TALENT

"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible.  Don't hoard it.  Don't dole it out like a miser.  Spend it laviously like a millionaire intent on going broke!"

Brendon Frances

LONELINESS

"The soul hardly realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really homesickness for God."

  Hubert Van Zeller  1905-1984

EVERY MOMENT.....

"Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose.  Time being so precious that God deals it out only second by second.  Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it." 
Archbishop Fulton Sheen 1895-1979

COME AND SEE!

From Sept 11, 2010

Orientation day at Christos!!!  Lord, I'm amazed at you, Lord I'm amazed at you..... how much you love me!  I am awed to find myself in the midst of the richness of the Lord in the people He has gathered together in this class for the next 2 years!!! I am overcome with emotion!

The reading for Lectio Divina:  John 1:37-39  "The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.  And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, "What do you seek?"  They said to Him, "Rabbi, where are You staying?"  He said to them, "COME, AND YOU WILL SEE,"  So they came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day, for it was bout the tenth hour.

What the Lord spoke to me:

Come and see...... the wonders I have to show you!  I will give you the eyes to see as you seek.....They are spiritual eyes.  The eyes of your heart will be enlightened with new sight.  There will be new clarity to what was once foggy or blurry.  The spiritual lens through which you look will have a heightened magnification as if you are looking through a microscope.  Pay attention to detail.  It may seem like progress is slow in this area, but to reap the full benefit of this and absorb it as I would have you do, it will be slow, but it will be constant.  I may even reveal things so subtly to you, that you may no even notice it to begin with....It is when you look, reflect, contemplate and meditate that where I am leading you will come to the surface.  As you move ahead under MY direction, you will blossom and flourish in the rich soil to where I have placed you now.  You will be watered and well fed.  You will grow like that mighty tree planted by streams of water.  Fruit will be bountiful and rich.  Fruit will increase in size til it drops from the tree, which will feed many.  You have positioned yourself.  You have postured yourself under MY direction....to that, MY heart delights!

As I have promised.... as you seek me, you will surely find me!  I long to be found of you!  My longing to be found by you is so much deeper that your desire to find me.  I am the Hound of Heaven and I am pursuing you!  I want to court you in a way you have not known or experienced before.  Your step of obedience has not gone unseen.  It is your gift of love to me.  Your obedience is crucial and I see you are taking step by step obedience...Listen to me.  Listen to the initial promptings of My Spirit within you.  Ask me questions.  Converse with me.  Let us dialogue together our love relationship.  As we dialogue, the level of our intimacy will deepen.  In the stillness of this silent path I am calling you to, you will come to know Me.  It will be deep calling out to deep.  I have set you apart.  Many who know you and love you may not understand you, but that is okay.  I know you and I understand how I wired you.  I created you for Myself!  Bask in that thought!  You do not belong to yourself~you were bought with the precious blood of My Son~ You are mine dear consecrated one!"