May 16, 2015

                R: We are all unique and coming from
                different homes, different ancestors etc.
                Our parents taught us about relationships.
                Today the world is really busy – so many
                allurements, so much things out there
                that are not under God.

                    God is to be first – the greatest commandment
                tells us this –

                R. We should see the disorder in relationships
                in the world. That is: it is disorder when
                God is not first. The order God gave us
                is He is to be first.

                    Because of wounds, pressures,
                because of sin: pride, anger, jealousy,
                envy, slothfulness, lustfulness,
                gluttony, people with wounded human
                natures have given in to their tendencies
                toward these and have sinned
                against God and their brothers and sisters
                and themselves –

                We are here to grow in relationship.

                We are to work to have a loving relationship
                    with God first in our lives – to
                    realize He is above us and we
                    are to seek God's will for us –
                    To this degree we obey God and
                    seek His will – we learn about
                    freedom –
                    God has given us all we have –
                    God gives us our life –
                    God created us to know, love and
                    serve Him.

                    ORDER –

                    That is the ORDER –

                    Pride is like Eve had in the garden –
                she wanted to be equal to God.

                    The devil is the grand deceiver –
                he hates us, he is jealous, a mere man
                could love God, serve Him and go to
                heaven for all eternity – when he (the devil)
                will be in hell –

                The devil does whatever he can get away
                with, that man lets him do with
                man's free will, to get man to choose
                to oppose God's plan, to hate his
                brothers and sisters and do them harm
                and to hate God. The devil works
                in secrets – the devil doesn't want
                his evil designs to be exposed – so
                he hides things. A person is to use
                right reason and control their actions –
                A person has a free will to choose the
                will of God or oppose the will of God.

                    Learning about relationships is
                taught in homes by the parents and
                care givers. Parents could have
                settled things fairly with children and
                in love, but parents were once children
                of those grandparents who taught them
                and so on – Ancestry, parents, caregivers
                teach about relationships –

                I thought yesterday how it was interesting
                how we dream – do we see ourselves
                working in unity and love with others –

                    Life is working in the heart in
                love with (1) God
                                (2) Others
                                (3) Ourselves

                    Our actions are to be focused on love –
                the more we relate to others, we see
                how important it is to have as the source
                of our relationships – God – God is love –
                When we die our souls will go somewhere.

                My mom died when I was five – that was
                hard because the mom is usually the
                primary person helping children in
                relationships.

                I know now, I have all kinds of relationships
                with lots of people and it is a gift
                to be able to love people because
                that is God's will for us – To love Him
                and to be one in Him and give to others –
                God set it up – so men and women in marriage
                are really close to each other – That they
                are to work life-long with another person
                to love, to be with them, to share children,
                to share problems, money, meals, to
                be all that God wants them to be and the
                spouse should be and to still be what
                is for them without conflicts and
                hating.

                    When children come – it is a lot of
                sacrifice on the parents, physically,
                they need to care for the little ones – day
                and night – in sickness and in health and
                they are to work together and be loving
                even when they have not slept, a
                child is sick – or when they grow to
                be teenagers and have to let them go
                some, in cars, on dates, going to
                college and
                they are consistently supposed to love
                each other, for better or worse, in
                sickness and health – until death do us
                part –

                Married life for two people with wounded
                human natures, with different dispositions,
                with different teachings from different
                families – in a dysfunctional, worldly
                world is a challenge –

                    And God gives married couples the
                gift of the sacrament to help them –
                The Mass to help them get grace to stay
                one –

                Mary says, the family that prays together
                    stays together –

                God has a plan for us –

                We have a vocation He wants us to follow –
                Think of a priest serving 3 parishes –
                how much he gives and people need
                him many times on a moments notice –
                he serves and gives and he is to be
                like Jesus – loving and showing men
                how to be loving –

                    Relationship – a priest gives and
                when he has lots of problems with
                things – he has to depend on Jesus –
                He doesn't punish people – he goes
                to Jesus and he can suffer greatly –
                like Jesus on the cross did – for us –
                like Jesus did working with people and
                enemies and His Apostles –

                    Sufferings and how to turn to Jesus
                is the message He gives us.
                Love gives – love is not inconsistent –
                A person that doesn't develop as he
                should in relationships is not even
                seeing through the eyes of God.

