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Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing
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September 28,
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September 29th Holy Spirit Novena
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September 28, 2014
1 John 1: 5-10
This is what we have heard from
him
and are declaring to you:
God is light,
and there is no darkness in him at all.
If we say that we share in God’s life
while we are living in darkness,
we are lying,
because we are not living the truth.
But if we live in light,
as he is in light,
we have a share in another’s life,
and the blood of Jesus, his Son,
cleanses us from all sin.
If we say, ‘We have no sin,’
we are deceiving ourselves,
and truth has no place in us
if we acknowledge our sins,
he is trustworthy and upright,
so that he will forgive our sins
and will cleanse us from all evil.
If we say, ‘We have never sinned,’
we make him a liar,
and his word has no place in us.
John 14: 6
Jesus said: I am the Way; I
am Truth and Life.
No one can come to the Father
except through me.
Genesis
1: 26-27
God
said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the
likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of
the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the
cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures
that creep along the ground.’
God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
R. I was awaken by Jesus who said
Jesus: Denial to a trauma in your life –
R. A person when they have a
trauma in a relationship or
a trauma of abuse may have
to be in denial (for a little while)
until they face the truth about what
happened. They cannot
continue to be shut down
and live in denial.
Living in the truth, working
through relationships in truth,
helps us to live and know
the truth about a situation.
In Alcoholics Anonymous a
whole family can deny the
alcoholic influences and behaviors.
There is a dance they may
do, to cover up the dysfunction
that hurts every member –
In an alcoholic family, there are players
in the family. It is a Merry-Go-Round
called Denial. There is a user, an enabler,
a hero child, usually a scape-goat
and sometimes a lost child in families that
are hurt by addiction, dysfunction.
This dysfunctional dance severely hurts normal
spontaneity – working out problems
and conflicts in truth, in justice.
Solving problems and living
in healthy loving relationships –
with commitment, honesty, trust,
understanding feelings, talking about
issues is severely abnormal in
dysfunctional families.
There is a merry-go-round on
the front of a brochure used
in alcoholic dysfunction.
Even if there is not an active alcoholic
there can be a dry alcoholic situation
where these dysfunctional behaviors
are the abnormal rule children are
taught and forced to live by. In
the Merry-go-Round called Denial
once again there is the user (or dry drunk)
an enabler, a hero child, a scapegoat child,
and sometimes a lost child.
Trauma that can be stuffed
from the past and in which a person, can
be left frozen, can lock healthy relationships –
This trauma can be from the death of a
parent, a divorce, a person abused.
It may take denial to live with the
shock in the beginning –
that a person, cannot cover up,
that leaves them frozen, without
consequences to family and
relationships. A person, in order to live
in truth, has to face the
truth about the trauma
in someway and not be
shut down.
Relationships must be
worked through. If a person
never validates what was
abusive and keeps abusing others –
it can be the cycle of
abuse they implement – as an addiction.
When pain from unresolved
relationships come up –
they can live in denial and
the pain keeps coming up
while the inner self is seeking
resolution from trauma, abuse,
denial, to live a normal life.
A healthy person lives
in the moment, in truth,
in spontaneity, in love,
relating to others outside the
family, trusting others, solving
problems, talking out problems,
and having conflict skills
necessary to solve every day issues –
A person in denial can run
from what they need to face
in normal relationships
and never solve normal
problems in trusting others,
in loving others, in commitment,
in relationships to others.
God made covenants with
men – Commitment! We
know God never leaves us
orphaned –
A person living in denial is
afraid –
they keep pushing down the
truth and keep denying
what they need to face.
Relationships with others
that were traumatic
are to be dealt with,
brought to light, or a
person may never really,
live life in the moment –
reacting and loving and trusting
as they should –
Song: Live This Day
R. A person can be in denial
about anything that makes
them feel threatened, insecure,
vulnerable –
A person can minimize
what happened and the
inner child keeps trying
to settle the conflict, depriving
them of spontaneity and life –
Where a short period of denial
after the trauma may be
necessary, a person
cannot live in denial of
relationships that were
traumatic and never really
worked through in truth.
