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Full of Wonder

4/4/2014

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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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Known By Heart

2/10/2014

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An understanding has to be made in my own heart and in the hearts of all. What is the will of God and how can one follow it? Is it the Bible?

The will of God in its completeness will never be written on paper by any hand for eyes to read. For the will of God, just like God, is unlimited and thus infinite. The will of God can only truly be known by heart. Not by any form of memorization but by heart knowings given to man individually through his heart, to and through the heart of a man who has chosen to crucify his own will and live through the will of God. Man may thus desire God’s will, but man may never follow or truly know God’s will by any will of his own.

Change is needed, a magnificent change of heart, all the work of God. By the order of God, God’s Divine Love is poured into the supplicant heart. This Divine Love, the very essence of God, is the changing and transforming source of power. This special love of God is what makes one know, do and live God’s will.

God’s voice is heard, “the Comforter” has come and He is known as “The Father.” The most Loving Father lives in one’s heart to guide and direct step by step. This is the will of God as chosen by man. Man cannot have it two ways. He cannot adore the world and adore God. The bible has told us so. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all good things shall be added unto thee. Have no other idols before Me.

What is a sin?

A sin is not knowing God.

Is it a sin to dance?

No, not in itself. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God. When God is in your heart you will feel like dancing. Who cares to hear?

I do. I want to know the fullness of the Truth.

Do not preach to anyone. Allow these words and your life to speak for themselves. Preaching is saying, “You should do this or you should do that.” to another. You may tell them the story of your life and minister to them but do not preach. The will of God can only be given unto each ones heart. Forget what you know from the words of others and follow unto Me. I will bring you home.

You have nothing to prove unto Me. You do not need to prove your purity. You do not need to prove your worthiness for My Love takes care of all and purifies each soul. There is no work for you to do but to surrender your all. Surrender your belief in yourself, in the power of your own will. This is how you are to come to Me to live through Me and living through Me, My will will flow naturally.

To each his own, it is by birthright the right of each human to choose the way of his life. He may choose the ways of his father’s, his own or the ways of God. To follow the way of God in true form one is not to attempt to conform his will unto God’s will but to supplicate his own will and ask God to so fill him with His love and light that God’s will becomes his own.

So you say that is hard to listen to another tell of their faith and their life, which they believe is ordained by God, when you believe that way is not true. I say stop judging. This is what is hard for you, the feeling you are having that the way you believe is right for you, is right for all. Truly, you do not know. Stop believing so. Stop judging.

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

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The Truth of God

1/2/2014

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I write without the participation of my own thoughts, for if I did my mind would edit and question each word as it is given. Thus attempting to control and limit this wonderful, most pure, form of expression to humanity from our Creator, the Spirit Divine, direct from Divine Mind, the “Word of God.”

God is not about rules. God doesn’t desire a “pleasing behavior” from us. God is Love. God wants us to know and be filled with His love. With the infilling of His Divine Love, His ways will be realized, “His will” will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. This is the truth of God.

I know, I can know. I would like to find out. I am a channel for God’s love.

Listen to your heart speak. Open up your heart. Join forces with the All. You have access to a higher perspective. It is taken care of. All you asked is given. Give thanks for this knowing.

I pour out thanks from my heart, from the very depths of my spirit, my soul, as I know I am fully blessed. All God’s Bounty is mine. All my needs are met. I have such faith in God’s everlasting goodness proven unto me by my faith. I am to be a marker, a sign for others. Let my life be a signpost, a beacon of hope for all others. For all this I give thanks unto God.

I hear a voice. The voice of Love sings such a sweet song to my soul. A lullaby as comforting as a mother’s cooing unto her infant, the voice assures me all is well.

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

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There is a Way

1/2/2014

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"Aspen Drive" an oil painting by Debra Clemente
There is hope. It lies within your heart. There is a way. Where there is a will, there is a way. Your will is free, free to be whatever you want. Your hearts desire is spoken and heard. Your wish is fulfilled as the word is spoken, as you believe your truth to be. It is. So be it, now.

It is up to you, no one else, to live the life you have. As you wish, the power lies in thought and deed. For you are to be true to you, to your desires you must submit. All must align for you to see as you know in your heart. Be what you want. Think what you want. Attract the life you wish to live. Keep your eye on the goal. No other ideas should you behold.

Forces are here. Help is available, on call, just awaiting the signal from you, the go ahead, to allow you to realize your all. Keep the faith. Know the Truth. The power is within you to create, to be, to live, to shine, and to pour forth love to all so beautifully. Be open. Be available. Shut no door. Allow God’s Bountiful Goodness to all be yours. Don’t shut doors. Don’t shut windows or you may miss a window of opportunity.

Take care of your body. Feed it well. Take it for a walk, a swim. Let’s have fun and be fun. You have a body because you are physical. So be fully physical. Let not your body limit you. Let not your mind limit you. Let not your soul limit you, experience true freedom of body, mind and soul.


Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente
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Try as you may

11/14/2013

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Those whom believe in despair, despair they shall find, professed holy men or not. The glad heart honors God. The Earth’s bounty is for all to claim and enjoy the fruits of. The objective of life on Earth is to recognize and enjoy the fruits of My Kingdom while as well enjoying the fruits and pleasures of the physical world I have created for you. Hiding and holing away to bar yourself from temptation is not living as I intended. You are to love yourself and others. How can you love your brother if you cannot look him in the eye?

I have seen your pain. I have seen your struggle. Try as you may to obey even the most devout of you have not found a way to live in the world and yet not be of it. I have seen this. I know this. That is why I made the new plan, gave you a new promise. I promised to comfort you and bring you wisdom, give you My strength to hold fast to My ways, to take away your sin by taking away your temptation, all while fully living with your two feet planted in your world. You have not understood what has been said, you have misinterpreted My promise. Yes, Christ was to return but not again in the form he once did.

It is you My child whom are to become Christ as well. With My gift this is possible, for the way is the same. Jesus, as Christ showed you. He told you that you could be as he and far greater works you could do. What I gave to him I offer as well to you My love, My Divine Love implanted into your hearts. You do not need to change who you are to become worthy of My love. My child I love you so much, you are already worthy. All I ask is that you ask continually for My love, for My will to become yours. You have to want Me more than life itself; more than the life you know. You have to want to know Me. Show Me this earnestness in your heart and I will give you My love and change your heart.


Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente
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Do Not Be Afraid

6/26/2013

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A new age is dawning My dears. It is a glorious time of awakening. Hearts are hearing Me. Harkening to My Voice and proclaiming Truth in My Name. Do not be afraid to listen to your own heart. There is safety in the Silence. Learn to find comfort in the Stillness, for it is here I await you. Come spend time with Me and ask Me to let you know My Love within your heart. All whom desire and ask so for the infilling of My Love will know Me and through them, so very naturally, My Will shall be done.

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

6/11/2013

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Bring forth the ideal, supplication.

I need not worry what the next moment brings for I trust in God’s Ways. You see, I see through faith, faith in God’s Will, God’s “Good Will.” This is not the same as one whom one says “Oh, it must be God’s Will.” Like, “If punishment is due, I guess it is due.” No, Jesus taught us a different way to look at and be led through God’s Will. Through supplication of our own will, or need to control, and the asking that God’s Will, or Good Will to All, is done in His Name through us. God knows my desires and my uniqueness for My Maker Himself has bestowed the gifts I have, on me. Of course He wants to use these “God given” abilities to enlighten and bring joy to His creation. This is my only true desire, to be of service so I have laid my life down.

Some would say here that I have “taken up the cross.” But I do not, for that seems to me as an announcement that one is expecting their way to be hard and a burden. It’s just the opposite for me, as I am laying down the burdens of my mind, my fears and worries for the future, and knowing that God will provide my daily needs and lead me out of temptation. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on Earth (the physical) as it is in Heaven (the spiritual). This is truly my daily prayer, which I ask in the Name of Christ, who reigns in me.
 
