Daily Positive Thread for Thursday

gloriajean — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 02:08:04 GMT

Hello my friends! The sun came out today - and that was a blessing! It may freeze tonight enough for me to cover up our geraniums and when my husband gets home he can put the pots in the garage for the winter. We have a heated garage, and keep it around 40 degrees so our potatoes, apples and the plants won't freeze. Talked a few times with him on the phone - those cell phones are a blessing! I'm anxious for him to come home tomorrow night (Thursday). Can you name at least one blessing of yours?

Do not worry about tomorrow. Do you not have enough to be busy with
today? Lord, help me use today wisely so that I have time for myself
and others.

Scripture of the day:

"As for that in the good soil, these are the ones who, when they hear
the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit
with patient endurance." ~Luke 8:15

Meditation for the day:

The laws of nature cannot be changed and must be obeyed if we are to
stay healthy. No exceptions can be made in our case. We can submit
to the laws of nature or they will finally break us. And in the realm
of the spirit, in all human relationships, we can submit to the moral
laws and to the will of God. If we continue to break the laws of
honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, we can be broken to some
extent ourselves. The moral and spiritual laws of God, like the laws
of nature, are unbreakable without some disaster. If we are dishonest,
impure, selfish and unloving, we are not living according to the laws
of the spirit and we may suffer the consequences.

Prayer for the day:

I pray that I may submit to the laws of nature and to the laws of God.
I pray that I may live in harmony with all the laws of life.

FIFTEEN MINUTES WITH JESUS

It is not necessary, my son, to know a lot to please me a lot; it is enough
to love me with fervor. Speak to me, simply like you would speak to your
mother, to your brother. Do you need to make me any supplication in favor of
somebody? Tell me their names, that of your parents, or your brothers,
sisters, friends... tell me what you want me to do for them. Pray a lot, a
lot, don't hesitate in requesting; I like the generous hearts that end up
forgetting, in certain way, themselves, to assist the other people's
necessities. Speak this way to me, with simplicity, about the poor to whom
you wanted to console, of the sick persons to whom you see suffering, of the
misplaced ones that you yearn to return to the good way, of the absent
friends that you wanted to see another time to your side. Ask me for a
friendly word for all of them, beloved and fervorous word . Remind me that I
have promised to listen all supplications that comes from the heart; and
shouldn't it come from your heart your prayer for those that your heart
especially love?

And for you, don't you need some grace? Make me, if you want, a list of your
necessities, and come, read it in my presence. Tell me frankly that you feel
arrogance, love to sensuality and pleasure; that you are perhaps selfish,
fickle, negligent...; and ask me to come in help of the efforts, few or
many, that you make to remove of you such miseries.

Do not be embarrassed, poor soul! There are in heaven so many Saints of
first order that had those same defects! But they prayed with humility...;
and little by little they were free of them.

Neither hesitate in requesting me spiritual and corporal goods: health,
memory, success in your works, business or studies; I can give you all that,
I wish you to ask me for it, and I will give it to you, if it is not an
obstacle for your sanctification, on the contrary, if it should help to your
sanctification. Actually, what do you need? what can I do for you? If you
knew the desires that I have of favoring you!

Do you at hand any project right now? Tell me everything minutely. What are
you worried about? what do you think? what do you want? what do you want me
to do for your brother, for your friend, for your superior? what would you
want me to do for them?

And for Me? Don't you feel desires of my glory? Don't you want to be able to
make some good to your neighbours, to your friends that you love a lot, who
may be living forgotten of Me?

Tell me what thing particularly calls your attention today, what you yearn
more vividly, and what sources you have to get it. Tell me if your project
is not successful, and I will tell you the causes of the bad success.
Wouldn't you want me to be interested in your favor? My son, I am the owner
of the hearts, and sweetly I take them, without damage of their freedom,
wherever I want.

Do you maybe feel sadness or bad humor? Tell me, tell me, forlorn soul, your
sadness with all their details. Who did hurt you? Who did hurt your pride?
who has rejected you? Come closer to my Heart that has effective balm to
cure all those wounds of yours. Give me details of everything, and you will
end up shortly telling me that, to likeness of Me, you forgive everything,
you forget all, and in payment you will receive my comforting blessing.

Are you feared? Do you feel in your soul those vague melancholies that far
from being groundless, they leave of being harrowing? Throw yourself in my
arms of providence. I am with you; here, you have me by your side; I see it
all, I hear it all, neither a moment I abandon you.

Do you feel deviation on behalf of people that before loved you well, and
now they move away from you, without giving you the smallest reason? Pray
for them, and I will return them to your side, if they are not an obstacle
to your sanctification.

And don't you have something happy, perhaps, to communicate Me? Why don't
you make me participant as an special friend of yours?

Tell me how your heart has felt consoled and smiley, since yesterday, since
the last visit you made me. You have maybe had pleasant surprises, you have
maybe been dissipated black mistrust, you have maybe received happy news,
some letter or sample of affection; you have conquered some difficulty, or
solved a complicated problem. I've done all that, and I have provided it to
you: why shouldn't you show me your gratitude, and tell me simply, as a son
does to his father: «Thank you, my Father, thank you!»? The gratefulness
bring with itself new benefits, because the benefactor likes to be
corresponded.

Neither you have a promise to make me? I read, you already know it, in the
bottom of your heart. Men are deceived easily; God is not. Speak to me,
then, with all sincerity. Do you have firm resolution of not exposing
yourself to that sin occasion again? of depriving you of that object that
damaged you? of not reading again that book that exalted your imagination?
of not treating again that person that upset the peace of your soul?

Will you be sweet, kind and condescending again with that person that,
because having lacked you, you have considered until today as an enemy?

Now then, my son; return to your usual occupations, to your work, to the
family, to the study... but don't forget the fifteen minutes of pleasing
conversation that we have had both here, in the solitude of the sanctuary.
Keep, as soon as you can, silence, modesty, withdrawal, resignation, charity
with the neighbor.
Love my Mother, who is also yours, the Sacred Virgin, and return again
tomorrow with the most loving heart, more surrendered to my service.
In my Heart, you will find every day new love, new benefits, new comforts.

Mother Teresa Said...

"If we are careful of silence it will be easy to pray and to pray fervently.
There is so much talk, so much repetition,
so much carrying of tales in words and in writing.
Our prayer life must suffer so much because our hearts are not silent,
for as you know "only in the silence of the heart, God speaks."
Only after we have listened can we speak from the fullness of our hearts."

Blessed are you
when you remain available
sharing in simplicity what you possess

Blessed are you
when you weep over the absence of happiness around you
and throughout the world

Blessed are you
when you strive to take the first steps,
the necessary one, to attain peace with
your brothers and sisters, throughout the world

Blessed are you
when you take seriously your faith
in the risen Jesus

- - -
Luke 7:22 - (Jesus said) "The blind can see, the lame can walk, those who
suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf can hear, the
dead are raised to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor. How
happy are those who have no doubts about me!"

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