See, My lambs, that it is far easier to etch in stone than in heart.

Will I etch in stone My Word, My Law? I have. Have you obeyed Me? See, My lambs, that it is far easier to etch in stone than in heart. For the stone is "willing" as My creation to be stone, to be etched. Ah! But you! Your hearts cannot be etched without your free will, without your desire.....because that is MY Will. And I allow it to be. That through FREEDOM you would approach Me. Freedom's road is long and narrow in a stony, unwilling heart.

I would reach out and touch you. How would you receive Me? I would use you to reach out, how shall you permit Me? If it is a matter of will, whose will are you participating in? Yours in submission to My Own? My Own, with Freedom from within you? Or are you "forcing" My Will.....am *I* to cooperate with YOU? Or are you in a confusion.....are you acting out what you "believe" I want of you because it pleases you, moreso than Me?

Oftentimes, what you "believe" causes your heart to act. Then.....what you do to the least, you do unto Me. And *I* say, "What have you done?" Do you ever pause first, to ask YOURSELF: "What have I done?"

The actions which you do, heart to heart, can lift up or tear down. I ask you to ponder: "What have I done" so that before *I* ask "What have you done," the question is answered and rectified by YOU.

Is the "least" your own heart? Is it the heart of another? Regardless.....here am I. But.....now is My Time of Mercy. Now is YOUR time of sorting out the behaviors your make. Now, with My Mercy, you can become filled with Grace through Reconciliation, through your efforts to repair the breaches in your midst. All things which separate us must be healed.

What more shall I say in this regard? Here NOW, am I in you, O least among the least. Here, NOW, am I in those around you, O least among the least. Do not look "down" upon Me. Become uplifted in My Presence here. I guide you with My Law. I guard you with My Word. I lead you with My Staff. I nurture you in My Church. O least! Now is the time to admit your position before Me. DO Love yourself, that you might better Love your neighbor.....and thus, Love Me all the more. See, am I the least in your life, or the most? How is it that you come to Me? What have you done? I wait for you to ask yourself: "What have I done?" [...ref. to Jeremiah 8:6]