Please keep Dave and his wife Val in your prayers, some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. I received this note from Val this morning: "Unfortunately his cancer went out of remission and he has had a lot of very negative symptoms including all of his blood levels being low (pancytopenia) He was hospitalized 5 days last week with febrile neutropenia ( which is a fever in someone with low neutrophils/low white blood cells, a very serious condition). Anyway the doctor is planning to start a new treatment in a week that will be more intense but the goal with of getting him in remission so he can have the stem cell transplant hopefully August/September." This has bee going on for some time and they are weary of the battle so please keep them in your prayers. Thanks.
Divine Mercy in My Soul (St. Faustina’s Diary, excerpt from entry #1486) Conversation of the Merciful God with a Despairing Soul Jesus: O soul steeped in darkness, do not despair. All is not yet lost. Come and confide in your God, who is love and mercy. -But the soul, deaf even to this appeal, wraps itself in darkness. Jesus calls out again: My child, listen to the voice of your merciful Father. -In the soul arises this reply: "For me there is no mercy" […] Jesus: What joy fills My Heart when you return to me. Because you are weak, I take you in My arms and carry you to the home of My Father. Soul (as if awaking, asks fearfully): Is it possible that there yet is mercy for me? Jesus: There is, My child. You have a special claim on My mercy. Let it act in your poor soul; let the rays of grace enter your soul; they bring with them light, warmth, and life. Soul: But fear fills me at the thought of my sins, and this terrible fear moves me to doubt Your goodness. Jesus: My child, all your sins have not wounded My Heart as painfully as your present lack of trust does, that after so many efforts of My love and mercy, you should still doubt My goodness. Soul: O Lord, save me yourself, for I perish. Be my Savior. O Lord, I am unable to say anything more; my pitiful heart is torn asunder; but You, O Lord... Jesus does not let the soul finish but, raising it from the ground, from the depths of its misery, he leads it into the recesses of His Heart where all its sins disappear instantly, consumed by the flames of love. Jesus: Here, soul, are all the treasures of My Heart. Take everything you need from it. Soul: O Lord, I am inundated with Your grace. I sense that a new life has entered into me and, above all, I feel Your love in my heart. That is enough for me. O Lord, I will glorify the omnipotence of Your mercy for all eternity. Encouraged by Your goodness, I will confide to You all the sorrows of my heart. Jesus: Tell me all, My child, hide nothing from Me, because My loving Heart, the Heart of your Best Friend, is listening to you. Soul: O Lord, now I see all my ingratitude and Your goodness. You were pursuing me with Your grace, while I was frustrating Your benevolence. […] Jesus (interrupting): Do not be absorbed in your misery—you are still too weak to speak of it—but, rather, gaze on My Heart filled with goodness, and be imbued with My sentiments. Strive for meekness and humility; be merciful to others, as I am to you; and, when you feel your strength failing, if you come to the fountain of mercy to fortify your soul, you will not grow weary on your journey. […]
Thank you for this. I was just about to look for it online because I left that little Blue Divine Mercy booklet with this exact quote in it at my son's house where his brother is now living, in the hope that he would pick it up one day and have a spiritual moment. It is my solitary hope for my Borderline son. But it certainly works for this and many other instances.
All seems very lost and bleak at the moment but trying to keep going. I feel like I am the worst in the world right now.
Luke 18: 13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
It is not because I have been preserved from mortal sin that I lift up my heart to God in trust and love. I feel that even had I on my conscience every crime one could commit, I should lose nothing of my confidence: my heart broken with sorrow, I would throw myself into the Arms of my Saviour. I know that He loves the Prodigal Son, I have heard His words to St. Mary Magdalen, to the woman taken in adultery, and to the woman of Samaria. No one could frighten me, for I know what to believe concerning His Mercy and His Love. And I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace. (Autobiography of St. Therese of the Child Jesus)
Can you go to Mass or Adoration anywhere? I was just at Adoration remembering you about 2 hours ago..