I find myself speaking with such authority. The words take me back and I laugh, laughter of joy and amazement that such adamant wisdom flows so freely and forcefully from my mind and mouth. “It is true… It is this way… Yes, I know… This is because…”

Excerpted from the book
Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story
by Debra Clemente
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Listen in, hark, hear! This is the Message for all ears.

6/10/2013

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Come home, God says. Come home now. You do not need to take leave of where you are to be with Me. Now is the time you have. Be with Me. Where ever you are, I am present as Love. People think you have to die to go to Heaven but exactly the opposite is true. You have to “live” to go to Heaven, for Heaven is Life Eternal. You can enjoy life in Heaven while your feet touch the earth. Your “Highest Self” resides there now. How high you go is up to you by what you choose to do. Live low, know low, and stay low. Live high, know high and rise high. Love is what fills your soul like helium in a balloon. My Divine Love will take you to the highest of heavenly realms. Let Me blow kisses to your heart. Each kiss is filled with My Love.

You can’t help but rise higher when My Love you desire. No one can keep you down. No one can hold you to the ground. So filled with My Love you will be that you will see and understand eternity. This is My Gift, My most special and precious Gift which I offer to you. This is indeed the “Good News.” Trouble not. Have no fear. Divine Love is here!

Jesus said. Jesus told. He wanted each of you to know Me, as He (did), for I showed Him the way. He had so much of My Love He could not stay. But I sent back another Gift, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to give you a lift, to lift your burdens, to ease your load. It’s so beyond those rules you know. For I watched you stumble. I saw you cry. And decided that no longer could My Divine Love you deny.

This Gift allows you to flow through life with ease. Yes, like a gentle breeze, My way becomes yours. My Will be done, without any effort or because of anything you have done, but wanted Me so, thirsted for My Love. Oh, how I love to gift you My dears with “this Gift” from My Dove.

Listen in, hark, hear! This is the Message for all ears. I will make you anew. You will not feel the same. Some have felt so changed that they take a new name. This is It. The Real Deal. Offered first to Jesus, My Son, who was once as you, wandering, wondering, what to do. But He asked for My Help and offered Himself up to Me.

Yes, this was the real crucifixion actually.
The cross He died on was His own. He had carried just as you. Falling and tripping, getting up and trying anew. In order to fully know Me, He had to deny “himself.” He had to die ego-ly. Three times He denied his own will and served Himself up to Me. Right then and there He was so brand spanking new that He glowed from head to toe. Oh boy, Jesus sure did show My Love to all He met. Every time He asked in My Name, bounty He could proclaim. Jesus more than believed. What son “believes” in his father? A son can only “know” his father or not. Jesus was My “first” Son, spiritually begot.

“The Christ” that Jesus became, He as well proclaimed was here for you. He told you how and what to do. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus Christ gave no more rules for this was the Truth of His Message and was His Message complete.

If any man so loves Me, as he hungers and thirsts for this closeness, and as well loves and cares for his brother man, he will find himself rising day by day. His thoughts will be of joy and he will see perfectly. This is My Promise; the “Promised Land of Israel,” where greener pastures lie, the Heaven I promised and My Saving Grace.

The Savior was Jesus and can be you. This is what I want for each of you. If you indeed so love Me and spend time with Me in the quiet closet of your heart, you will find My Peace and Love pouring fourth so rapidly into your very being, shaking you to your very core. Oh yes, dear ones, it is you My children, whom I adore, with which I wish to fill with My Love, just as I promised “on the wings of a dove.”

Do not be mistaken. This is not a one-time thing. I have acres and acres of Love for you that I desire so to bring.
Bit by bit, puff by puff, I kiss your heart and fill you up. You will feel this, I know. And you will surprise yourself, when you begin to show. Show in your actions, thoughts and deeds. Show my Love to others fully, just like Jesus Christ did indeed.

You see, this is the difference, this is the Gift. My Love makes doing the right thing easy with no thought, or rules, or laws. You will not even pause to think if any action is the right thing to do. It always will be, as you will be becoming Me fully.

After you pass from this earth you will continue to rise with My Love. Higher and higher, purer and purer will be your soul until it becomes golden and burns like the fire of the sun. Yet until that, you will not be done. But you will be Mine and My Will, will be yours.

