I feel kind of sad tonight. I have worked in the same place for over seven years and never realised the dishonesty of a lot of people around me until tonight. But I put this post in the question and answer section because my sadness and anger at the actions of others causes me to ask questions of myself..questions that I wonder at. Why should I feel sad and angry at the faults of others when I should be in a rage and weeping at my own faults? But this is our mutual failing, to see so clearly the sins of others and be so totally blind to our own failings. Still part of me , a small part is happy and relieved. Happy I still possess a certain, well more than a certain innocence.. that all those years I never realised. Also I am a little happy that I still possess the capacity to be saddened and a little shocked. Lord remove the false innocense the blindness that makes me fail to see my own sins...and having at last uncovered them , grant me the capacity, the great grace , to be shocked and saddened at them ,as I am at the faults of others. Lord, tonight, let me change the whole world, beginning with myself.
You know I have often thought that the worst thing in the world would be to wake up in the morning and not be able to look yourself in the face. But perhaps and even worse thing would be to wake up in the morning , look in the mirror and not realise for a moment the thing that might be staring back at you. Perhaps this is why people no longer believe in hell or sin. They have long since failed to see the grinning monster in the mirror in the morning's light.
I will pray in union with this sadness that you offer up as I know offerings upwards from good souls like yourself Padraig will make a big difference in this big bad world. God bless, and thanks for the wonderful insight also.
I've been told in prayer that my work place is being sifted, and to expect personal attacks. I am praying for them all, that they will pass this test. Last week I was fretting about all the people who are absolutely clueless about the storm that is upon us. I was told, quite firmly, in prayer, that everyone knows. They can numb the knowledge, they can deny the knowledge, but they know. I've also been told that the whole world is in the valley of decision. We need to pray like never before.
You know Kathy these are exactly my prayerful feelings EXACTLY. Amazing. ...or maybe not amazing at all since we are both getting this from God.
Padraig, Since we have access to the many warnings, and since Our Lady takes us by the hand to lead us before the Throne of God, the responsibility to stand in the breach is great. I am small and weak, but the purity of Mary's Heart gives me confidence! A child in the Father's Lap!
I feel your sadness too Padraig and my own soul weeps often for the filth of my own sins that I sit in. It is tough to love the Lord or rather come to an understanding of how much you do indeed love the Lord as I have this past year and half now of my own reversion back, and then realize in your own heart how much your have displeased Him in the past. The guilt and sorrow for self becomes huge and then you look around and see so much sin, and filth and disgust around you and then exponentially feel worse. All we can do is pray and trust but the horror of one's own filth and unworthiness of such great love and mercy is hard pill to swallow some time. I often put myself right there in the sorrow of the passion and even go so far as to focus so much on that sorrow but sometimes I think we need to focus on the great love and joy especially that love and joy that our Holy parents Mary and Joseph must have felt at the birth of the Lord. Today I am trying to focus more on this joy and hopefully by feeling and reflecting on this joy we too can help spread some much needed joy and love to the world amidst all its pain, sorrows, fears and filth. I have changed my avatar to focus on this wonderful joy the Holy Family felt in holding their son, Our Savior at His birth.
The enemy accuses; the Lord convicts. Once our sins are confessed, they are out of the Lord's memory - ask for a cleansing of your own memories as well! True humility is truth - He is God and I am not. It is also true that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, that we are the apple of His eye, that He loved us into existence and equipped us specifically for THIS HOUR - which is an unfathomable honor! I loved the part of Verne's messages where the Lord confronted him, corrected him, for saying, "I am worthless; I am weak." Verne was told, "You are not worthless, and you are not weak. You are not worthy." That has really helped me. When I think of past sins, I pray, "Lord, I am not worthy, but I am so grateful!!!" http://www.godspeakswillyoulisten.org/index.html
Funnily enough the guy in worl who had me thinking about dishonesty is very seriously ill in hospital after taking what looks at some kind of brain aneurism. He is only 23 years old. I resolved to pray for him at mass this morning before hearing the news. I was concerned he might turn angry and even violent at work towards me. Life is so, so strange. In this life we will never know how often the hand of God touches our lives and the lives of others. But sometimes I can sense a breeze as His Hand goes by. Please pray for him, he needs your prayers in so very many ways..and his family/
Wow! He's in my prayers. And what an awesome example of the protection of the Lord in these dark days. I've been hearing over and over in prayer: Nobody touches my bride. I believe we are seeing, and will see with greater frequency and power, something rare in the modern world - the jealousy of God for His people. The enemies of God can and will attack His bride, but even if we don't see it immediately, it will cost them dearly. (ISIS - look out!) Remember this from a few weeks ago? Nigeria's Boko Haram attacks a Church, but flees from bees and snakes Terrorists, assumed to be Boko Haram, killed dozens of people on Sunday in an attack on three villages in northeast Nigeria, including one targeting worshippers at a church. That attacks took place only a few miles from Chibok, where Boko Haram abducted over 200 schoolgirls several weeks ago. There are new terrorist attacks every few days in Nigeria, including gunfights, suicide and car bombs, and abductions of young girls and boys. The Nigerian army and government is viewed as helpless against the crimes of Boko Haram. However, Boko Haram may be facing a new enemy, which they themselves fear may be supernatural. Some members of Boko Haram have been arrested while fleeing a forest hideout because of what they believe are spiritual attacks from mysterious snakes and bees, which had killed many of their leaders. According to one of the fleeing terrorists: Most of us are fleeing because there are too many snakes and bees now in the forest. Once they bite, they disappear and the victims do not last for 24 hours. We were told that the aggrieved people who had suffered from our deadly mission, including the ghosts of some of those we killed, are the ones turning into the snake and bees. Our leaders fled, too. According to another member, "They believe the Chibok people are using juju to pursue us because of their children said to have been taken by our leaders." Reuters and Vanguard (Nigeria) http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/...tacks-a-Church-but-flees-from-bees-and-snakes Something much worse than juju - It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!
