Title:  "There has been a loss of focus on the preciousness of family, of marriage, and a re-focus on self."

(Notebook 59, pp. 9--17)

Live  †  Jesus

St. Joseph, Monday, March 20, 2000

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
My Heart is warmed by the thought of Joseph.  He is the hand who has formed Me and guided Me into My Manhood.  It was from him I learned of headship, of true fatherhood.  So, let us discuss true fatherhood.  Let us discuss true husbandry.  Let us discuss the true importance of parent, of family.

God has created all things Good.  That there are problems among you now, is not an indication of failure from God, but of failures within humanity to follow the True Path, the Will of God.  God does not create, that mankind can recreate.  Man is created in God's Image and Likeness.  It is not for man ot recreate God's creation, and to claim it as his own.....which is lie, which is pride, which is wrong.  The problem is, that mankind has assumed a godly role.  It has raised itself up as a god in the Face of the True God.  It is an act of defiance being worn in a costume called "justice."  It is a lie.  It is a wrongful act.

God has created them male and female.  He has set them forth to be fruitful and to multiply.  As mankind has walked in God's Path, there has been a refinement, a bringing together under Law, God's Law, Natural and handed down through stone tablet.  To remain in God is to remain who you are, within the Law of God.  To bend this Law is to break the covenant between you and your God.

True Love must be part of every relationship.   Relationship is raised up with the Blessing Hand of your God and this is called marriage.  A woman leaves her father and mother and becomes one in the union of marriage with her husband.  This is a very special, sacred blessing given to mankind by God.....I speak thus, that the fact would be clear, undeniably understood, little one.

(Yes, my Lord.)

There can be problems within a person which can affect a marriage, but this does not diminish the purpose of marriage.  There are terrible crimes being committed in families this day.    There has been a loss of focus on the preciousness of family, of marriage, and a re-focus on self.  God gave His Only Begotten Son that you might be saved.....yes.....Sacrifice is an important step in humanity's entrance into True Life in God.

Fatherhood: it is to lead, to nurture by a Loving, guiding hand.  Motherhood:   it is to say "yes" to the needs of those in her care.  Parenthood:  it is to willingly sacrifice self for the needs of those who have come forth from the Love shared in Marriage.  Marriage is not a "right," little ones, but a great Gift into which you are drawn, according to God's Will, to partake in the act of creation, to bring forth from  Love, in Love, through Love, the presence of Unity and Love:  children.  Even through adoption.  I  know firsthand of adoptive Love.  I know and Love My father, Joseph.

What God has joined together, let no man pull asunder!  While you apply this to divorce, I see the broader picture, the one you are developing in this day.  God has created Marriage.  It is being torn asunder by man's desire for man, by woman's desire for woman, by flesh for flesh, by confused spirit.  What God has joined together, let no man pull asunder!  It is YOU who breaks the covenant of Life with Me!

Your God sees all, children!  Your God knows all, children!  I have seen you for all time before you were formed in your mother's womb!  Inclinations are not life, little ones.  Inclinations are often mankind's bow to self.  How you have been physically created:  man or woman, is by God's Perfect Hand.  What the world may see as less than perfect, is a problem of true focus on the part of the world.  For all things given by God are as Gift to assist you along your Path into Me.  Your life is your own and it is to be lived out within the perimeter of Law which God has given.   That you make free-willed choice other than that which is of God, is no excuse to condemn all of society by  forming society according to YOUR standard, little one.  It is for you to find a way to walk with God through life.  And to be comfortable in My Vision all the while.  For in the end, you will have no company but My Searching Light of Truth.  And then, by how you chose to live your life, you will receive Eternal Reward in My Heaven or eternal damnation in hell.

So now.....fatherhood, parenthood, motherhood, family, marriage.  These are Gifts from God.  Do not tear apart the Gift which has been given.  Open it tenderly and be in this Gift according to My Way.  Be in Me, according to My Standard, regardless of how you have been treated in the world, regardless of the harm which has come your way.

You are children of God.  You are My family.  I call you mother, brother, sister and together we will call.....Abba, Father!  With Me, in Me, I gift to you this right, this inheritance of children of God.  God is you Father.  My Mother is your own.  I am your Brother.  We are one.  In God.  In Me.  Do not break this Sacred Pact.  It is as God has ordained.  Do not stand accused.  Be blessed, be rewarded in Grace by Me.

Be gentle, be kind as Joseph.   Be loving, be nurturing as Mary.  Be obedient, be righteous as Me.  Be family as God has given.  Be one flesh in Marriage as God has ordained.  Let no man pull asunder.  God created them male and female.  And into Marriage, to multiply.  In Love, Who is God.  Amen.    †

(2 Sm. 7:4-5, 12-14, 16; Ps. 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom. 4:13, 16-18, 22;  Lk. 2:41-51)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah