Love Letter to God the Almighty

Book of Genesis, Yahweh “breathed into his nostrils a breath of Life, and thus man was born.” By choosing to believe in Love, we breathe our breath into that Love, giving Love that authority

Dear Love,

A vision has emerged through You and for You
Heaven and earth inter-communicating
A bridge connecting the two to be walked on
Rising to the union of God, marrying us to You

A little house on a prairie
Deemed a place that is Holy and True
where we, your creation, can reel in our society
and how far it has gone away from You

A chapel that worships your Grace
Made by our human hands
in the hands of time
placed in the hands of God

A kitchen connected to rooms
that heal, fast, and find your glory
Wipe clean ego and self
healing that comes from a super natural source
without our savior, Jesus Christ, we are stuck in our sin

A garden that is tilled for the Glory of God
that can feed us
Nourish our knowledge in the Tree of Life

A place that earnestly seeks Your Will
A place that is not flattened out by secularism

A community, a holy shroud
that has undying faith and never loses hope
A people who find ways to come together in love.
Sacrifice to protect one another
Unify our building blocks, our God given gifts
to build our future
A people who together not finding divides.
Knowledge that we are together
and stronger in You

Magic Doors leading to You
Entering saying to each other “darling I’m here for you”
Offering our true presence to each other
Breathing together
Doors leading to
acceptance
gratitude
true self-esteem
intuition
compassion
inner peace
faith
one-ness
devotion

A place where we can be inside of you
and you inside of us

We Are An Easter People

Father Robert Barron relates that everything in Christianity boils down to the fact that God raised Jesus from the dead – a very mystical act indeed for us to believe and trust. And going forward understand that we are a Easter people everyday and a mystical people that will not let doubt interfere with what we were born to do. Just as Jesus knew what he was born to do and accomplished it. He is our Guide, our hub to the wheel of life where we are the spokes, our Yogi who is alive and well today living and breathing through us.

“Everything said by Augustine, Aquinas, Francis of Assisi, Dante, Teresa of Avila, Thérèse of Lisieux, Pascal, Newman, Chesterton, and John Paul II comes down to the declaration that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Every act of every saint is related to the fact of the Resurrection.

Over the centuries, various thinkers and theologians have tried to maintain that Christianity is fundamentally a moral system at whose center stands the command to love God and neighbor. Some have wanted to strip Christianity of its mystical and supernatural elements, turning the Resurrection into a pleasant myth or an evocative symbol.

But St. Paul gives the lie to these reductionistic interpretations: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile.”

In other words, what your faith comes down to is the conviction that God the Father has raised his Son from the realm of the dead. Everything else in Christianity—ritual, liturgy, theology, morality—flows from this fact and is related to it.” -Father Barron

Jesus said, “Whoever believes the Truth will hear my voice.”

Happy Easter to my people! Thanks for all you are and all you are here to be. XXO, Missy

Love Is A Force Multiplier

I love Marianne Williamson! Her voice is loud and clear and speaking Truth. I discovered her book, Return to Love, in 2014 when my mom was ill and since then have cherished and listened to her words. They resonate where I feel like we are similar. I’m underneath it all now bubbly because she began a exploratory to examine running for president and two weeks ago announced “Now is our time.”

This video I listened to today on Valentines Day 2019 from a TED Talk in Traverse City, Mi. in 2013. I was like ok I’ll listen in real quick b/c I love Traverse and live in Mi. She ‘s a maverick and been talking and giving speeches and lectures like this for 30 years professionally. So she’s not new to speaking and creating dynamism.

In her own words, “May it manifest in a way that is light and a blessing and a gift to us all. I’m going to lay it down as best I can. About the story of America. About our democracy. About our economy and our economic system. About our children. About race. About waging peace. And every other topic that has been gathering steam in my heart just waiting for the day when I could sing it out loud and shout it out as best I can. I’m going to do my best to do my best. With your help, and with God’s, something incredible can happen here. Many thanks to all of you. God Bless the world.” – Marianne Williamson

Ephphatha — that is, Be opened!

