Title:   "To do the Will of God is to Love.  To do the Will of God is to obey. To keep in focus on God is to have, likewise, the vision of Joseph, of Mary, of Me."

(Notebook 57, pp. 76--80)

Live  †  Jesus

Holy Family
Sunday, December 26, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
My family was Holy because it was blessed by God.  YOUR family is Holy because it is blessed by God.  But children, the effect of Holiness occurs in your willingness to Love and to obey.  And your willingness to obey is because you know......one another.....Me.....God.  For obedience to make sense, you must come to know and Love the one you obey.  To request obedience of another is to know and to Love the one you instruct.  There must be an openness of relationship between all parties for True Love to prevail.  And flowing from this is honorable obedience and just and truthful law to be obeyed.  God is not an ogre and neither should YOU be.  God is Love and so should YOU be.  If you Love God, your leadership will be true.  If you Love God, your obedience will have value.  Children, I tell you this:  a family who strives to Love, know and serve God is close to the Trinitarian Unity in Love.  Look and see My Life, lambs:  Obedience in Love to the Father.  Obedience, Love, submission to My Mother and My Joseph.  See Joseph, leading in Love and in trust to the Will of God.  See My Mother, living out her "yes" despite the sword which has pierced her heart.

And why?  Because of focus:  focus on God.  I have asked that you have the eyes of Stephen.  [ref. to St. Stephen, first martyr, whose feast day is 12/26]  To be focused on Me, regardless of what befalls you.  To do the Will of God is to Love.  To do the Will of God is to obey. To keep in focus on God is to have, likewise, the vision of Joseph, of Mary, of Me.  To be Holy is to live as God lives.  To be blessed is to live as My Mother lives.  To be just and holy is to live in submission to God as Joseph has lived.

Children, has not My Mother taught you of a heart bowed before God?  [ref. to Message 1096  It is the posture desired for every person, every heart, before the Throne of God.  And THIS is YOUR Way to a True Life in ME, little ones.  Take full advantage of all I give.  Waste not a moment, little ones.  See.....that Love and Obedience go hand in hand.  All which flows from obedience is founded in Love.  All who are in Love would obey.  All who request obedience, in Love, bring all things to the Law of God.  To serve God, not man.  To serve God IN one another.....Do you see?  Do not be afraid of the word "obedience" when it is founded in God.  But see that it flows from Love Which is God.  Be richly blessed along this Way, lambs.  Be founded in God.  Love God.  Love one another as I Love you.  Obey God as I have obeyed My Father.  Be in Mercy, be in Me.  Be in Love, be in Me.  Be in Love, true Love, and obedience, True Obedience.

All things, subject to the Father, to the Father's Will.  Perfect, Pure Love.  Perfect, Pure Obedience.  Perfect, Pure Relationship.  In God.  In you in Me.  Amen.    †

(Sir. 3:2-6, 12-14; Ps. 128:1-5; Col 3:12-21; Lk. 2:22-40)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah