Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Sharing Your Love



                “Dear Lord, my God, my King, my Savior, I hear Your call today. My heart aches as I am separated from You. I feel choked as I breathe in at the thought of being so far away from You. Remind me that You are in me, that You love me and that You are right here with me all the time. I just need to” pick up the phone” so to speak, knowing that I will hear Your voice on the other end.
“May my prayers always be a clear line of communication to You. Sometimes, I want to scream, ‘Where are You?’ and yet I wonder how often You scream ‘Where are you?’ Forgive me dear Lord for the times I let myself get so busy that I didn’t take the time to talk to You. Remind me how much You love and adore me, how much You long to be close to me as I desire to be with You. My heart aches, my eyes fill with tears, I swallow the huge lump in my throat as I think of You.
“Lord, what do You want from me here on earth? What is it You want me to do here? At times, I feel like a caged animal just waiting for the gate to be opened so that I can run to You, no matter how far and difficult it may be to find You, and to melt into Your loving embrace. I feel incomplete without You. Open my inner senses so that I can find You in me and around me; open the gate and let me run to You here and now, not just at the gates to eternity.
“Oh dear Holy Spirit, permeate my heart and soul. Let me soak You up into every part of my body, mind and soul like a sponge. Quench my thirst, moisten my dry parched being with Your precious living water. Oh Lord, may Your pure living water nourish me and help me produce the precious fruit of love, the very fruit You created and placed in me when You first breathed life into my soul. Dear Lord, may we all be watered and nourished; may we all blossom in love, slowly opening like a rose, as we produce more and more of Your love and share it with all people everywhere throughout the world You created. Help us spread Your love, sharing it like You did when You first instituted the Eucharist with Your disciples, breaking the bread, Your body, and sharing the wine, Your precious blood, with all those around You. May we share the fruit of love, spreading it freely to those and us who are starving for it, the way food is distributed to starving people and water to those in the desert.
“Oh dear Lord, open my gates here on earth and set me free to spread Your love throughout the world. Let me run free; loose the bonds I have placed on myself and set me free. Let me run through, in, over and under every obstacle here on earth to harvest Your love and distribute this precious gift. May I ride on a magnificent horse proclaiming Your love and glory like Paul Revere when he announced ‘The British are coming’ at full speed all night on a fast horse to save his fellow countrymen. Turn me loose, set me free, let me run! I feel the wind in my hair, the power under me, and I feel the angels wings brush against me. My hands are up in the air, my head is tipped back and Your stunning blinding light of love streams down on my face as the majestic horse You send me gallops at full speed throughout this earth and I share Your love everywhere with everyone.
“Oh Lord I feel Your call today and I am so very grateful.”

Monday, September 15, 2014

Help Me to Stop Asking Why



                “Dear Lord, thank You for calling me; literally drawing me in to Your loving embrace. Thank You for joining our hearts together, bathed in the warm thick blood of Your mercy and love. Thank You for repairing my heart and reshaping it back into Your image.
                “Help me Lord to stop asking why. Help me to stop trying to fully understand something that is so far beyond me, like the multitude of stars in the universe. The stars continue to exist and exhibit their beauty with or without my understanding of them. My need to understand taps into my inclination to be in control. Not knowing requires trust and faith. I have an eternal lifetime to ponder Your wonders. For my short time here on earth, let me accept the help You send to better prepare me for a future with You. Don’t let my weaknesses and lack of understanding block the fountain of mercy and love You choose to immerse me in. Let me stand there, with an open mind, heart, body and soul as You pour Your living water throughout me, within me, and over me. Wash me clean of all the extra unnecessary garbage I have clothed myself in. Let me be reformed into the image of You, the one You created me with and help me to let go of my desire to ask why and how.
                “Dear Lord, let me look in a mirror and see Your eyes looking back at me. Let me be free to be a fountain of love like You. May my heart be filled with Your compassion. May my lips speak Your praise. May my actions reflect Your glory. My Lord, my God, may my time on earth be spent praising, reverencing and serving You.”

Monday, June 9, 2014

I am in My Father



            “I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you,” Jn 14:20.
“This is precisely what we were all made for. We feel a deep longing in our souls because at the moment, we are here on earth, physically separated from our heavenly Father and from the Trinitarian love we crave. Jesus promises that we will all be together for eternity but while we live here on earth, He gives us two ways to be one with Him: 1) the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, the pure spirit of love that He sent to be with us after He ascended into heaven and, 2) the Eucharist, His blessed body and blood in a form we can see, touch and actually take into our bodies and assimilate into every cell. Jesus knows our longing for Him - it is like His longing for His Father. He didn’t abandon us when He ascended, He left us spiritual and physical parts of Him so that we could all be one, to help satisfy this deep longing we all have. We must remember that we are all one through Jesus.      
                “Our hope lies in the resurrected Lord. That is our source of joy. We live a holy life here, following the Ten Commandments out of love for God, preparing us for the future eternal life with our resurrected Lord. Our love for Him keeps us persevering and loving Him, living a holy life to honor Him and to prepare for a future with Him. When we love Jesus, we also love the Father and He loves us as well; and even though we don’t see Him and don’t understand, we walk here with the Holy Spirit who guides us, instructs us and helps us live in this holy love. We can never lose hope. The Lord resurrected, conquered death and lives on preparing a place for each of us for all eternity. This what we hope for, to be reunited with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit through Jesus, to be in Him as they are in each other and as He is in us.”