Just read this message from a protestant prophet on afterthewarning.com: "THE GREAT I AM HAS SPOKEN THIS DAY" August 6th, 2014 Daughter of the most high God, cry not dear one for all that must take place. All that has been done will now be undone, the end from the beginning. I will overturn all things. There is nothing new under the sun. What has been spoken forth will ensue. The horsemen ride, death and destruction run rampant in the earth. The wages of sin is death, it is all around you. Run to the fountains of My mercy as the rebellion of the wicked overshadows the earth. I will turn My face no longer from the mockery and the blatant rebellion of a people defiant and hard-hearted. Justice will be served. Great and terrible things will befall your lands as My sword brings down all that is not of Me. Be still and know that the Great I AM has spoken and all will come to pass. Hearken to My voice as I thunder across the globe. Those that have defied Me will know their demise. All must be torn down in order that it may be raised up again, glorious and new, pure and radiant with My light as it was purposed in the beginning. To understand the beginning is to know the end and My children the end is come. The very foundations of creation are being shaken as all creation groans for My return. The very rocks cry out for deliverance from the curse of these fallen lands. Whoa to the inhabitants of these lands for I say to you Babylon is fallen! Babylon is fallen! The mountains will be made low and I will withhold the crops and their yield. Your waters will be poisoned and their nourishment withheld. The skies will roll back as a scroll and chaos will overtake your lands. Here Me My people, for the Lord God Yaweh has spoken it! I will be exalted among the heathens, I will be exalted in all the lands. Stand aside My Bride , My set-apart ones as My indignation passes and allow Me to hide you under My pavilion, under the shadow of My wings for I will provide for you and protect you always. As you stand on the solid ground of My truth and My Word, you, My end-time warriors will be endowed with all spiritual gifts from above. You will be used mightily to wield My Sword of Righteousness as I manifest Myself in and through you for all to behold. Let the glory of the Lord rise amongst you now. You have been infused as One in Spirit with My Son and with Me. Raise the standard and declare My people the Day of the Lord is upon you! THE GREAT I AM-THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY YOUR ABBA FATHER http://iamcallingyounow.blogspot.com/
I have long since , Kathy been of the firm belief that the best way to obtain protection from our enemies is to pray for them. One of the Fathers of the Desrt said that in praying for them , 'We rain coals of the fires of Charity on their heads'. I always thought this was a lovely way of putting it. So tonight let us pray for the warriors of the Islamic Caliphate.
Romans 12: 20 "But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head." 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
It's so interesting that you write this Kathy. I've really been struggling the past few months at my job juggling "making a living" and the fact that I know it's all for naught as the changes and tribulations will soon be here. I'm sitting back saying why am I wasting my time working at what are the most inane things while I could be preparing both physically and spiritually for the great changes that are coming. I guess what keeps me going is I'm financially responsible for so many people right now that it would be a disservice to them if I just stopped. There are a few co-workers that are aware but most are in same position as me.
Don't underestimate the value of your presence in the workplace. I read years ago (maybe in the Way of the Pilgrim) about a pilgrim who would go out of his way to walk through a town, reasoning that it would help the people to be in the presence of a baptized person!
Miker, I wonder if many of us have some bordem or anxiety in our work today. My mind is constantly thinking of the Divine and then work kicks in and sometimes so intense that my mind is not on God, but into my work. Then a task is over and right away I think of God again and feel somewhat 'dazed' that I had to enter the world when my heart wants to never leave God. Yet I know that in doing my work I am doing the will of God. Then I relect for a minute how wonderful it will be to never have to worry about leaving God's presence one day and it makes me happy to know that this is where my heart wants to be perpetually.
Perhaps the hardest and most wonderful saying in all of scripture, Terry. You know I find it much easier to forgive the big things than the small ones. The big ones come slamming through the front door and you have to face them. The small ones are like little mice that squeeze into the house through the little holes. At evening time at the close of day I walk the dogs in a very quiet spot by the sea and reserve that time for prayer for this forum and all on it. But I notice how my thoughts stray to work during the day and I kind of centre on some little slight or problem at work during the day. I honestly believe that this is often the devil stirring the pot. Yes the actual devil taking an interest. So if we are not careful and humour these thoughts a little mouse can become a raging lion.