When we consider Jesus’ healings in the light of God’s coming kingdom we might be surprised not by the power of God’s plan, but by the gentleness of his love. God’s rule is made manifest not in a display of power, subjugating all of humanity to himself by force, but in the renewed humanity of a once-mute man.

God’s kingship is not imposed on the world from outside, as though he would oppress us with his power. Rather, God’s rule takes root in the renovation of human hearts. – Fr. Daniel O’Mullane

Beautifully written Homily (or perfect words) for today’s reading, Father Dan. Thank You! Wanted to share your thoughts with others who are out there wondering what Jesus is up to. Read complete post on Father Dan’s Blog

for Homily for the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sept 5, 2018.

 

Going Into The Desert – Lent 2016

desert-morning-1526792Going into the Desert is an Initiation

Spirit leads us there

A period of testing before real work begins

Desert strips away distractions so only fundamentals are left

Essentials are life or death

Confronting negative feelings and things in life

First Temping, life is not about sensual pleasures, don’t make sensual pleasures your dominant

most basic is what is the will and purpose of God

Life is not about sensuals, basics first

Word of God is the most basic, listen and trust

Are sensuals too close to the center of my life

Second Temping is the lure of power and glory

All kingdoms of the earth are entwined with sin

Instead say yes to God and the Will of God

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Third Temping is making the ego first

There are purposes for you that God has willed

Are you in charge of your life, putting yourself at the center

or Are you saying yes to what God willed for you?

Your life is not about you, its about God and his purposes for you

Lukian account: You shall not put the Lord God to the test

You test God, you put yourself at the center of the temple

Are you putting yourself before God

Are you the center of attention

or Are you willing to do the will of God

Above my translation from Father Barron’s first Lenten homily “Three Questions From The Desert”

arizonadesert-8-1559425We must listen and trust our Godvoice, we are not strong enough to do half of what we are destined to do, that’s why we must realize that God is leading. He’ll lead, we’ll bring his ways into the visible. -MJM

Age Of The Messiah

candle-1421437Candlemas Ritual for Humanity
Ushers in Law to redeem through sacrifice
Christ embeds himself into us
Accepts and chooses us to be His people
God bears divine presence
So the world can communicate with
One True God

Suffering a sacrifice, redemptive offering,
Accomplishes reconciliation with God
God is with humanity through Christ

Christ’s entering into this ritual, into the temple
Begins the effecting of the restoration
Setting all people in right relationship
With God

St. Luke’s Gospel says this is
the Revelation of the Divine Presence

Christ enters and a new age begins for the world
The Age of The Messiah
God with us

Candle recalls divine presence as a “pillar of fire”
Christ Pillar of Fire
Lead us

What’s the Purpose of Suffering?

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True Love Seeks the Highest Heights:
We are God’s Beloved.  Genuine love seeks the best for us. No suffering is ultimately meaningless or pointless. We believe that a loving God is providentially orchestrating all things, in a way that upholds our freedom. For that reason we believe that when God allows us to suffer, He is doing so to protect us from a greater evil, or to lift us to a far greater and outweighing good.

 

everybody-have-their-cross-to-carry-1302969-mTrue Love Allows Freedom of Will:
God sometimes allows suffering into our lives to provoke us to search for Him.

True Love Grants Opportunity:
God gives us opportunities to love Him, give glory to His Holy Name, to merit glory, and to participate in His work of redemption.

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True love accepts, trusts, and grows.

Heaven In A Wild Flower

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An early morning walk began through the back entrance of a garden sanctuary. The fields were damp with the morning dew and the sun postured itself for a glorious autumn day. You can barely see anything, its a messy weedy field, un-kept at the moment. Perfect for my feelings.

 

 

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Coming from behind, the white cross hidden above the purple plum leaves, I love the way the cross appears light amid the dark leaves. And the high heavens above for the cross to bloom infinitely.

 

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I kneel beneath the cross, recite my thoughts into prayers, speaking to our creator, a way to being whole, hearing my heart, laying down my burdens, side by side.

 

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Followed my eyes to these beauties….nature doesn’t think, it unfolds in perfect harmony to the rhythm of the universe.

