Title:  "For forgiveness brings progress on your Journey Home."

(Notebook 54, pp. 170--175)

Live  †  Jesus

Thursday, August 12, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
Do I not give you all you need, My lambs?  Water from rock?  Dry land for your feet?  And all because you have obeyed Me.  Because you have listened to My Small, Still Voice.  Because you have obeyed Me.  Because you have heard and believed and lived.  And yet.....I have given it, even as you are STRUGGLING in life, that you might find Me.  And in all things, do I precede you.  If you follow Me, you keep My Commandments.  If you follow Me, you follow Love.  I am Purpose and all I do in your life is to bring you closer and closer into Me.  Being.  In Me.....yes?  [.....Jesus smiles.]

And if what *I* do with MY Word is so important, so too, you.  How rich is your word?  How poor?  How life bearing?  How life giving?  How does it mortally wound those around you?  How does it bear insult rather than Love?  In your words do you precede Me, or follow Me?  Do your words mix well with one who is of Me, or by your words are you better identified as one who is against Me?  Know this:  for all the wrong you have done by word, you will be judged.  And sorrow will spill over and precede you like a river.  And it is I, then, Who shall precede you, that you might walk My Way into the Promised Land.  Notice how I use these Words, this Teaching, in your life, that in your death you might speedily follow Me into My Kingdom.  All which is good do I bestow upon you.  I Grace you with every opportunity to succeed in My Way.  I withhold nothing, but you will not recognize My Way, My Lead, unless you have taken your time to come to know Me, Love Me, serve Me.  Forgive one another as I forgive you.  Yes......words have waged more wars than people know.  There are casualties of the war of words wider than the ocean.  You walk upon the bodies of those you have wounded with words.  So many.....more than one can count.

So.....where is sorrow?  I have come so you can place your sorrow into My Wounds.  Come, let Me heal the mouth which has delivered the poison rising, even from time to time, in your heart.  I would heal you, if you would give to Me the moment.  I am your Healer.  DO let Me precede you.  Glory awaits those who heed My Word.  Will you accept My Glory?  Or do you prefer to drown in your own unrepentance?

This is an important teaching.  Heed it well.  See?  I coordinate all things to reach your heart.  Tell it, child.....

(Yes, my Lord.  Yesterday I was sitting with My Dad-in-law, who is dying.  He looked into my eyes and said he has been with You, Lord, and that You have shown him every word he has ever spoken and how it has affected all those who have been in his life.  Dad was in AWE, Lord, for the distance his words have travelled and for all those who were affected by one word from him.....good or bad.  He was very much at Peace for the time he had spent with You.  And he longed not to offend You, Lord, for this Teaching.)

And My saint.....

(Yes, Lord.....)

"Above all, let us carefully keep silence on occasions that mortify us.  Let us be Charitable and Humble, both in our thoughts and words."  ["Thoughts & Sayings of St. Margaret Mary" for August 12]

Ah!  I am Perfection, am I not?

(O Lord!  You are our Great and Glorious King!  Lord God of all!  Master!  Teacher!  Judge!  Love!  Peace!  Mercy!  Greatness!  Perfect Smallness, O Lord God!  O Eucharistic King, I Love You!  Amen..  Alleluia!)

And daughter.....yes, I smile.....in silence, let us end here.  In silence, let us ponder.  In silence let you forgive, that you, too, might be forgiven of every word which has offended every heart torn in two.  Dry land!  Part the tears!  Rejoice!  For forgiveness brings progress on your Journey Home.  Amen.

(Alleluia!  God be praised!  Maranatha!  Come, Lord Jesus!  Amen.)

(Joshua 3:7-11, 13-17; Ps. 114:1-6; Mt. 18:21--19:1)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah