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The Time is Now

4/2/2014

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Video presentation of excerpt a from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story illuminated with paintings by the author Debra Clemente.

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Please put this person, these people in my path.

3/29/2014

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I just remembered how mad I am. It’s okay, Jesus said I would be (Gospel of Thomas) and I am. I am not going to deny this feeling right now, though I know I will move on past it to perfection. I’m mad because I have lived in a world built of untruths, packaged as the way to Peace and Perfection. I have been sold a bill of goods. I am mad because I see it now. I see the unreality being perpetuated before me in all in the Name of God my Father. I see the limitations imposed and taught. I understand how tradition has killed the spirit of the seeker.

Man has been told, by man, that all to be known is known. “The rules have been written and here they are. Don’t question, doubt or look any further.”


Jesus said, “Seek ye first, the Kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto thee.” Seek ye, you seek. When one is seeking, searching, they are digging, looking high and low for something they want, that is lost, not found to them.

Like the child’s game of “warmer-cooler” Jesus gave clues. “The Kingdom of God is at hand. It is not in the sky or over there.” He did not tell anyone to open a book. He had studied them, the Torah (the books of the old Testament), as well, but did not ever say one’s salvation or entrance into the Kingdom of God depended upon the quoting of any verse or knowing the linage of any of his ancestors.

He had good news, different news, He indicated that this knowledge of God was hidden from the intellects. So it wasn’t a thinking thing, and can’t be experienced by reading any instructions given by any other.  It has to be sought beyond the mind. That’s where I have found God, beyond my mind, beyond my brain, out of my thinking.

Jesus told us to go away to a quiet place to spend time with God, a deserted place, a closet, seclusion, so one’s mind can detach from distractions, from the physical sensations of life and rest, so one can quiet one’s being as to hear the small still voice that continually speaks within. That is our God connection. That is the open door where God waits, ready in our hearts for acknowledgement. Let your mind take rest and just be. Be peaceful, restful, rest in the peace of God.

You may not hear God’s voice at first as the static of your mind may be so loud. It takes time to tune into the “God Channel,” but practice makes perfect. The more time one spends seeking God’s voice and wisdom, the more peaceful one will become without ever consciously being aware of direct thoughts or words. But as one makes this seeking a daily practice more good will come. It will become easier and more comfortable. Then, bit by bit, this peace will flow out into the rest of one’s life and as it does the seeker will begin to crave and thirst for more peace from their inner sanctum.

Part of this process is dropping the ego self, the mindful part of each of us who is constantly thinking, “Me, me, what about me?” And instead go into the silence with no agenda but comfort and peace, seeking to feel and know the presence of God. Changes, quiet changes are being made to one’s very being just by being a seeker. Subtle changes, awareness, knowings, thoughts, feelings and words become evident to one’s psyche while in and out of the quiet zone.
 
Gratitude and love are felt and naturally expressed. The load lightens. As one is inspired to act and as one does and is grateful for more, more wisdom teachings are handed to the seeker, student of life and love. It is not a way of learning. It is a way of knowing, knowing God’s love and knowing all God’s truth and wisdom.

There is a burn in the heart, yes, a most wonderful heartburn, a fire, an energy felt in the heart zone center of one’s physical self. It is the “Fire of Refinement”, as the alchemy of God purifies one’s soul changing a common metal, our humanness, into a Pure Golden Heart.

So why am I not going to church, to Mass? Because that information is not serving me anymore, it is actually hindering my path to enlightenment, to my full presence of the Kingdom of God. It is not that I don’t believe in God, and it is not that I don’t acknowledge the saving power of Christ’s message. It is that I through my own journey as a “seeker,” I have found a much more profound realization of God and a truer understanding of Jesus the Christ’s message.

I have physically been in some of the “holiest” places on earth, as declared by “the Church” and been moved only visually by the manmade beauty. Not at all moved spiritually, yet, stepping into the sunshine and breathing the fresh air I am filled with a Wondrous Loving Spirit that can be God and no less. I find God within as I settle my mind and body. At rest, at peace, He comes forward to me and fills me with His love and wisdom. I have found this “love of my life”, whom I have been seeking. All I desire is more closeness, more Divine Love filling my soul.

I do believe that others within the boundaries of the formal church have as well experienced this completeness, this wholeness, this holiness of which I speak and seek. But they have been far and few in between. And instead of holding them and their lives up as lanterns for the people, lighting the way, the people whom people have put in charge say: “No, you are not worthy. This sainthood is not for everyone. Who are you to ever begin to think that you could ever be so holy? Remember, you are but a sinner. You are lowly.” Many may argue that this is the message indeed, but I can only say that it was the message I received.

People are massed, herded and paraded through rituals that are to give comfort but to many they are but mere tradition. Jesus of Nazareth, as Christ, denied the “faith of his fathers” and walked his own path. He said each had to do this as well. Be a seeker, not a preacher or a follower.

Want to know; want to know God’s love. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.

So I say, I am finding my own way, searching for clues, breadcrumbs dropped by others while they made their own journeys. Some will say, “This is not right. You are wrong!” I say, it is right for me I know. It may not be the path for you. There are many roads to the top of the mountain. Some are filled with weeds and boulders as they have hardly been traversed. Go your own way, but go in peace. May peace be with you, the peace that was meant to be.

And all that being said, I would love to find a spiritual community that supports my personal seeking and knowing experience. I so yearn to be able to communicate and share these profound, deep and true experiences I am having as I live this life. I want to touch another and be touched by another with skin on, who knows and is living a similar journey. Please put this person, these people in my path. Bring them to me. I want to live full. I want to share my joy.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente


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Their Choice

2/5/2014

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You have no reason to prove God to anyone else. You have no need to prove these writings to anyone. All is to be taken by any other for their own consideration of value and merit for their own life. Each has their own work to do. Whether they choose to investigate on their own can only be their choice. It is only their business, not yours. So leave those thoughts alone.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente

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I do not speak in code

1/13/2014

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Thank you Lord for these words, this wisdom, this truth. I ask You to wholly consume my being and show up fully through me to the world. I step aside and let Light in.

I do not speak in code. I do not try to confuse. I show up and speak plainly to you in words your heart can hear. I do this for all. My voice is ever present, but some shut the door and bar closed their heart. Others fill their day so with doing that they allow no time for being, being with Me. For when one can quiet the noise of his mind he will find peace, peace inside his heart. The peace I bring to the world. Your heart is your sanctuary where you can stow away and swim in My grace. It is all here, so very near. So many have lived in the knowing of My love, their lives have told the stories of truth and grace that is available to all the human race.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente
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I Am

12/7/2013

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Please speak to me. Tell me who You are? Are You me? Am I You? Are you God or Jesus or my Higher Self? Are we all the same? Do I need to or should I call this Love, this knowing, by a name?

I shall remain nameless, yet you know who I am. I am All. All Love for you, for eternity. What are words really? They are limiting ideas. I am not limited nor are you, know this.

Come let Me comfort you. Come to Me with your everything, your pain and your pleasure. I want to share your life and be your life. I am Life Eternal. Come to Me as you are. I am here listening to and loving you. You are not broken. You have just been broken open.

You had to be broken open to be available to Me. You were so closed, so rigid, so tight, so selfish. Yes, you were very selfish. You thought you could do it all, all along, all alone. You were selfish because you didn’t share your life with Me. You couldn’t see My Love for you. You heard the Words but did not get the message. You had to be broken open so you could open up to Me. It had to be this way.

We have always been together as One. When you smiled, you felt Me. When you held and nursed your children, you felt My love. When you painted, I inspired you, I took away your pain. But you could not see how to live eternally with and through Me. The sense of separation you felt made you sad and caused your pain. It was a downward cycle that had to be broken, for I love you so much and want so much better for you.

I have given you insights into the lighter side of life for sometime. You could paint it, because of Me. Yes, you knew there was more to these stories you painted. You beheld the glory they told. You will paint again with Me. Now, the more clearly you see, the even more marvelous “Our works” will be.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente





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Who says?

11/12/2013

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Personality is a human physical trait. As “One” we are not limited by nor identify with personality. Personality is part of man’s “ego consciousness” which keeps him small. It’s not about personality anymore. Your mind is attempting to define this voice as one or another personality or individuality, as you understand how souls appear to you in your earth form. It is not this way, not for us, not for you, not now, before or ever. It is only your limited consciousness that perceives it so. Please don’t bother too much with your attempts to comprehend or fathom the greatness of this concept. All you need to know is that “all is One and all is Love.”

You know both in your heart and mind that these messages are messages of pure love. The same love which Paul spoke about. This voice never judges or condemns but is patient, comforting and encouraging. Love knows all. Love conquers all. God is Love. This is what you are to know.

You have to discover your own power. You have to lay claim to the Kingdom within. It is all within the power of your word, in thought, spoken and in deed.

Buddhism is about mastering the mind. While there is much to be said for that as an effort to becoming the perfection of man, we are offering you more, a way to get beyond the mind which knows all it knows so well. We ask you to forget all you know and be born again unto Truth. If you can learn to work, live and breath just through, only through, the mind of God, that’s when you’ve “got it going on!”

Whenever you go past the point you thought you couldn’t go, that is when you have reached the next level. You have to venture beyond your comfort zone for growth to appear. You have to push yourself to this new limit. It’s a personal challenge, whether mentally, physically or spiritually. You do yourself no good by measuring your rate of growth against any other.

All have access to the same gifts. All good arises from the same Source. All power is One and One for all. The only difference lies in individual man’s level of consciousness and awareness of such power and aptitude gained by the exercise of such. Jesus, as Christ, told us “What ever I do, so may you.”

Some say they talk to dead people but that is an improbability. It is impossible, for if anything is truly dead there is no life with which to communicate. Communication is a back and forth thing. It should be better stated that some are aware of communication with Spirit and the souls of the bodily departed. That is not the same as “dead people.”

A soul inhabits a body for a time for an earthly experience as an opportunity for soul growth, or advancement in the Heavenly Planes, by seeking soul purification and enlightenment. When the body is spent or damaged so that it can no longer support the life force, the soul energy escapes the imprisonment of the physical confines it has known. There is no skip, pause or lapse from one moment of knowing in the body to the next moment that the soul realizes its freedom. There is no change whatsoever in the attributes of a soul just because it is no longer present in a physical form.

You were a soul before this body and you will continue as that same soul after you depart. The only thing you depart from is your physical form. You remain present, actually more present than when in the physical form. As you have not the physical senses, nor local brain activity, to distract you, you are Pure Being. You exist in the Ethers, as Heaven was first described.

You reside in a state of continual joy, but happy as you are to just to be you are aware that other souls enjoy more joy and reside in a brighter light space. You long for this “more joy” and learn that the way to this more joy is through the infilling of your soul with God’s Divine Love. All souls can receive this gift as they ask for it with all the energy their soul possesses, but the most soul growth opportunity is when a soul is with a physical body and is having a human experience.

What are you looking for? What’s wrong or what is right? There are basically two ways to go through life; you can either look for what’s wrong or what’s right. Seek and ye shall find. Be careful what you look for, for what you think about you bring about.

People always ask, “Who says?” They are looking for an “authority figure.” Someone else they believe holds all the answers. They search on for a supreme authority, one whose truth never varies.


Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente

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Have presence of Mind

11/12/2013

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“Daily Word,” I get a direct deposit of the daily word of God. I stilled the mindless chatter of my mind and the Small Still voice speaks unto me continually. As the static of the world has been eliminated from my mind the volume of the voice has risen and my reception of the message is so much clearer. It had to circumvent my mind! This is clear as a bell.

Why would you want to constantly reread the doom and gloom papers? The only way you can help the world is to hold your energy high with good thoughts. Think on Me. Think of My love. Become My love for the world.

Everyone works with a higher power whether they recognize it or not. Names are not important. Labels do no good. They get in the way and clutter the channel. Stories are written, further confusing the clear reception of this life channel. Do you think God only speaks to people when bushes burn? You think too much! You have to believe in more than you know, to know more than you think.


I believe in the magic of possibility. When it is given to me, I do it. When I have an idea, I act on it.

Pay attention. Have presence of Mind. Uniting of desires, you have to allow Spirit to work through you. Your thinking mind has taken over. If you only believe and trust in what is in front of you, you will only know and believe in what is in front of you. Your experience will not change, just more of the same. This is called limiting belief.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente





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We Like to Bypass Your Head

7/24/2013

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Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it is not there. If you want it, believe it so and keep looking, searching and believing. If it is not what you want, then forget about it. We are so proud of you darling, for not bowing down and lowering your own personal standards to fit the world’s view of what is right to do. Who else can truly know you but you? The true You knows the truth of you and it is beautiful, all so beautiful. Listen here My dear. All is well with you.

Who in the world do you think you are and who in the world do you think you aren’t? For you are everything you believe. Believe in Me and with Me that you are wondrous, wonderful, amazing and unlimited. Judge not yourself. Compare not yourself against anyone, nor anyone’s standards, even those you believe are mine for I judge you not. I judge no one. Love does not judge. Love only loves and this is what you are to do for you, love yourself unconditionally.

When you can love yourself unconditionally you can as well love others unconditionally. You can do unto others as you do unto yourself. Love yourself first. Take care of yourself. Treat yourself well. You are in charge of yourself, no one else is. Remember this, you choose who you are by the thoughts you choose to think, what you choose to believe. Do not think less of yourself for you are no less than My Love manifested unto the world.

Sometimes you have to hear things more than once to get it through your thick head and into your heart, which is why we like to bypass your head and speak directly to your heart. Your heart hears and remembers instantly.

You said you want to make people happy. That’s a wonderful idea but you can’t you know. You are powerless in this instance. You have not the power to make anyone else be happy or sad. You may bring joy to another by offering to share the joy you have but you cannot force your joy upon another.


Sometimes my body becomes too much for me as well as my mind and I just have to lay myself down and be one with the Divine.

“We already have our church.” people say, in an attempt to shut the mouth of another as tightly as their own mind is clamped.


For this very reason We ask you not to impose any of these teachings upon one soul. These Words are not for everyone, only those whom seek a better life than they know.

I’m not going to play that game.


What game?

The game where one worries.


Every once in a while I remember why I believed what I believed. Why I didn’t feel good about all I was, or all I did. It was because I believed the words, the opinions, of others. I took them to heart distrusting my own True Self, the Heart of God within me. Luckily for me I see this clearer and clearer everyday, as my mind attunes to my heart which is being overhauled by the Love of God.

I don’t know about “star systems” and such as that and I don’t care to.

If you wanted to know you could know.

No thank you, I’m fine for now.

No one ever told me that what I now do, “talk to God,” was ever a possibility for me or any other. Oh sure, I was told I could and should talk to God in prayer. But the idea that God could talk to me, I mean really talk to me, was never within my comprehension. Perhaps, the very reason I didn’t hear clear His Call, was that I didn’t know that God had a Voice which could be recognized by my heart.


Others should know. Let others know that if they want to hear My Voice they can as well.  For I Speak to all continually. Not many listen. Few recognize the Words as Mine, as My Heart beating for them.

One is not “holier” than another because God Loves one more than another. God Loves all the same. It is just that some have accepted and welcomed more of God’s Love in to their heart raising their own heart, soul, in holiness.

Re-creation of the soul: Physical recreation is necessary for re-creation of the soul, as your mind disengages from its constant workings therefore resetting its healthy set point. Make time daily for the re-creation and realization of the soul part of you of which is of sole importance to your being. Find yourself again and live anew each day in some way.

Sometimes I read these words which I have written and say, “How can I say this, like how dare? Who do you think you are?” But then I remember it is not about who I am and that these words are not mine. They are gifts from the Divine.



Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente
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Tell Them the Truth

7/19/2013

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God Loves me but God says I am not so special. What I can do so can another, as he or she allows His Divine Love to flow forth. Just the same, I as well can accomplish all any other has done if I set my sights on it.

All can be done through Me. All good is of God. You know how easily these words flow out? Your whole life can flow this way.

What do I say when someone asks what my book is about?

Say “It’s about God’s Gift of Divine Love to me and the Wisdom that has opened up to me since I have received Divine Love.” Tell them the truth.

So when they ask what I am, what do I say? Do I say I am a Christian? Do I say I am a Catholic? None of those words seem to do justice to what I know in my heart I am.

Tell them the truth. Tell them you are a child of God. Tell them you know the Father. Tell them you are filled with My Love. They will know who you are, by My Love.

Someone else speaks of talking to Jesus. They say they hear His Voice.

This is all the same My dear. There is only One who is All. All I am, is all you Are. The same Voice of Love is spoken to all. Not all hear, and not all that hear, hear so clear. But you do, so you must show the way to this knowing. Know this, I Love you. I Love all. I speak to all, all the time. I am the Voice of Love. I speak unto your heart which is My home. Empower yourself with the right people around you. You are already surrounded by angels.

I have been healed. I am whole again.

Some people have been busy building empires in the past few years and others have just kept themselves busy running around. But look what you have done My dear. You have found My Voice, as this has been your clear choice. Can you ever begin to imagine what lies beyond? I can and it is lovely. You have put your trust in Me and I have put My Wisdom within you. There is nothing together We cannot do.


Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente
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You Were Selfish

6/27/2013

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Please speak to me. Tell me who You are? Are You me? Am I You? Are you God or Jesus or my Higher Self? Are we all the same? Do I need to or should I call this Love, this knowing, by a name?

I shall remain nameless, yet you know who I am. I am All. All Love for you, for eternity. What are words really? They are limiting ideas. I am not limited nor are you, know this.

Come let Me comfort you. Come to Me with your everything, your pain and your pleasure. I want to share your life and be your life. I am Life Eternal. Come to Me as you are. I am here listening to and loving you. You are not broken. You have just been broken open.

You had to be broken open to be available to Me. You were so closed, so rigid, so tight, so selfish. Yes, you were very selfish. You thought you could do it all, all along, all alone. You were selfish because you didn’t share your life with Me. You couldn’t see My Love for you. You heard the Words but did not get the Message. You had to be broken open so you could open up to Me. It had to be this way.


We have always been together as One. When you smiled, you felt Me. When you held and nursed your children, you felt My Love. When you painted, I inspired you, I took away your pain. But you could not see how to live eternally with and through Me. The sense of separation you felt made you sad and caused your pain. It was a downward cycle that had to be broken, for I love you so much and want so much better for you.

I have given you insights into the lighter side of life for sometime. You could paint it, because of Me. Yes, you knew there was more to these stories you painted. You beheld the Glory they told. You will paint again with Me. Now, the more clearly you see, the even more marvelous “Our works” will be.


Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente


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