Title:  "If you are to bear fruit, you MUST be tended and you MUST be pruned."

(Notebook 60, pp. 18--20)

Live  †  Jesus

Wednesday, May 24, 2000

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[The Lord speaks.....]
New Life.  New Life.  New Life.  For New Life to be, much growing, much tending,  much lopping away of the old is needed.   But the growth I speak of, lambs, is the growth of heart.....soul.....your eternal self.  All which surrounds it.....your physical being.....is needed only for the support, the experience of the whole of who you are.  And though the body will die, I DO care for it and I DO nurture it, for it has been and IS My Temple!  The pains, the torments, the sickness which you feel can be used for the Good of your eternal self, if you give all things to Me; and in My Name, as you stand before the Father, you are heard!  Every word you utter, every thought you bear, is heard!  Perfection hears you.  Perfection tends to your every aspect of growth in Me.

If you are to bear fruit, you MUST be tended and you MUST be pruned.  All which does not belong must be peeled away.  It is truly a matter of spirit, yes.  Ah.....But your body.....I Love it because it has been made by These Hands of Perfection!  You are My CHILD, little one!  You have been My House, My Temple!  You are My Home!  And I Love you!

The fruit that you bear is a living sign of My Presence within you and of your Life in Me.  To suffocate our growth is very wrong of you.  To deny all which I would have accomplished within you is to deny ME!  If bearing fruit for your own sake and for the sakes of those around you is the purpose for which you have been born, then I say:  Rise, walk and come with Me now!  Let all look and see the Greatness of God by the fruitful life which you lead!  Yet let it be MY Greatness and your SMALLNESS which is the visible sign.  Let Humility be seen.   Let it be known that pride has been peeled away!  Let Wisdom and silence replace talkative nothingness.   You see.....for MY Word to take True growth within you, your own thoughts and words must become relinquished to My Own.

And so, DO submit yourself to Me and do so within the Authority of the Church which I have given to you. The Authority is My Own.  Grace resides Here.  Truth resides Here.  Nurturing resides Here.  *I* reside Here.  Amen.    †

(Acts 15:1-6; Ps. 122:1-5; Jn. 15:1-8)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah