November 29, 2011

          “The days pass so quickly.  Time in life’s moments never returns.  What do you spend your time on?  Time is an investment into your eternal inheritance.  You are gathering great jewels of glory for eternal happiness during these seemingly mundane passing moments.

          Only love gives value to your actions.  Any task carried out in great love procures heaven’s treasures.  It is not the task.  It is the love put into the task performed.

          Can you remember to love your Jesus throughout the day?  Can you take more control of your thought patterns as they wander in meaningless chatter?  Can you bring your thoughts back to Jesus, your all?

          As you walk serenely through your day loving Me, I pour out gifts upon your loved ones.  The salvation of souls is bought by loving Me.  As you send up loving thoughts to My gentle heart, My radiance touches your loved ones.  I glow, as it were, as I am loved intensely.  This glow is spread out over all the earth.  It brightens the darkness.  I let My heart fall upon the land and My heart is My love.

          My special friends know how to steal treasures from My heart.  They know how to speak to me tenderly and reverently.  They lift their eyes of love to Me throughout the day and I immediately respond.  It is My joy to answer their prayers.  I long to share My life of loving generosity with them.

          Oh, My children, if you only knew how your love touches My heart…!  I am Love and I respond to love’s calls joyously.

          Call upon your loving Savior and see what marvels He will do in your lives.”

 Jesus,

Lover of Souls

November 10, 2011

          “The days advance rapidly.  Time seems to be accelerating in the world, for men are rushing madly through their days.  Love for the sacred and the solitary moments are gone from the minds of men.  They rush on to new discoveries, evading the most precious gifts, the time spent in nourishing the soul.

          Moments spent in solitude before Me shape saints, holy souls smitten by God’s love.  The world is no more alluring and glamorous to them.  It is fake, sterile, and passing.  Their life lies in their spirit, which they cultivate daily as a beautifully manicured and watered garden.  They rest daily in this garden of peace, enjoying conversations with the Master, while the world rushes by them madly, pursuing hopeless dreams.  These souls are hidden in the heart of God.  He has a special trysting place for them in His heart.  Each day their intimacy grows until one day He must enfold them in His arms and take them up to heaven where the intimacy never ceases.

          Earth is only a waiting place.  Souls are waiting to embrace eternal life.  They are choosing their destiny during this test trial on earth.  God has made the test almost too easy for them.  He asks for a willing heart, an open mind, an eagerness to trust his will.  Works and activities flow from this loving engagement of the soul with God.

          God is the eternal loving parent.  The welfare of His children is everything to Him.  All He sends is tailored to their best interests, to grant them holiness and great joy.  God is looking for little lambs to follow Him in the pastures of peace.  God is good; therefore, all He does is good.

          Come to the good God.  Place your life in His hands.  His love will radiate through you.  You will become peace to the world, a little lamb of peace.”

Jesus, Shepherd

November 7, 2011

          “Each day is a beautiful color woven into the tapestry of your life.  The more colors I weave into your tapestry, the more beautiful it becomes.  You will wear this lovely wedding garment in heaven one day.  How surprised you will be when you truly understand what threads I used to make such a glorious garment.

          The fine silk thread of daily fidelity, your faithfulness to prayer and daily reading, is a fine gold thread that will gleam throughout the garment.  The opalescent pearl of compassion and mercy will cast a shimmery veil, beautiful to behold.  Pearls of great price will be delicately placed, a feast for the eyes - the pearls of kindness, sweetness, courtesy, meekness, humility, and penance.  Then the beautiful jewels of the virtues – the rubies of repentance, the topaz stones of obedience, the sapphires of docility to My will, the diamonds of your great and devoted love for Me.

          On your head will be a diadem of illustrious beauty – the tiara of the adopted child of God, taken from earth among men to exist for the praise of My glory.  On your hands will gleam the diamonds of good works, hands raised in holy prayer, hands raised in blessing others.

          Your feet will be shod in heavenly sandals, flowers of great colors and fragrances - your swift steps to aid others, your steps to church, to prayerful moments with Me.

          I am the great Tailor of heaven.  I adorn My children with beautiful garments of honor.  Let Me dress you in the greatest garment – Myself.  “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.”  My splendor will flow to the nations as I walk this earth again through My chosen ones.”

Jesus,

Tailor of Beauty

November 4, 2011

          “How rare the souls that treat Me as if they can visibly see Me!  “My delight is to be with the sons of men”, to converse with them, to laugh with them, to love them, to share life’s moments with them.  I wait hopefully for souls to respond to My great love for them, yet I wait in vain for so many souls.  I am not in all their thoughts.  My form on the cross before them isn’t seen anymore.  I am a commonplace part of the décor of the church.  They have eyes to see, yet they do not see.  I want to be known and understood by them, but they are not interested.  How few are My true friends!  How alone I am in so many churches, waiting for My children to visit Me.  I am truly present in the Tabernacle, but faith has dimmed.  Souls do not care.