Trauma not resolved can
freeze the emotions, one's
ability to live in the moment
and have joy, because they do
not respond spontaneously
as they should.
Trauma, must be recognized
for what it is.
If one person hits another
person in the face there are
wounds, but if a person
is emotionally abused there
are unseen wounds that
can be just as great or worse.
R. We see Christ suffered physical
wounds and went through
crucifixion, martyrdom,
but Mary went through the
suffering in her heart or
"white martyrdom" her
anguish and suffering was so great.
When we identify with Jesus
in His sacrifice for our sins –
we see Jesus making reparation
for our sins. Mary told us at
Fatima we were to make reparation
to God for the offenses against
her heart and Jesus' Heart.
Mary didn't run with pain –
Mary, the perfect handmaid of the Lord –
endured the pain
We pray the 7 sorrows in the
Shepherds of Christ Prayers Jesus
told us to pray –
Mary trusted –
Mary was committed to her vocation –
Mary's Heart was pure –
Mary loved the Father's will –
Mary knew from the Prophesy
of Simeon - she would
suffer –
Mary accepted this even with
Jesus being a baby –
Mary sacrificed for
our sins also –
Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
Mary:
I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I
saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My
Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I
suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and
give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this
message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I
stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried
for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How
do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I
appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject
me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored.
The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you.
Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and
I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart
was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this
day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold
back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to
help my children. You are my children of light.
end of Mary's Message
R. For example there is pain for children, where
parents fought or divorced or separated.
I listened to a few moments of
a Christian tape with children
whose parents divorced.
They cried how they wanted their
parents to get along
and they did at one time –
the parents at one time were
loving each other, the children said.
Then the children said they hated
each other, or separated, remarried
and the children suffered and still
suffer –
Validating their hurt feelings
from this is truth and
helps children work through
this trauma of
separation and divorce –
Telling our children we are
sorry for wrong behavior,
hurt behavior, trauma,
is facing the truth
and helps the children to not
live in denial of what was a "train
wreck" in their lives –
Validating the truth of hurts
children suffered, helps them
work through the trauma of
divorce, of wrongs done to
them, of hurts they may have
endured because of wrong behavior
of parents (selfishness, anger, busyness,
neglect, not teaching the children what
they needed to learn about relationship,
problem solving, admitting what was
wrong, asking for forgiveness, and
giving forgiveness to others)
In Alcoholics Anonymous,
Children of Alcoholics,
Alanon –
People must work the steps –
they tell the truth –
they work with others who
support and love them
despite the trauma
Excerpt from February 24, 2014
Jesus: The devil doesn't rest, he wants your
soul, he reads you and knows your
weaknesses and he tries to tempt
you so you are sad and focused on
yourselves.
Like the surprise of wind and hail,
the devil comes and wants you
caught in his design.
How can you escape the weather –
You can't.
You cannot escape satan who
wants to stop you, but
some give into him –
Denying or minimizing what has hurt you
in the past, is what takes that freedom you
want to feel from you.
Getting in touch with anger over years
in which you feel robbed of life is necessary
if you are to be free and recover from
the dysfunctional, survival behaviors
practiced in your lives.
What zaps your energy in living
under the false way you may have told
yourself about the past.
All of you, if you honestly look at
the past, in this journey of growing to
be like Jesus had to get over spiritual
pride telling yourselves you were perfect.
In the life of a dysfunctional person
one can be an enabler for so many years
and hurt so many in the process of
seeing yourself as perfect and others
as the sinners or the "poor guy" in need
of our rescuing.
Children of dysfunctional homes can be
harmed until they seek recovery and embrace
the truth about how imperfect relationships
were in their homes.
A person must ask for forgiveness
and give forgiveness to others – those
who were stuck in enabling never
saw themselves except as perfect and
the merry-go-round called denial
played their song life-long until
they wanted the truth and sought recovery.
The 12 steps of Alcoholic Anonymous and
Alanon.
