My children, hear Me. I am in speech right from the start. To tell you of the great
need there is for you to be willing to die for the Sake of Me. To follow Me, as I have
asked, is to die to self. What value can there be of self when you are filled with Me?
Look and see the greatness in your life. You should bow in humble submission for this
Goodness I have permitted to be witnessed within you. You are but a vessel for My
Goodness. O little ones, DO hear Me. I speak, now, in gentle tones.
Sweet things, hear Me. I am a God of Gentleness and Kindness. I have been born into
humanity that I might live of life and die to life and rise from life. It is as My Father
has ordained. And to concentrate on the horror of My Death is not to see its Glory. To
concentrate on the Purpose for My Death is to see its beauty. For Its Purpose is the Union
in God. Into His Plan. In Union with Him. For His Purpose. In Gentle and kind submission.
My lambs, hear Me. I use this Ultimate Example of My Life, for it is by My Life that
you are to learn to be more like Me. You cannot relate to the Glory of My Father, but by
the Life I have led. You see, I AM the Way, am I not? Learning by GOOD example! It is the
best teacher, is it not?
You must always be straightforward in your approach to Me. You must keep me clearly in
your focus. In the good and bad of your life. In Me, there is constant Resurrection. I
will carry you each, if you would but allow Me to. For, I am bent, waiting to lift you if
you would allow My Arms to fully embrace you.
Submission to the Will of God can only occur by the relinquishing of self. If you have
sorrow: give it to Me. If you have Joy: attribute it to Me. Any Good Thing comes from Me.
Accept no laurel for the accomplishment you bear, for it was truly a gift from Me. Nothing
in Me happens by accident. All that occurs has meaning. And you will more easily
understand if you lift your arms and offer all to Me. For you will better and more clearly
see that I have lifted your all and everything to My Father. And in the Perfection of that
moment, you will see a transformation in your heart as all of who you are comes into union
in God. I now share your Sorrow. I now laugh in you Joy. I feel your every need. I am the
Completeness, the very Fullness of your life. Truth has begun to prevail. All and
everything is Mine. All and everything, including Life Itself, is but a gift on loan to
you from Me. A way to true life in God is this Gift. For you to open in My Presence and to
use in harmony with My Way.
Disharmony results in despair and confusion. Your sense of Purpose is gone. As you wrap
your own hands around sorrow or creation and clutch it in solitary form to your breast,
you leave Me out by your free will. And ultimately a great loneliness fills your life. One
which cannot be filled by ways of yourself, yet you try.
Have you heard the term, "Let go and let God?" This is Truth. There is a
freedom in all of Life. A Freedom in Me. A Freedom in Jesus to which you are invited. A
Freedom into which you are called to live. By acknowledging your Presence in Me. Your
submission of self to Me. Let go, and find Truth. Let go, and find all. I am your All and
Everything. Be not afraid. Fear is of the enemy. Leave him behind. Cast him off. Give him
to Me. And in My Own Name I shall bind him. He has held you long enough in his foul grasp
breathing words of confusion into your heart!
Freedom in Jesus! Freedom in Me! Freedom in Jesus! Render to Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s, but to God the things that are God’s! You are children of God! Render
yourself unto Me!
My Hand is open, waiting to accept you. Gentleness and kindness await you. Come, be in
submission to Me. Find your Freedom in Me. Freedom in Jesus! Amen.
(Dear St. Anthony of Padua, on this Your Feast, help us to find the greatest of
possessions: our hearts. That we may lay them in submission at the Feet of Jesus. That by
your example and that of all who have gone before us in Faith, we might find our way to
the life in God to which we are called. Amen.)
True life, child, is what is found in submission. Amen. (Amen, my Lord. Amen. Thank
you, St. Anthony, for your prayer in our behalf.
(2 Cor. 4:7-15; PS. 116:10-11,15-18; Mt. 5:27-32)