 

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Looking and being one with nature is a sure way to find your ohm and begin to understand our human nature through the fine details of mother nature.

 

 

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If they could speak,

“Good morning, my love. Watch me grow. And know everything that’s broke, leave it to the breeze.”HK9RU1o20sazzzIV16HWO3WA4DWAExstA-YkA50OEHQ

Upon leaving, Mother Mary meets me, we talk and say the Rosary together. So me, how I go in the exit and leave through the entrance. A sign, I see across the way, surely was supposed to meet me as I entered. But really fit for me to read on the way out.

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Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist, Pope Francis, and Holy Miracle

In 1996 in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, Argentina, when the present Pope Francis was Auxiliary Bishop under Cardinal Quarracino, an amazing Eucharistic miracle took place. He himself had it photographed and investigated and the results are astonishing.

At seven o’clock in the evening on August 18, 1996, Fr. Alejandro Pezet was saying Holy Mass at a Catholic church in the commercial center of Buenos Aires. As he was finishing distributing Holy Communion, a woman came up to tell him that she had found a discarded Host on a candle holder at the back of the church. On going to the spot indicated, Fr. Alejandro saw the defiled Host. Since he was unable to consume it, he placed it in a container of water and put it away in the tabernacle of the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.

On Monday, August 26, upon opening the tabernacle, he saw to his amazement that the Host had turned into a bloody substance. He informed Bishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis, Auxiliary Bishop that time), who gave instructions that the Host be professionally photographed. The photos were taken on September 6. They clearly show that the Host, which had become a fragment of bloodied flesh, had grown significantly in size. For several years the Host remained in the tabernacle, the whole affair being kept a strict secret. Since the Host suffered no visible decomposition, Cardinal Bergoglio (Who became Archbishop by that time) decided to have it scientifically analyzed.realbody

On October 5, 1999, in the presence of the Cardinal’s representatives, Dr. Castanon took a sample of the bloody fragment and sent it to New York for analysis. Since he did not wish to prejudice the study, he purposely did not inform the team of scientists of its provenance (the source of sample was kept secret to the scientists).

One of these scientists was Dr. Frederic Zugiba, the well-known cardiologist and forensic pathologist. He determined that the analyzed substance was real flesh and blood containing human DNA. Zugiba testified that, “the analyzed material is a fragment of the heart muscle found in the wall of the left ventricle close to the valves. This muscle is responsible for the contraction of the heart. It should be borne in mind that the left cardiac ventricle pumps blood to all parts of the body. The heart muscle is in an inflammatory condition and contains a large number of white blood cells. This indicates that the heart was alive at the time the sample was taken. It is my contention that the heart was alive, since white blood cells die outside a living organism. They require a living organism to sustain them. Thus, their presence indicates that the heart was alive when the sample was taken. What is more, these white blood cells had penetrated the tissue, which further indicates that the heart had been under severe stress, as if the owner had been beaten severely about the chest.”

Two Australians, journalist Mike Willesee and lawyer Ron Tesoriero, witnessed these tests. Knowing where sample had come from, they were dumbfounded by Dr. Zugiba’s testimony. Mike Willesee asked the scientist how long the white blood cells would have remained alive if they had come from a piece of human tissue, which had been kept in water. They would have ceased to exist in a matter of minutes, Dr. Zugiba replied. The journalist then told the doctor that the source of the sample had first been kept in ordinary water for a month and then for another three years in a container of distilled water; only then had the sample been taken for analysis. Dr. Zugiba’s was at a loss to account for this fact. There was no way of explaining it scientifically, he stated.

Also, Dr. Zugibe passionately asked, “You have to explain one thing to me, if this sample came from a person who was dead, then how could it be that as I was examining it the cells of the sample were moving and beating? If this heart comes from someone who died in 1996, how can it still be alive?

Then did Mike Willesee inform Dr. Zugiba that the analyzed sample came from a consecrated Host (white, unleavened bread) that had mysteriously turned into bloody human flesh. Amazed by this information, Dr. Zugiba replied, “How and why a consecrated Host would change its character and become living human flesh and blood will remain an inexplicable mystery to science—a mystery totally beyond his competence.”