THE TWELVE STEPS OF AA
Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol,
that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed,
and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we
were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
praying only for knowledge of His will for us and
the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
THE PROBLEM
CHILDREN OF
ALCOHOLICS: These are the characteristics we seem to have in
common
due to having been brought up in an
alcoholic household:
1. We became
isolated and afraid of people and authority figures.
2. We became approval seekers and lost our
identity in the process.
3. We either become alcoholics, marry them or
both or find another
compulsive personality such as a workaholic
to fulfill our sick
abandonment.
4. We are frightened by angry people and any
personal criticism.
5. We live life from the viewpoint of helping
and seeking victims,
and are attracted by that weakness in our
love and friendship
relationship.
6. We have an overdeveloped sense of
responsibility, and it is easier
for us to be concerned with others rather
than ourselves.
This enables us not to look closely at our
faults, etc.
7. We get guilt feelings when we stand up for
ourselves instead we
give in to others.
8. We become addicted to excitement.
9. We confuse love with pity and tend to "love"
people we can pity and rescue.
10. We have stuffed back our feelings from our
traumatic childhoods and have
lost the ability to feel or express our
feelings. It hurts so much (denial).
11. We judge ourselves harshly and have a very low
sense of self-esteem,
sometimes compensated for by trying to
appear superior.
12. We are dependent personalities who are
terrified of abandonment.
We will do anything to hold onto a
relationship in order not to experience
the pain of abandonment. We are conditioned
to these types of relationships.
13. Alcoholism is a family disease and we became
para-alcoholics.
We took on the characteristics of that
disease even though
we did not pick up the drink.
14. Para-alcoholics are reactors rather than
actors.
THE GOALS
THE OPPOSITE OF "THE PROBLEM"
1. I feel
comfortable and involved with people and authority figures.
2. I have a strong identity and give myself
approval.
3. I accept and use personal criticism in a
positive way.
4. I am becoming free from trying to fulfill my
sick abandonment need.
5. As I face my own victim role, I am attracted
by strengths and understand
weaknesses in my love and friendship
relationships.
6. I am getting well through loving and focusing
on myself.
7. It feels great to stand up for myself.
8. I enjoy peaceful serenity.
9. I love people who love and take care of
themselves.
10. I am free to feel and express my feelings even
when painful.
11. I have a healthy sense of self-esteem.
12. I am freed from the fear of abandonment in
relationships as I rely
more and more on my Higher Power.
13. Through the ACA group, I examine and release
para-alcoholic behaviors
I learned while living with the family
disease of alcoholism.
14. I am an actor in this world.
THE PROMISES
1. We are going
to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
2. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut
the door on it.
3. We will comprehend the word serenity, and we
will know peace.
4. No matter how far down the scale we have
gone, we will see
how our experience can benefit others.
5. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity
will disappear.
6. We will lose interest in selfish things and
gain interest in our fellows.
7. Self-seeking will slip away.
8. Our whole attitude and outlook will change.
9. Fear of people and economic insecurity will
leave us.
10. We will know intuitively how to handle
situations that used to baffle us.
11. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for
us what we could not do for ourselves.
Jesus: A person can be numb from hiding
the truth. To try to protect oneself
from past pain and grief, a person
can learn survival tactics to
turn off feelings, but they need
to want to know how numb
they have become to live and
respond in the moment to the
events around them.
From a Lenten Homily, March 24, 2000
Live in the Moment
Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion
and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we
are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us
an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of
ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument for receiving the great
graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial
on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us
for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time of self-discipline, a time
to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord.
Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the
most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to
concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to
disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on
the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for
thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the
past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be
upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age
quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the
present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of
spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of
Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a
greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment.
People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death
for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very,
very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some
certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their
lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and
opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at
those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great
means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our
Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much
about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and
deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever
greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I
live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present
moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that
self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the
presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help
of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.
end of Father Carter's homily
Song: Live This Day
Jesus: Alanon focuses on
"One day at a time".
Satan comes and wants a person
to be overwhelmed with
the future and tries to
tempt them to flee to be
out of a situation God wills
for their lives.