          I have prepared a great banquet for My children, but they declined the invitation.  Other pressing matters consume their time.  I am relegated to the last place in their lives.  Yet I wait for them.  I do not rescind the invitation.  My doors are always open, no matter how many times I am spurned.  Love cannot help but love.

          To be consumed into love means constant self-sacrifice for the one loved.  Do you truly want to die to self?  Then run into Love’s arms.  When you become transformed into Me, you also will become a sacrificial victim, for souls will also spurn your love.  You will remain vulnerable and open, receiving all in tranquility.  You will turn no one away.  Love is incessant giving, infinite giving.  There is no end to the gift of love.  There is no turning away in true love.  Love stays and loves while being bruised and rejected.  Reciprocity is not a condition in true love.

          Love is an enduring fragrance which captures hearts.  Every soul is captivated and enchanted when they encounter God-Love.  “God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son…”

          Love is infinite Gift.”

Jesus,

Love Incarnate

October 31, 2011

          “Will you clasp My hand this day and let Me lead you to My Father’s house?  Have you not yet realized your weakness and poverty?  The way of the cross is narrow and very difficult.  You need a guide to lead you.

          I have not asked you to travel the way of the cross alone.  I have promised to be with you all the days of your life.  Why do you run ahead on your own when the path is full of dangerous perils?

          You must stop and ponder the path.  Can you move on victoriously on your own?  No; you will inevitably fall.  You must place your small hand in Mine to walk through the landmines and pitfalls.  I will shelter you from the wickedness in high places ready to attack your spirit.

          With the confident trust of a child, place all your hope in Me.  Stop relying on your own pitiful resources.  You have none.  Become a child again.  Let yourself be led in docility.  Entrust all to My care.  I know the Father’s will in all that happens to you.  It is time for you to release your hold on everything, even your spiritual goods which you cling to very tightly.

          I am the goal of your spirituality.  All the means point to the end – “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”  It seems to take many years for a soul to realize that it is in losing your well-built identity and becoming a helpless child that you will become a spiritual giant.

          Only children enter the kingdom of God in passionate abandon.  Their simplicity opens heaven’s gates.  They bound into the land of glory unafraid.

          You cannot make progress on your own without My help.  Let Me live in you this day.  Let Me run to heaven joyfully within you.  Let Me teach you kingdom truths.  Like the Pied Piper, I lead My children home to the sound of heavenly music.”

Jesus,

Lover of Children

 

October 10, 2011

          “A soul seeking heaven can be compared to a baby bird waiting to learn how to fly.  The bird has wings but does not yet know how to use them.  Only in growth and maturity does his ability to flow come.  The spiritual life also grows and matures.  Each day brings its own lessons.  How you respond to all that comes into your life is the yardstick of your growth in holiness.  If you respond to grace, more grace is given to you.  If the lesson isn’t learned, it is reworked into another trial, another life lesson.

          The Master is continuously training His students.  It is the school of sanctification.  As you sit silently absorbing the Master’s lectures, you not only learn the facts, you become the lesson.  God’s truths permeate you and you steadily become transformed into an icon of holiness, the Master’s ideal.  Jesus is preparing saints for heaven, holy men and women, profoundly humble, energized by the Holy Spirit, filled with God’s love.  This is the goal of life – being prepared in holiness to enter the eternal heaven.

          Never despise the little daily happenings in your life.  These are your daily lessons from heaven.  This is your preparation for your day of judgment, the day your Master so longs for – to embrace you and give you your final certificate of approval.  He longs to spend eternity in your company.  He has opened the door to heaven.  You must clad yourself in your wedding garment to enter the festivities.

          Let Me walk you to heaven.  Place your hand in mine, open your ear to listen, turn away from the frivolous things of earth, make holiness your priority, and respond to heaven’s calls.  Let the Holy Spirit form you into a saint bound for heaven, your eternal home of blissful joy.

          Keep the focus, My children.  Train your eyes to look up to God looking upon you with such fatherly love.  He will give you all that is necessary to pass through the golden gates.  He loves you dearly.”

Jesus, God’s Son

 

October 4, 2011

          “No time spent with Me is ever lost.  These silent moments of instruction are building your heavenly temple, the place where I reside in your heart.  You begin to sense the atmosphere of heaven, the sublime stillness and peace that delights every soul purified of earthly greed.

          In the silence, you hear My voice clearly and distinctly.  You receive My nearness.  You come to know My heart’s longings.  I desire to inundate My dear children with My glorious graces. 

          I need beautiful saints to convert the world.  Let Me make you beautiful with the beauty of heaven by spending time attentively in My presence.  There is no better beauty secret on earth.”

Jesus,

Beauty Salon of Love