AND IF I GO..........

And if I go, while you're still here......

Know that I still live on, vibrating to a different measure-behind a thin veil you cannot see through.

You will not see me, so you must have faith.

I wait the time when we can soar together again,-both aware of each other.

Until then, live your life to its fullest.  And when you need me, just whisper my name in your heart, ...I will be there.

        

                A Butterfly

A Butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam.  And for a brief moment its glory and beauty belongs to our world.

    But then it flies on again, and though we wish it could have stayed, we feel lucky to have seen it.

        

January 2, 2009

Arm of Love

YOU are to help to save others.  Never let one day pass when you have not reached out an arm of Love to someone outside your home- a note, a letter, a visit, help in some way.

  Be full of Joy.  Joy saves.  Joy cures.  Joy in me.  In every ray of sunlight, every smile, every act of kindness, or love, every trifling service joy.

  Each day do something to lift another soul out of the sea of sin, or disease of doubt into which man has fallen.  I still walk to-day by the lakeside and call My Disciples to follow Me and to become fishers of men.

  The helping hand is needed that raises the helpless to courage, to struggle, to faith, to health.  Love and laugh.  Love and laughter are the beckoners to faith and courage and success.  Trust on, love on, joy on.

  Refuse to be downcast.  Refuse to be checked in your upward climb.  Love and laugh.  I am with you.  I bear your burdens.  Cast your burden upon Me and I will sustain thee.  And then in very lightheartedness you turn and help another with the burden that is pressing to heavily upon him or her.

  How many burdens can you lighten this year?  How many hearts can you cheer?  How many souls can you help?

   And in giving you gain:  "Good measure, pressed down and running over."  I your Lord have said it.

        

January 1

Between the Years

      Our Lord and our God.  We joy in Thee.  Without Thy Help we could not face unafraid the year before us.

I STAND between the years.  The Light of My Presence is flung across the year to come-the radiance of the Sun of Righteousness.  Backward, over the past year, is My Shadow thrown, hiding trouble and sorrow and disappointment.

  Dwell not on the past-only on the present.  Only use the past as the trees use My Sunlight to absorb it, to make from it in after days the warming fire-rays.  So store only the blessings from Me, the Light of the World.  Encourage yourselves by the thought of these.

  Bury every fear of the future, of poverty for those dear to you, of suffering, of loss.  Bury all thought of unkindness and bitterness, all your dislikes, your sentiments, your sense of failure, your disappointment in others and in yourselves, your gloom, your despondency, and let us leave them all, buried, and go forward to a new and risen life.

  Remember that you must not see as the world sees.  I hold the year in My Hands-in trust for you.  But I shall guide you one day at a time.

  Leave the rest with Me.  You must not anticipate the gift by fears of thoughts of the days ahead.

  And for each day I shall supply the wisdom and the strength.

        

December 31

Jesus the Conqueror

JESUS.  That is the Name by which you conquer.     JESUS.  Not as cringing suppliants but as those recognizing a friend, say My Name-JESUS.  "Thou shall call His Name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins."

  And in that word "sins" read not only vice and degradation, but doubts, fears, tempers, despondencies, impatience, lack of Love in big and little things.  JESUS.  "He shall save His people from their sins."  The very uttering of the Name lifts the soul away from petty valley-irritations to mountain heights.

  "He shall save His People from their sins."   Saviour and Friend, Joy-bringer and Rescuer, Leader and Guide-JESUS.  Do you need delivering from cowardice, from adverse circumstances, from poverty, from failure, from weakness?

  "Here is none other Name...whereby you can be saved"-Jesus.  Say it often.  Claim the Power it brings.

        

December 30

Fishers of Men

WHEN you think of those of whom you read who are in anguish do you ever think how My heart must ache with the woe of it, with the anguish of it?

  If I beheld the city and wept over it how much more should I weep over the agony of these troubled hearts, over lives that seek to live without My sustaining Power. 

  "They will not come unto Me that they might have Life."

  Live to bring others to Me, the only Source of happiness and heart-Peace.

        

December 29

Work and Prayer

WORK and prayer represent the two forces that will ensure your success.  Your work and My work.

  For prayer, believing prayer, is based on the certainty that I am working for you and with you and in you. 

Go forward gladly and unafraid.  I am with you.  With men your task may be impossible, but with God all things are possible.

        

December 25

Signs and Feelings

     Our Lord, Thou art here.  Let us feel Thy nearness.

I AM HERE.  Do not need feeling too much.  To ask for feeling too much is to ask for a sign, and then the answer is the same as that I gave when on earth.  "There shall  no sign be given but the sign of the prophet Jonas... For as Jonas was three days and three nights...  so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

  Veiled from sight to the unbeliever.  To the believer the veiling is only temporary, to be followed by a glorious resurrection...

  What does it matter what you feel?  What matters is what I am, was, and ever shall be to you-A Risen Lord....The feeling that I am with you may depend upon any passing mood of yours-upon a change of circumstances, upon a mere trifle.

  I am uninfluenced by circumstances... My Promise given is kept.  I am here, one with you in tender loving friendship.

        

December 27

Glorious Work

I HAVE stripped you of much, that it should be truly a life of well-being.  Build up stone by stone upon a firm foundation, and that Rock is your master-that Rock is Christ.

  A life of discipline and of joyous fulfillment is to be yours... Never lose sight of the glorious work to which you have been called.

  Let no riches, no ease entice you from the path of miracle-working with Me upon which your feet are set.  Love and Laugh.  Trust and pray.  Ride on now in a loving humility to victory.

        

December 26

Health and Wealth

BE not afraid, health and wealth are coming to you both.  My wealth which is sufficiency for your needs, and for My work you long to do.

  Money, as some call wealth, to hoard, to display, you know is not for My Disciples.

  Journey through this world simply seeking the means to do My Will and work.  Never keep anything you are not using.  Remember all I give you will be Mine, only given to you to use.  Could you think of Me hoarding My Treasures?  You must never do it.  Rely on Me.

  To store for the future is to fear and to doubt me.  Check every doubt of Me at once.  Live in the Joy of My constant Presence.  Yield every moment to Me.  Perform every task, however humble, as at My gentle bidding, and for Me, for love of Me.  So live, so love, so work.

  You are the Apostles of the Little Services.