Satan's pressure to overwhelm a
person and try to get them
to flee their vocation, can
be constant as he presses
and presses on a person
to act.
Without the focus being God and
God's will and right reasoning
the person is lost, when satan
uses faulty reasoning, pressing
the person to engage in run-on
thinking and they give in.
Faith is most important now –
Love of God, others and oneself, but
satan gets in, in pride (a
person thinking they do no wrong).
With this attitude of pride, they
will have nothing to do with themselves
ever being wrong, so they are stuck
serving a false god, the god is
their own infallibility.
Meantime satan moves in as their
best friend, puffing their ego.
Instead of honestly using right
reasoning to access the situation
their goal is being right at all costs –
even when that is at odds with
their vocation and is not working.
What is wrong is what they are
being told by satan about the facts.
R. Discernment is important.
Ideas come from the Holy Spirit.
Ideas come from the devil.
Ideas come from oneself.
Ideas from the devil will tear us
apart if we stay stuck
in them and they will
be opposed to God's will.
Satan wants you to act opposed
to God's will.
Jesus: Satan is a roaring lion looking for
someone to devour.
Satan tells the person they are
all that counts and they become
selfish and caved in –
they don't see the big picture and
others involved –
reasoning is distorted –
Satan plays the blame game and
the person entertaining satan
becomes divided with those
that it is God's will they
work with.
What a mess for the prideful
person seeking to prove
they are right when they
are indeed, wrong.
Satan's way is trying to prove right is wrong
and wrong is right.
A person who is numb doesn't even
recognize they are hurting,
they can strike out at others,
and then blame others when
they are mean and now
filled with unhappiness,
sadness and anger.
Song: Why Do We Hurt the Ones we Love
Jesus: A person who is prideful and
listens to satan – will obey
satan before those in authority
over them.
It is My will you obey just authority
sent from God over you –
when you oppose those I send
for your own will opposed to
My will – you are obeying
satan and disobeying God
so you have trouble due to
your pride and bad choices.
Not trusting those I send, means
you trust yourself and
those who I don't send.
A person who is numb doesn't
want to feel, say for example,
from past hurtful relationships.
So they close down, shut down
and there is not spontaneous
response to the moment –
they are in a state of what
can be almost –
permanent shut-down or
numbness –
People who are numb are afraid
of what they would do if
they faced the truth of
what caused the pain.
When asked about it – they
can look elsewhere and
if they say something
about it – they do not feel –
when they are numb.
One must let go of denial to
get in touch with feelings
from the past.
R. Step 4 says you make a
fearless moral inventory
of yourselves!
Jesus: You must examine messages you
have from how to act in
relationships from past
parental training.
Try to understand how dysfunction
past on to you - could
also have been taught to others.
TRUSTWORTHY –
to grow in relationships –
you must trust
These situations not addressed
force a situation in which
one needs healing.
First to thine own self be
true!!
Dysfunctional homes teach
people not to trust others.
How can you spiritually mature with
this attitude?
Love your life –
Live your life –
Seek life –
Have courage to change!
CHAOS
Satan wants hatred, chaos and
anger in your hearts –
Satan is the grand deceiver.
I am the way, the truth and
the life.
Because of relationships in the past,
a person who is shut-down
can be numb and untrusting.
They were disappointed by people
in relationships who should have
loved them and do not want
any more pain – so they can
become numb and shut down.
They are then lonely because you
were created to love –
to work with each other
in love – to trust those I
put in your lives.
Some are numb, frozen and
afraid, shut-down and
pompous to see themselves
perfect and always right.
They can trust those who they
should not trust and
do not trust those they could.
Have relationships in your lives
been bad – so you have
survival tactics to never
get close or trust anyone.
Relationships – instead of learning
how to love –
can be completely closed.
How were you taught about
relationships as a child,
were some bad and
painful?
For every problem there is a solution.
Believe it – go to God –
Listen to God –
Don't ask in impulsive ways
that give relief instantly,
but make life-long problems.
Seek to do God's will.
