Show love in the spur of the moment. It can become overwhelming trying to plan in advance for all the things you “intend” to do to bring goodness to others. Sometimes I thwart those plans with more pressing or present needs. It’s okay to prepare and try to lay out positive plans, but I call you to be open to the winds of change I may put along your path. I thank you for your good intentions. I love that you honor Me in doing good works. I want to bless you – and others – in moments where My hand can accomplish what is most needed. Sometimes I even send angels to accompany you in allowing My will to be done. Be open to whatever I present to you today. You may be on the giving end, or I may place you on the receiving end. My design is so intricate, beyond your eyes or imaginings. In your response to others, as you strive to bring love into the moment, you may or may not even be aware of the dynamic change occurring. I design all things for Good.
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No “Spiritual Guilt”
Don’t get Me wrong. I do not ask for “spiritual guilt”, – thinking that you are somehow not measuring up to My demanding expectations or that things are ‘your fault’ when they aren’t turning out the way you think they should. Yes, I desire for you to be attentive to others, – a compassionate listener, caring friend, kind family member, patient colleague, – but I do not call you to do so to a point of depletion. I also don’t ask you to be walked on by others who mistreat or bully, thinking you have to always ‘just be nice’. I never intend for my children to be abused. It’s perfectly okay to assert yourself when a voice of reason or justice is needed. It is also okay to back away and take time out for self-care, – to fill the well. Time with Me, – truly quiet and reflective – is the best way to do that. Be cautious about filling your well with things that won’t satisfy, led by false Gods or desires that aren’t of My intent for you. Learn how to be content in the stillness, even when all around you may be filled with discontent. If you sense ‘spiritual guilt’ rising in you, you are probably trying to do too much on your own. Bring it to Me to help you gain perspective, and hand the problems to Me. It’s okay to allow yourself to be at peace even when those around you are not. I am the One attending to the repairs needed; you don’t have to carry the pressure to ‘fix’ everything on your own.
Seek My Vision
I have spoken clearly to you for a reason. Hear Me, child of Mine: My words are written and spoken not just for your comfort and guidance, but also for your protection. It is easy to become side-tracked and annoyed with life’s irritations, or the race of tasks you have deemed as ‘important’ to accomplish. I have designed you for so much more than all of that. Be bold when I need you to be. Be humbled in your attitude when it comes to service toward others. Self-righteousness is an ugly property, – be cautious whenever you are contemplating judgement of others and their ways. Leave the judging up to Me. Seek My Vision – and know that when you do so we walk in partnership as you carry it out.
Shed the Details
Hear Me: I do not “reprimand you” – I am not that kind of God! If you face challenges that seem to attack your spirit, know that I may be forming or shaping you more into My likeness, and so choose to say, “thank you”. Choose to TRUST, knowing that I will reveal Myself to you fully each step of your life. My ways are not meant to be hard. Sometimes they call upon you to stop focusing on the details, enlightening simpler priorities and gleaning peace from it all as you learn a life of simplicity. Stop fretting; stop “sweating the small stuff”. Release those daily annoyances that frustrate you so much, and know that My Peace is within your grasp. I’m not a punitive God trying to teach some sort of mean lesson to you. My peace will satisfy far more fully than what this world defines as accomplishment or success. My peace I leave you; My peace I give to you…Not as the world gives, do I give. Joy unimaginable! Wonder beyond belief. All of this is within your reach. Shed the unimportant details. Seek peace, and follow after it.
Walk You Through
Have you ever heard someone say “I’ll walk you through it” when you are learning something new? That’s My message to you today: let Me walk you through it. I have full confidence in you, and in your capacity to learn what it is I am trying to teach you. Your life is two-fold: part of you is designed for MY purposes for other’s needs; the other part is designed for your own well-being. Sometimes these two things seem to be at odds with one another, especially when you are tired and seeking time out for yourself. I don’t place one before the other. BOTH are of equal importance in My eyes and My will for you. When you face an obstacle or challenge today, let Me walk you through it, -finding the balance needed for self-care and for care of others. Remember, you are not alone, and it’s not all up to you.
Content with Life
It’s okay that you don’t feel 100% joyful today. I never intended you to experience only joy when you decided to follow Me. I do gift you with the capacity to be grateful, though, – and joy is born out of gratitude. I also offer simple peace to you, with open access to finding your fill of that. My peace is always available. It takes self-discipline to learn to set aside your worries , wishes, and needs long enough to hear My ever-present reassurance that ALL IS WELL. Return to simplicity of thought. In the present moment, practice allowing a contentment with your life just as it IS, knowing that your future is addressed by My loving hands.
Restoration Project
You concentrate so much on showing love to others, which I appreciate. You glorify Me when you do that. But when you give to the point of exhaustion it means you have forgotten to allow yourself My gifts to YOU. I call you to rest; I strengthen and replenish you as needed, too. I call you to RECEIVE. Have you allowed yourself to receive grace from others? If someone wants to lavish you with thoughtfulness, kindness or attention, allow yourself to receive it. Don’t back away. Like Mary Magdalene pouring precious oils to anoint Me, I want to pour abundant blessings upon you. Don’t minimize the importance of these gestures, or turn away in misguided humility. It is part of My “restoration project” – restoring your soul for infinite bonding with Me. Receive, with gratitude. Let me overwhelm you with LOVE.
Hungry for Joy
Don’t allow anything to “steal your joy”. Not bills, not misguided desires for comfort, excess, belonging, or surplus wealth. Self-consciousness is another trap, – locking you in places I do not wish you to be. Try to not allow the words of others impact you so much. When you give weight and power to the opinions of others, it tugs you away from awareness of My Presence and My constant love for you. Step aside from these traps. Walk safely next to Me, away from the dark thieves trying to entice you around corners that do not truly satisfy. Find the purity and simplicity of My joy, an unending well of supply available for you. There is Light around the corner when you take My hand. Instead of wishing for things that aren’t present in your life, or fearing things imagined but not actualized, acknowledge all the ways I am meeting your needs in the present moment. I long to meet and fulfill your hunger for true joy.
Go Easy
Choose to love. Choose to go easy on others. Hopefully this will help ease how hard you are on yourself. Kindness, forgiveness, patience – these are gifts of Grace I bestow upon you and I ask you to bestow upon others – but don’t neglect bestowing it upon yourself. Sometimes, – too often, really – you push yourself hard and judge yourself harshly. This breaks My heart! If you have wronged another, go and apologize and begin the healing process for you both. If others judge you critically or have wronged you, lift this situation up to My eyes and My pierced hands will help take this burden from you to begin your own process of healing. Go easy today, surrounded in My Grace, which will sustain, heal, guide, and strengthen you as you need.
Water
You’ve heard me say it before: “Peace is flowing like a river”. What a glorious thing to take in: a whole RIVER of peace! Calm, restful waters; abundant flow; never-ending in its source and well-spring of goodness. For some this river will seem as if it’s located in a different land, far away from you…but this is not accurate. This river is glistening for YOU, awaiting your footsteps and wanting you to walk toward its shoreline. Come to Me, all you who are weary and find life burdensome. Come lay beside My restful waters. Wash your hands clean of the stains and muddied hurts from the past. Rinse away the worries in My water of refreshment. If there are tears to shed, add them to My river flow and watch them flow downstream, where Grace will transform them from sadness to peace elsewhere for others who will need your comfort shared with them. All things will be turned into good in My hands.
Spoken to Me 