our hearts to enlighten them with the knowledge of God's glory, the glory on the face of Christ.

 

Matthew 5: 20-26