Know God is always there and
believe this –
in the silence - wait for
His timing –
Don't try to force a solution
for relief –
(a wrong solution)
Pray for the problem – pray to
the Holy Spirit, believe God will help –
Trust in God
Pray in Church, at least in
quiet –
be quiet in your mind!
Open the Blue Books –
Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus
A person at peace, may have
turmoil, but if you go
deep enough there is
peace and calm.
Think happy thoughts, children
at play, parents and families
loving one another –
don't give into hateful
dark, stagnant thoughts
don't give into
thoughts with no where to go but
down –
don't give into fear –
panic –
satan tricks people to act
in panic
Isaiah 26: 3
This is the plan decreed: you
will guarantee peace, the peace
entrusted to you.
Jesus: Accept God's will; seek God's will,
act according to God's will.
Pray with positive thoughts.
Empty your mind of negative
thoughts, hates,
fears, regrets –
Who is in charge of your thoughts –
Satan wants you fearful dependent
on him.
How are your habits of thinking
positive thoughts?
How are your fears?
Did you ever improve a situation
acting in fear?
In helping others, I can help
myself!
The wife of the alcoholic can
be sicker than the one
drinking.
How were you taught to work
through problems?
Keep it Simple!
Easy Does it!
Let Go and Let God!
Confusion is from satan.
Let go of stubborn
self - will
When a person has lived in fear and
has developed survival tactics –
all they need is a life threatening
situation for their old ways
of handling things to surface.
They can become numb –
shut down –
and forget I am the source
of all hope.
They become locked in a
vault of their own
misery from not seeking
God's solution, but acting
in their paralyzing fear.
R. If my mom died when I was little,
I must learn trust in God regards
sickness or death or I am
vulnerable to bad habits of
behavior regarding sickness
and death.
Fear and running –
September 28, 2014 continues
R. On October 5, 1992 – 22 years ago
I asked God if He wrote a book
what would He say –
He said He would use my
hand!
22 Years Ago
October 5, 1992 - 3:30am
R.
Dear Jesus, Give me
Your hand to write this book for you. I am your servant. I want to
be Your hand to this world. If you, Lord Jesus, would write a book,
what would you say?
Jesus: My dear children,
Today I come to deliver a message to each of
you. I want to tell you of each person's dignity, of their beauty
and their self-worth. Each child is, oh, so uniquely precious to My
Most Sacred Heart. Each child is full of the talents I have given to
them. Each person is divinely created by God and given all these
gifts to be happy and love one another.
The problem comes when you feel you will be
left out. That you will be left by another who has trodden on you
and will do it again. I see you all as My most precious children. I
watch your every move and know all pain and anguish in your heart.
My Heart aches, you have insecure feelings about yourself. I came to
this earth I died for you. I felt cold, hungry, lonely on this
earth. You need not worry that no one knows the pain and anguish in
your heart. God created you with such special gifts and talents. It
is important for you to raise above your wound and forgive those who
hurt you.
You need only turn your will and your life over
to Me and I will guide you in all your ways. I have all the Power.
Many are not of My ways. The key to life is to recognize your
faults, but still know you are this precious gift of My Father a
gift to this world. This world is in need of your strength. Running
yourself down, blaming others hurting them can cause you misery and
pain. At this very moment, you are the precious creation of God!!
You must operate with Me in your heart.
You need not run yourself down. I am with you
every day guiding your ways, lest your foot stumble and you lose
your way. You will not wander far from your path if every day you
keep bringing your focus back to Me. If you dare let Me be at the
helm, if you dare to really let Me run your life, I will do with you
such wonders that you yourself would be amazed. But you will know
with such ease when you did these things that you did not do them
alone. You will know My power, moving the mountain, My power
chipping at the stone, My power working on your hardest problem
and you will be set free.
Oh yes, you will be set free and know a
serenity that only comes from letting go and letting Me run your
life. To you, My child, I have given all that is good. I made you My
holy soldier, My warrior in a world of pain and hatred. You are the
light that shines in the darkness, you are the coat to a cold child,
you are the smile that warms a troubled and lonely heart. You are
the comfort for everyone you meet, because My most precious Heart
powers you, smiles through you, understands and loves through you.