                    God is love. Jesus came to this earth.
                Homes are not to be filled with selfish
                people, with fighting and punishing
                each other.

                    Satan tempts people to act like a
                child with their unmet needs from
                childhood. Satan tempts people in
                pain to blame others and punish
                innocent others while they act-out
                secrets and abuses and hate from
                dysfunctional, angry homes.

                   Relationships and learning to love –
                to be prudent, to be just, to live in the
                truth, to be consistently committed
                to loving relationships with God and
                those He intends us to live with
                is why we are here – to work on
                our hearts and ask for grace to have
                a heart like Jesus.

                    When we hurt our foot – we nurse it,
                if we slip and fall – we work to help our
                leg get better –

                    When we hate and close-in on
                others because we don't trust God
                and others – we need to work on
                our hearts – this is why we are
                here –

                Think of how close – God calls married
                people to be – to live together – working
                things out in love – with the demands
                of children, grandchildren many times and
                consistently love – to be committed –
                to give and take – to LOVE and bring
                forth fruit for the Kingdom of God –

                    Every relationship takes
                    Commitment in love –
                    Commitment in truth and fairness

                A person cannot have a meaningful
                relationship in love with another –
                where they are deciding if I am
                angry from the past, I blame it on
                some scapegoat and hold out to
                make someone fight me for needs
                that they have to pay bills, to
                run the house, business etc. –

                Heaven is eternally being in relationships
                    of deep unity – ONENESS and LOVE –

                God is order –
                to be Godly – we seek God's order

                God is Divine

                God's laws must be followed to have unity
                    and love –

                The devil is hate – the devil wants selfishness,
                    the devil is envious of man –

                Our wills must be disciplined

                In the Holy Spirit sequence it says –

                "Bend the stubborn heart and will;
                Melt the frozen, warm the chill;"

                A person cannot be full of unforgiveness life-long
                    and think being so clogged in their
                    heart – they will be free to love
                    others –

                Disciplining one's heart and will is what
                    we must have –

                Consistency in love –

                    If we build relationships we don't
                        love one day –
                        then punish the person the next
                        day to be isolated –
                   Love-Hate Relationships

                Love is like Jesus and Mary teach us –

                Jesus did the Father's will to His death
                    on the cross –

                R. We need to be deeply one with God and others –
                    One in prayer – one in heart –
                    disciplining our unruly wills –
                    turning over secrets of the past so we
                        don't lie to ourselves and act-out
                        on others for our enemies of the past –

                    "Bend the stubborn heart and will;
                    Melt the frozen, warm the chill;"

                Satan works in secrets
                Satan works in lies –

                Telling ourselves we don't have to
                    recover from bad relationships
                    with brothers and sisters and mom and
                    dad is a trap – when they were
                    angry and unhealthy and

                The devil works in this to keep the person
                    'acting-out' their unfinished pain
                    on others –
                    if they can get away with it –

                God is absolute truth –

                We seek the truth –

                We live in relationships – loving and
                    forgiving – being humble –
                    taking hurts to the cross –
                    hurts of the past and
                    telling the truth –
                    living in order as God has taught us –

                God is infinite goodness

                The world operates most efficiently
                    under his perfection –
                    with men living to be perfect
                    like their Heavenly Father is
                        perfect –

                God is infinite intelligence

                God has a plan –

                The Plan operates in order according
                    to God –

                Why would a man think he can
                    punish innocent others doing
                    God's work because they are
                    angry, jealous, envious,
                    prideful –

                Satan is a liar –
                Satan hates
                Satan wants souls for hell –
                Satan deceives men –

                Hating our brothers is against God –

                We are to pray for the world –

                Pray and unite to the Mass –

                There are no defects in God's Plan –

                We must seek it!
 

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

17 Years Ago