Title: "
A blank canvass is the best place for a new painting!
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(Notebook XLIV, pp. 123--127)
Live + Jesus
Monday, May 11, 998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
My Lord, there is so much about Life in You that I do not understand.
I thank You, Jesus, that the Holy Spirit is sent to us to teach us all
we are to know. Dear Holy Spirit, please help me to be open of heart,
that I might learn in every moment all You would Will to teach me.
See my hunger and thirst, O Lord, and fill me. Amen.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your Faithful, and enkindle in us
the Fire of Your Love. Send forth Your Spirit and we shall be created,
and You will renew the face of Your earth! Amen.
There is much I would teach, if men's hearts would be open.
But what must be relinquished is pre-conceived notion. May I tell
you this, child? A blank canvass is the best place for a new painting!
(Then help me, O Lord! That I might abandon to You, myself.
That You would paint me as You Will, O Lord.)
I can create, I can burn away all that would be parted with.
I am He Who has come to burn, ignite, enliven, enkindle! All these
Words are attributed to Me. I am the Power of God, the Paraclete.
The Guide. The Comforter. I am He Who enters, rules, governs
the Church. I am Truth, Power, Might, Love! I am Gift.
I am Charism. I am All and Everything. I am God. I am
Spirit. It is I Who gathers now, the souls and hearts of many.
To prove that God is at your side. My Breath warms every heart.
My Virtue heals hearts. My Virtue grows hearts. My Virtue leads
all who would follow, to Truth. I am the Voice of many, raised in
prayer. I am the Tongue echoed in praise throughout the land.
I am the Gift in every heart at Baptism. I am the Life at every Confirmation.
I am He Who comes to call you forward. To bring you fully into Church
which is the family of God. THIS is My position in your life.
Where is YOUR position in Me? Do you pray that I come, and then stop
Me? Do you let My Fire of Love burn away all that blocks you from
a True Life in Me?
For this Reason, now, I call to you. I whisper to you.
I inspire you. I churn in your heart. Come, follow My Lead.
I Desire that you come, fully into Union in Me Who is God. I am the
Breath you would breathe. I am the Life you would live! I am
Life as lived from a perspective aside of the world! I am God.
I can be your vision, if you would let Me look through your eyes.
If you would come then, to look at life through MY Eyes.
O children! In Me there are Endless Possibilities. I
am your Progress, if you let Me lead you. I am you Guide, if you
would follow. I am your Teacher, if you would learn from Me.
Put your pencil down, child. O little one! Pick up your LIFE
and follow Me!
I am the Spirit of God! I call to you in Truth. I Who
am Spirit, DO speak. Loudly. Clearly. In your hearts.
Do you hear Me? I am He Who whispers Truth! Too many ears are
tickled by falsehoods. Too many hearts follow false ways. There
is a law, innate within you. Follow My Lead, My Whispers there.
There is a Law etched in stone. Follow the Law of God. There
is a Law of Love. LIVE in Love! How, afterall, can you proclaim
to BE in God if you abhor His Law? To BE is to BE. Wholly,
completely, willingly. Unrelentingly letting go of the world.
Avoiding evil. Confessing sin. Seeking Grace, not the void
in the world. Children, O children! There is a time for everything,
yes. THIS is YOUR time! NOW! HERE! THIS MOMENT!
H-E-A-R M-E! DO NOT DELAY! The Spirit of
God is upon you! HEAR! LEARN! LIVE! In Me, Yes,
in Me. Now and forever. Amen. Alleluia! Praise
God! Let the praise rise in your hearts and flow from your lips!
(Father! Son! Spirit! Alleluia! Amen!
Alleluia! God be praised! Forever and ever. Amen.)