Love your fellows for Me. There are so many
troubled hearts that need to know My love. I can love through you if
you let Me, I can be their friend through you if you let Me. I am He
who comforts you and you are he who comforts them. My power is
endless, it never runs out, there is not a power failure EVER. In
your darkest hour, My light shines in the darkness and I say to you,
"Oh blessed of My Father, look at yourself with awe, you are My
creation, you are indeed so precious to Me, you are My light to this
world, you are My hands and My feet and most of all My Heart."
Oh, you are My loving Heart, to those who are
bowed down, to those who are lost in the darkness, you carry My
smile and wear My armor in a world that is trying to tear one
another down with hate and ugliness. There is gentleness, there is
love, there is hope in you, if you open yourself up to Me. Be My
knight to the world, wear My armor. I am your God and I will protect
you from the darkness. Plug into My power, be not afraid, I go
before you always and you can rest in My arms when you feel weary.
You can put your head in My lap and weep, you will know, I am truly
with you and you are My light to this world. I created you so
special - to cast out fear in the darkness, to clothe the naked, to
give hope to the oppressed, to be as I live in you and love through
you and you are My smile and I touch My hurting ones through your
love.
You are he who loves this world. You must stay
plugged into My power-source This world is
hungry for My love. It needs My love, I give to them through you. I
am your God and I made you as a gift to the world. You are filled.
Focus on Me and your life will be abundant and
whole, joy in suffering, freedom but you can take the knocks
because you will know you do not go it alone, but with Me. I love
you My precious child.
end of excerpt
Excerpt from August 15, 2010
What we do to
others, we do to Jesus,
The 12 steps have helped
many whose
lives have
become
unmanageable because
of
dysfunction due to
pain and
addiction to
something
that relieves that pain.
Addiction can be to substance,
drugs that alter a person's
mind or it can be
addiction to control
addiction to abuse
addiction to persecution
addiction to work
addiction to unavailability
addiction to rage
addiction to excitement
When one rules and they are
addicted they can fall
into denial
and the Merry-Go-Round
called denial keeps it in
place — one person is the addicted
person and another person the enabler keeps
the merry-go-round going —
The addicted person can be
tolerated and
the enabler can
make every
body else live by
dysfunctional
rules — that enables
the person to
continue
their
addiction —
The days go by while
those in a
dysfunctional
family are
robbed of life
while one
forces their rules
on the other
members of
the family so
they can numb
their pain
with their addiction —
Here are the 12 steps
of many who
have worked
through
addiction — after
their lives
became unmanageable
because of
their dysfunction
and their
addiction —
end of excerpt
September 28, 2014 continues
R. What helps a person have
sanity is that one validates
what has happened and you
work through the disturbing
events, but a person in
denial forces others to put
up with their disassociated
behavior –
Over and over again a
trauma that is not validated
because they do not live in
reality and live in denial!
Validation and working
through issues keeps people
sane.
A person who can do what
ever they want contrary to
what they should and refuses
to be accountable and
responsible for their wrong
behavior –
damages the whole family with
the denial and lack of truth
they inflict in hurting others
by division and relationships
that allow hurts continually
to the family –
The man or woman in
denial – disassociates
themselves from the truth –
they have frozen themselves
to normal, spontaneous
reactions to events and problems
because of their own
denial to come out of their
frozen trauma –
Life is to be lived
Relationships to be experienced
according to God's will –
Solving conflicts and
working on deeper
union –
deeper oneness
A person frozen in denial –
is disassociated from the truth –
a mummy going through
motions –
that is frozen and doesn't
feel
And so it is impossible
working in sensitivity
with anyone frozen
in denial and forcing
others to live with their control
and dysfunction –
Unity is the purpose of the
Shepherds of Christ Movement
Teaching people to be in
one mind and one heart –
Living in reality –
Living in the truth –
Living in spontaneity in
the moment –
A person who suffered trauma
and in denial are pretending
they are not hurt – when
in fact they were hurt
very badly –
Unresolved trauma creates
big problems in people's
every day lives such as
Addictive behavior –
to work, to drugs, to abuse –
all in an attempt to push the
emotions and pain out of the
way –
The inner child wants to
resolve the conflict –
the child is stifled
and forced not to feel –
not to talk –
not to trust
REALLY not to live
in the moment –
Running from conflict –
Not solving it as it should
be solved –
not developing conflict skills
in relationships
Avoiding feeling in life
Not believing in themselves –
darkness, seeing themselves
as unworthy and
compensating by running down
others and
trying to validate themselves
as okay
Seeing darkness inside
themselves, failure –
not having goals in
relationships –
hiding behind a dark mask
They have black and white thinking –
they do not see that things
are gray. They see things
as one extreme or the other.