Can you see and understand the glory of this story? I know it is different than the one you knew. But isn’t it so much better too?


This is the Truth, which you can know. Ask your heart to show. Invite Me into your life. Yes, the one you are living which is filled with strife. I care not where you have been. I just ask for you to let Me in.

I’m at the door now, waiting for you to pick up the clues. Yes, you have to seek, but this isn’t a game. I just ask you to pray using Jesus Christ’s Name. For He knew and He knows now.  And He did all I asked him to show you how.

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

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Sometimes the walls have to crumble, so we can see.

4/15/2013

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May 2011 - Revelation: Acts of God.

In light of the recent most devastating tornado, which destroyed the Missouri town of Joplin, many may ask why God allows such disasters to occur and bring harm to His people. Others may see this occurrence as a specific “act of God” as if it was a punishment or warning. These people believe God is a judgmental being, whom doses out harsh penalties as needed to an evil world.

My understanding is different and certainly more comforting to me personally. I am now understanding God differently than the ideas engrained into me throughout my life. I have opened myself to a constant flow of God’s Goodness and Love. As this Love flows into my soul and warms the very core of my being so flows a new level of wisdom. This wisdom tells me that God or what I and others call God is only Good, all Good; all Love here and at hand. It is up to each of us to choose whether or not we allow God’s Love to flow to and through us. Our free will is what makes us feel separate as well as deeply connected. It’s what we do with this free will that matters. We can choose our own selfish ways or God’s Good ways of Love.

Our ego’s try and keep us tied to the physical world and tell us that we need to look out for number one and our ego’s number one is always self, our small self. So small that the only way it can begin to feel big is to collect stuff and then work hard to protect it’s stuff. Our larger and unlimited Self is God or maybe easier to understand as our God Connection, our Universal Connection to the One All Good.

No one can really have both. The Bible tells us we can only worship one, one God, one good. When we choose our small self and say me, me, me, more, more, more and live in fear and worry, we are not putting our attention toward the good of God. Okay, so I believe in the Ultimate Creative Force, the Eternal Spirit which created each of us and as well created the universe and thus this universe runs perfectly according to the laws of nature established in the beginning. These laws are unchangeable but we and our world, our bodies and our earth are. Magnificently powerful forces of nature have been changing the face of our planet continually since the beginning.

So the great storm was a natural occurrence. It just was. Man cannot change the weather. Man can be aware and take measures to protect himself from rain, wind, snow and sun but that is all. It is life. Life is change. Change is what happens. This tornado was a great change. A most powerful and upsetting change. It changed lives forever. It changed the face of the earth. It took away what one survivor described as “everything she knew as real.” It took away and tossed around the material. What was left was spirit. When people crawled out from the rubble and they saw the shamble made of their physical reality, their spirits awoke and gave thanks for their lives. Their good came out and more good came forth. Good is God.

So yes, I do believe an “Act of God” has changed Joplin. But I’m not referring to the great storm. I am instead referring to the so very many acts of God, acts of selfless good being performed as I write. This is why we are here, to help each other, to lend a hand and an ear, to be good to each other and to be God for each other and to see God in each other.

Many ask why does it take a tragedy to bring out people’s good? My reply: the lives we build, the walls we build of separation sometimes have to crumble before us so we can see the light, the light in each other’s eyes and in our own.

God bless, good blesses. You gotta feel good about it, whatever it is. The only way to bring good your way is to attract it with good. So you have to feel good, to feel good. You have to think good. Thinking good is a choice. A choice each always has. We each have free will to choose our thoughts and as our thoughts create our life we each have free will to choose and create the life we want.

Feel the Love, the Love I have for you. It is yours already. Don’t block the flow. Go with the flow. Pass it on. No one can hoard Love. Take time out to spend time in. Within yourself lies the wisdom for your life as you need it, it is there. Quiet yourself.



Excerpted from the book
Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story
by Debra Clemente
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Fire in the Sky, oil painting by Debra Clemente
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You never surrendered

12/7/2012

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