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                R. We all have needs
                Babies come and God gives mother's
                milk to feed them –
                babies must be taken care of –

                Life is about relationship –

                Mothers and Fathers being there for
                    children –

                When some people get sick – they
                    need to be taken care of –
                    they need food –
                    they need food brought to them –
                    they need somebody to buy their things –

                Going out and buying things can be
                    a big job –

                People need love – need to know
                    they belong - they have a
                    place –

                God has a plan for us in salvation
                    history –

                We will be happiest when we
                    are working His plan –

                We need each other –

                We are to be in relationship
                with God, with others –

                Why do people, if they understand
                relationship, leave out a lot of
                things they should do to love and
                honor God.

                We should pray to God –

                Stay focused how God is over
                    us and we want to follow
                    God's plan –

                God has all the power -

                A man can lose power in
                    a relationship with
                    a woman and try to get power
                    back out of innocent others
                    his whole life –

                    He can lead a life – he feels
                he needs to prove he is in
                charge to get his lost power
                back from a hurt situation.

                    We aren't reactors of
                past relationships – We are
                actors doing what God the
                Father wants of us in our
                life –

                Some people don't learn to love
                    themselves after a hurt
                    relationship –

                A person has a calling from God
                    which is to be carried out –
                    suffering is to lead us to
                    new life –
                    hurtful past is not to shape
                    our future so we live a
                    certain way because
                    of being hurt –

                It's backward –

                God calls us to do His will –

                Not act our whole life in a
                    survival mode because we
                    were wounded –

                To be actors as God calls us and
                    not reactors

                We used to go to Coney Island and
                    we rode the bumper cars –
                    You could get bumped by
                    other cars –
                    all were on the floor and
                    anybody could bump you –

                Somebody could bump you so hard - it
                    felt your neck got out of joint –

                A person that is wounded and doesn't
                    seek healing is like somebody that
                    rides a bumper car and gets
                    bumped real hard –
                    and then goes and bumps others
                        their whole existence because
                        they were bumped and wounded –

                God put us here to do a job –

                If a man has a sore toe – he tries
                    to get it healed –

                A tooth-ache – he tries to get it
                    fixed –

                Why should a man whose heart is
                    broken –
                    like an existence of being
                    out of his heart –
                    mechanical –
                    looking for love in the
                        wrong places –

                God has a plan and His Plan is
                    His Plan –
                    There is order in God's plan

                We see what happened when
                    Eve chose disorder –
                    Eve was under God –
                    God has put order into Creation
                    God has put order into relationships
                    God has put order into things –

                We see the animals - how He instructed
                    Noah to take two of them –

                We see the plants and how they
                    reproduce –

                God has a plan –

                God created the birds of the air –

                All the fish of the sea –

                God has a plan in the life cycle
                    how His creation feeds and lives

                God's plan is so magnificent –
                    with the stars of the sky –
                    to the tiniest bug –

                Why would a person choose
                    disorder against God's will.

                God loves us so much and He gives
                    us rules to follow in this love –

                Because of the wounded human nature and
                    disorder due to sin – men
                    suffer because of other men –

                Jesus showed us how He suffered
                    for our sins –

                Jesus showed us how love gives –

                Jesus showed us how He obeyed
                    the Father's will to His death
                    on the cross –

                Jesus was whipped and beaten and
                    put to death and
                    yet He gave to man His love
                    in giving us baptism and
                    the Church, the sacraments, the priest

                Peace comes from doing God's will –

                    When a person is operating in
                disorder they are trying to live
                in crossing the "man upstairs"

                    A person that lives to do God's
                will is not living their life trying
                to tell themselves their life depends
                on the affection and applause
                of others.

                    It should not matter how we are
                receiving recognition or not –
                what matters is how we are doing
                what God wants. We are here to
                know, love and serve God.

                    Know yourself – Fr. Joe said a
                couple of Sunday's ago. If you want
                peace – you must know yourself –

                    When I see that I have things that
                need to be addressed – I can soon see
                all the good things that are traits
                in me –

                    When a plant needs pruning - it
                grows more when it is cut - back –
                We are here to learn to grow –
                We are here to live as God wants us to live –
                A person may be called by God to
                serve and support another –

                We see that Jesus, the Son of God,
                lived to please His Father and
                Jesus came to serve us.

                    God calls us to examine our
                conscience and to be accountable
                and responsible for our actions –
                Know yourself –
                Confession is a sacrament

                    It takes time to try to understand
                one's actions in relationships with
                others. In failed relationships one
                can sometimes see a pattern in
                their actions because of old wounds.

                Jesus: Know yourself!

                    Live to grow to be more and more
                in My image and likeness. Live
                to love your brothers. What you
                do to others - you do to Me –

                    Examine your conscience.

                    Why do you do what you do?

                Your actions should be the
                    actions your Heavenly
                    Father wishes in your
                    growing more and more in
                    My image and likeness –

                Pray for grace to be loving –
                Pray for grace for greater faith –

                Be a faithful friend – don't
                    isolate from relationships
                    that are God's will because
                    you are afraid.

                Pray for grace for yourself and
                    those you relate with to
                    do God's will.

                Doing God's will brings peace –
                    not living for the admiration
                    or affection of others for your
                    own validation –

                Live to please your Heavenly
                    Father.

                See yourself as you really are –

                Know yourself –

                Some justify and justify themselves
                    which are ways they cover-up
                    their faults –

                Have you arrived – then you are
                    not anywhere –
                    You should be trying to improve
                    your ways – every second you
                    live – until you die.

                R. In the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
                    there is the 4th step –
                    the fearless inventory –
                    this step is crucial to the program –

                None of us are perfect –

                Our lives are to be lived to be
                    more perfect as our Heavenly
                    Father is perfect –

                We must correct the things that
                    keep me from growing –
                    not settle in and try to force
                    others to put up with our
                    faults and sins –

                Jesus: Pray to the Holy Spirit to be humble –
                    to know the truth –
                    Take off the masks –
                    Seek God's will –
                    Live more and more in My
                    image and likeness

           From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.       

The Holy Spirit

Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"

Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.

                Jesus: Admit your faults!

                Seek to grow in holiness.