Even when it hurts themselves
to see it in this extreme way –
one way or the other
all black or all white.
They can indulge in love/hate relationships
hurting those who have loved them,
who have trusted them,
even when the person gave them
another chance after they were
so untrustworthy.
Romans 8: 5-9
Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human
nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And
human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to
life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it
does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural
inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural
inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed,
anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
R. People that are in denial and
operating in this severe dysfunction
can experience disassociation –
losing time – missing time, spacing out
they can act like two different people
depending on where they are
and what is going on inside of them
(experiencing denial, suppressing
pain, using addictions to deal with it, etc.)
They can blame themselves, have
deep hidden guilt and cover up the
immense war going on inside of them
in darkness.
Many who have these issues in relationships
with others outside the family,
can have inappropriate attachment
to mother or father figures –
They can have deep depression
because of the disassociation
with themselves and their
own life. They therefore
can compensate by their need
to rescue others and try to live
through others, not themselves.
They can see themselves in
darkness and failure. They
can try to control situations
by passive-aggressive measures,
attacking others through passive
ways in order to punish and hurt
others because of their own failure
to live, really live life.
They can have a fear of people,
a fear of trusting anyone outside their family.
They can have suppressed anger.
Running from your trauma
will not make you feel
better –
Face your trauma for life!
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the Serenity
to accept
the things I cannot change...
Courage to change the things I can
and Wisdom to know the difference.
Sing: Take Lord Receive
TAKE, LORD, AND RECEIVE
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory,
my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have
and possess. Thou hast given all to me. To Thee, O
Lord, I return it. All is Thine, dispose of it wholly
according to Thy will. Give me Thy love and Thy
grace, for this is sufficient for me.
Soul of
Christ
Soul of Christ, sanctify me
Body of Christ, save me
Blood of Christ, inebriate me
Water from the side of Christ wash me
Passion of Christ, strengthen me
O good Jesus, hear me
Within Thy wounds hide me
Permit me not to be separated from Thee
From the wicked foe defend me
at the hour of my death call me
and bid me come to Thee
That with Thy saints I may praise Thee
For ever and ever. Amen.
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12
23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
From The
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p.11
21.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
no decision is made under the influence of any
inordinate attachment
Give the gift that keeps giving this
Christmas!!
This statue was handmade and
hand-painted
and has a little piece of the glass
from the image face of Mary –
PV-Fatima
w/glass
- 27
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PV-Fatima
w/glass
- 18
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PV-Fatima
w/glass
- 15
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OL-Fatima
w/glass
- 18
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PV-Fatima
w/glass
- 12
 |
OL-Fatima
w/glass
- 11
 |
We
cannot
get
these
statues
any
more
–
the
men
making
them
were
from
Portugal
and
no
longer
do
so
We
will
have
a
limited
number
until
they
are
gone
–
These
statues
are
a
treasure,
a
work
of
art
At
the
end
of
this
message
are
healings
from
statues
and
the
Jesus
and
Mary
waters
–
Give
the
gift
that
keeps
giving
in
these
challenging
times
–
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R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
Jack, Jean, Amanda, Special intentions
3) Pray
for the priests, the Church and the world!
4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales &
health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 14 cover; Blue Book
13 – all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on
my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple,
Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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