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SLOWING DOWN TO BE WITH ME My wish for you today is that in coming to Me in Adoration you willfully slow yourself down. I want you to make extra effort to slow down your mind. It is racing like the motor of a speedboat. Take some time now. Slow down. I’ll wait for you. Letting go of your world and entering Mine requires disciplining your thought patterns by exercising your will, and slowing down these thoughts until they stop. You know exactly what I mean. Even as we are touching now, you can feel the pull of the thoughts of your world back to selfishness. You have won, My friend. The pull of those thoughts will lessen as we go on. I want all of your attention. I want you with Me free of all distractions.You are coming to Me now. You know it. You can feel the heat of My Most Holy Spirit. It is on the base of your neck. It is My response to your will’s request for help. I am slowing you down. You are emptying yourself so as to be fully present to We are one for a few moments. Welcome home. Just be with Me for a while. We will talk. Struggling to be with Me as you have just done is a willful act of love. It is a decision of your will to exercise its power over your entire being in order to focus all that you are on Me. Following though on that decision of the will is difficult at times, but well worth the effort. You will learn this. I reward such effort with My loving presence. I recognize the love implicit in your free will choice. You choose to just be with Me. You are raising your heart, mind, soul and will to Me. I bless this human act of love with My Sanctifying Grace. I lift you up to Me in My willful action of being with you. I share My love through the power of My Most Holy Spirit. These moments are sacred. When we touch, as we are right now, your soul and your entire being know you are in My Presence. It rests in the peace of My Presence. It is in awe of My love for you. Just be with Me, My friend. Let these loved filled moments restore your spirit. My grace is within you. I bring you to the Father in love. I touch your heart with a drop of blood from My Sacred Heart. It will wash over your entire being. You will know ever so deeply that I love you. Rest quietly. Experience My Presence in love deep within your soul. REMEMBER YOU ARE BETTER OFF WITH ME There is nothing that stands between us. I communicate with you regardless of your worthiness. I speak in you regardless of your questioning spirit. You question My forgiveness of you for sins of the past. You question My coming to you regardless of your feelings of worthlessness and spiritual weakness. You see I am the judge of your worthiness. I am the author of forgiveness. I come to you of My own free will. There is nothing you have done good or bad that either earns or forfeits My presence. You do not control these visits. If you did, you would be Me. To top that off you would be a punishing god. This is especially true where you are concerned. You have spent your whole life punishing yourself. You punish you because of your humanness. The time for punishment is over. I have come to bring you new life. In your perceived unworthiness, do you believe Me? Good! Then you shall live. I am the Resurrection and the Life. The time for weeping and mourning is over. There will be no dying, no weeping, and no mourning. They are banished ever more. Cheer up, My faith filled friend. Your days of mourning are over. You now walk with Me. As such, a sourpuss does not accurately reflect the new life My death and resurrection have brought to you. I know how foreign this is to you. You had such a harsh, negative, punishing god. That god is dead. You are now living in My true presence. This Presence does not depend on your feelings. In fact, the worse you feel because of your weaknesses as a human being and the more guilt you have for real or imagined offenses against Me, the more you walk with Me in My love. My Sanctifying Grace will wash away your tears, your guilt, and your feelings of unworthiness. These negative feelings indicate the depth of your sorrow about your real or imagined offenses of Me. That is precisely why I love you so much. You desire, unrealistically, to be a perfect model of sanctity. To do so, if it was humanly possible and it is not, would turn you into a wooden soldier with no humanity and with no heart. That person died with your false god. I have breathed new life into your soul by My Eternal, Forgiving, Redemptive Love of the truly human you. The robot is gone. The human, feeling person and the true you live on eternally in My love. Alleluia! Smile for Me, My friend. I love to see your gentle soul smile. I am aware of your pain in your life. Believe Me when I tell you, your pain will become less. Eventually I will bring you true happiness. It will be built on My love alive in your soul. Trust Me a little while longer. I know what I am doing. MY GRACE WAS, IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE SUFFICIENT FOR YOU You are in touch with Me once again, even though you do not think yourself worthy because of your tainted human nature. It strains trying to pull you away from Me. My friend you are worthy to be with Me not because of anything you have or have not done. You are worthy to be this close to Me and receive the gift of My words because I have deemed you so. I have chosen you. You have not chosen Me. You keep on thinking you must be perfect for Me to ever want to come to you. You are afraid of messing things up so as to lose contact with Me. My friend let Me say again, We are together in this way and in many other ways forever. There is nothing you have to do or be to 'win' My presence. You just be you. I'll just be Me. That's all. Relax and just be with Me. You remind Me of the hamster who, being taken out of its circular wheel, is terrified because it has no place to run. I've taken you off the merry go round of the world of man. I’ve brought you into My world of peace. I want you to just be yourself with Me. I want you to just be in My presence forever. The race is over. You crossed the finish line eons ago. Impossible as it seems, it is true. We are one forever. Now what are you going to do? You have no place to run. You have nothing to prove. You have no work that must be done. You can relax. Scary, isn't it? You'll get used to it. My grace was, is, and will always be sufficient for you. Well! Isn’t this interesting? You are here with Me. You are not angry, worried, concerned, fearful, distraught, despairing or upset. You could be if you let your mind run things. You are not. You have chosen not to focus on the negativity in your life. You have willed yourself to focus on Me. You are here. You are with Me. You have no expectations. You are telling Me by your actions, “Jesus, I’ll handle my crosses. They are a minimal compared to what you suffered. I am here before You because I love you. I want to do Your will just for today. I’ll face tomorrow and its concerns when tomorrow comes. I only have today. I give You my today. Do with me what You will. I love the prayer of Cardinal Mercier, ‘Holy Spirit! Give me your orders just for today. Give Me the grace to follow your orders just for today. I also ask you to give me the grace to accept whatever You allow to happen to me today.’ ” My friend, you are quite special. I love you for your special devotion and dedication to Me. You do not even know what you are asking. You do not know what I will do. You sit here writing. You are waiting on My will for you. I tell you now, Mr. Mustard Seed. You have moved more than a mountain. You have moved Me to tears of joy at your faith. I bless you. Stop typing and just be with Me, My special one. CONGRATULATIONS! I come to you this morning. I bless you with My peace. You are ever so faithful to Me. There is little to say. Your being here in peaceful, quiet meditation says it all. It is obvious. You have chosen to walk arm in arm with Me through eternity. My friend, you are as welcome as sunlight after a prolonged period of rain. We are one for a while once more. I am so pleased with you, My friend. Despite all adversity you are still coming to Me. Just being with Me is the answer. It heals of what ails you. What you are saying by being with Me in the silence of your soul is, "Jesus, I leave it all up to you. You know all of My concerns. I simply and trustingly place them all in your hands. I know all of My concerns have always been in your hands. Jesus, I trust in you." Congratulations! You have just passed My final exam for you. Your cap and gown are on order. I will let you know when and where to pick them up. MY TIME WILL BECOME YOUR TIME You've just adjusted the clock setting on your computer. You returned it three hours to be the "right time". Do you see how relative man's time is? It was constructed to decipher each day’s sequence of light and dark. It was then adjusted by time zones to follow night and day all over the world. Ingenious, isn't it? What would happen to this time setup if I decided to eliminate the sun and make earth dark always or vice versa? Wouldn't that be something? What would happen to days, weeks, months, and years? Clocks would be useless. Calendars would go out the window. If sun ruled twenty-four hours a day, sunbathers would be crusty and crisp like well done bacon. What would happen to three meals a day? Even the term day would be meaningless. What chaos there would be! When would people sleep? I bet they'd pray for clouds and rain just to blot out the sun in some manner. My friend, I am the author of everything. Thank Me that I am a God of order. I created day and night. I inspired man/woman to create a mechanism to relate to this order, i.e., time. I created land and sea, sky and earth, man and woman, and all creatures and life sustaining nourishment. There was no big bang. It did not take seven days. I do not measure things according to your schemas. I have My own set of schemas. You are just beginning to get in touch with them. When you know Me just a little better, you'll wonder at My love for all, since, in your human ways, you've messed up Paradise. No matter! I am recreating paradise on earth even as you write My words to you. Welcome to My new world even though you do not know what it is like. You are bound by time. I am not. Death is merely a removal of the constraints of time. Time will be expendable shortly for all who live in My world and exist in the world of man. Mark My words. Time has just about outlived its usefulness. My world will no longer wait in the wings for time to pass. I am coming sooner than you think. In My time, I am already here. You have already crossed over to My world and My time by the gift of My redeeming grace. You, and all of My friends, have eschewed the world of man and all of its trappings. You are living in My world and in My eternity where time is extraneous and meaningless. In your time you will come to understand what I mean and then you will rejoice for all eternity.
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