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You Have Found My Voice

4/13/2014

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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.   ~ Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story


I cannot but observe that so many of you spend so much time and thought on mere trifles of living, while you almost wholly overlook the more essential realities of everlasting import, those very accomplishments which are concerned with the development of a more harmonious working agreement between you and your Adjusters. The great goal of human existence is to attune to the divinity of the indwelling Adjuster; the great achievement of mortal life is the attainment of a true and understanding consecration to the eternal aims of the divine spirit who waits and works within your mind. But a devoted and determined effort to realize eternal destiny is wholly compatible with a lighthearted and joyous life and with a successful and honorable career on earth. Co-operation with the Thought Adjuster does not entail self-torture, mock piety, or hypocritical and ostentatious self-abasement; the ideal life is one of loving service rather than an existence of fearful apprehension. ~ The Urantia Book

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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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Worth Repeating

12/3/2013

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The following are excerpts from the recently published EVANGELII GAUDIUM an APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS that I believe are worth repeating.
 
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"Worth Repeating" 48" x 36" oil painting by Debra Clemente
The joy of The gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept this offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.
I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them; I ask all of you to do this unfailingly each day. No one should think that this invitation is not meant for him or her, since “no one is excluded from the joy brought by the Lord”. The Lord does not disappoint those who take this risk; whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms. Now is the time to say to Jesus: “Lord, I have let myself be deceived; in a thousand ways I have shunned your love, yet here I am once more, to renew my covenant with you. I need you. Save me once again, Lord, take me once more into your redeeming embrace”. How good it feels to come back to him whenever we are lost! Let me say this once more: God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
Jesus himself “rejoiced in the Holy Spirit” (Lk 10:21). His message brings us joy: “I have said these things to you, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete” (Jn 15:11). Our Christian joy drinks of the wellspring of his brimming heart. He promises his disciples: “You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy” (Jn 16:20). He then goes on to say: “But I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you” (Jn 16:22).
I never tire of repeating those words of Benedict XVI which take us to the very heart of the Gospel: “Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction”.
Thanks solely to this encounter – or renewed encounter – with God’s love, which blossoms into an enriching friendship, we are liberated from our narrowness and self-absorption. We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves in order to attain the fullest truth of our being. Here we find the source and inspiration of all our efforts at evangelization. For if we have received the love which restores meaning to our lives, how can we fail to share that love with others?
A renewal of preaching can offer believers, as well as the lukewarm and the non-practicing, new joy in the faith and fruitfulness in the work of evangelization. The heart of its message will always be the same: the God who revealed his immense love in the crucified and risen Christ. God constantly renews his faithful ones, whatever their age: “They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not be faint” (Is 40:31). Christ is the “eternal Gospel” (Rev 14:6); he “is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Heb 13:8), yet his riches and beauty are inexhaustible. He is for ever young and a constant source of newness. The Church never fails to be amazed at “the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God” (Rom 11:33). Saint John of the Cross says that “the thicket of God’s wisdom and knowledge is so deep and so broad that the soul, however much it has come to know of it, can always penetrate deeper within it”. Or as Saint Irenaeus writes: “By his coming, Christ brought with him all newness”. With this newness he is always able to renew our lives and our communities,and even if the Christian message has known periods of darkness and ecclesial weakness, it will never grow old. Jesus can also break through the dull categories with which we would enclose him and he constantly amazes us by his divine creativity. Whenever we make the effort to return to the source and to recover the original freshness of the Gospel, new avenues arise, new paths of creativity open up, with different forms of expression, more eloquent signs and words with new meaning for today’s world. Every form of authentic evangelization is always “new”.
All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.
Moreover, pastors and the lay faithful who accompany their brothers and sisters in faith or on a journey of openness to God must always remember what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches quite clearly: “Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors”. Consequently, without detracting from the evangelical ideal, they need to accompany with mercy and patience the eventual stages of personal growth as these progressively occur.  I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.
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If ye love me, keep my commandments.

11/19/2013

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John 14:12-17 King James Version (KJV)

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Jesus said: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” I know what this means. Now, I hear it clear. What God is saying through Jesus, the man, the Christ.

* * *

Love Me first. Love Me with all of your being. Love Me with all of your heart and mind and then thus my commandments will be kept by you. For this Love I am shall fill you and give you the power, the sight, to do my will freely.

I did not mean that one is to fulfill My commandments by his own power and thus as he does he shows his love to Me. That was the story of old. But this story Jesus tell is new, it is the Good News. And the Good News is if you love me completely, I will fill you with my Love completely. I will give you My power, the power of my Holy Spirit to do as me easily.

Do not wait until you are perfect to come to Me. For I say again, none can be perfect except as they live through Me. This has been and continues to be the confusion of the masses. My Love is above all written law, for My Love is My Law which I offer unto each heart as the transforming agent. When you call upon the power of My Love you are not alone for all the power and grace of Heaven moves through you, as you fluidly, naturally. For I am your God and Live in the Heart wishing so to express the power of My great Love through thee.

Express your love. Express your loyalty to Me and you shall know this Love I am, this Love Divine living as you, through you. Thus you shall keep all of My commandments for Love is the Law of all. I am God. I am Love. I am this Love for you to be. I am this Love for all to see.

Limit yourself not. It is not God that forgot. You My children have forgotten Me. You call you not My name in love. You seek not the Presence of Me within thee. I call your name continually. Speak to Me. Ask to know the Love I am intimately.


* * *

The “Spirit of Obedience” is not something we do of our own will. The “Spirit of Obedience” is that “Grace” God gives us to do His will naturally. It is a gift of, a sign of, the New Birth within. Again, we can not do the will of God on our own. The Spirit of God, the Spirit of Love must so fill us and thus shall “will” us to do and God wishes us to do. I have felt this. I do feel this. I do know this, which is the difference, the difference the indwelling of God’s Spirit of Love makes within one’s human heart. I have know this and shown this all before I have found and understood biblical reference to it. I know the difference for I lived fifty years the other way, trying to be good, trying to do God’s will, trying to be perfect, to be in my own eyes worthy of God’s Love.

But one day I changed. I changed the way I prayed. I began to pray a new way. I asked for God’s Love to fill me and flow through me. I asked God’s Love to be me. He answered my prayer and continues to do as I continually ask Him to fill me with His Divine Love. No where else could such a great treasure I find than this Love I have found that within me dwells.

* * *

Love Me in the spirit of obedience, in the spirit of truth, with the wholeness of your heart to know the wholeness of My Love. My Holiness as you expressing, naturally, fluidly, abundantly without your mind action, without thought. Call upon the Spirit of Truth to lead you in all your thought and action.

Let My will be known unto your heart and mind. Through this Love Divine I offer you each, I come to teach, not to preach. I come to show, so each will know My way as their own. Know Me intimately. Know Me immediately. Know me presently, for I am with the continually. The Spirit of Truth will come, leading you in all right ways.


August 29, 2013  ~  Debra Clemente



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When Realization Awakens

7/23/2013

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Tears of JOY and THANKSGIVING come over me as I began to read. "Did I write this?" I wonder, for the WORDS and MESSAGE are the same as I continually receive. From One AUTHOR, ONE SOURCE OF ALL this WISDOM comes. Oh, what a JOY IT IS, THIS TRUTH TO LIVE AND KNOW. ~ Deb

"In the Silence of my soul, I listened to the Lord"

The Divine Word by Brother Mandus
(1907 - 1988) Founder of the World Healing Crusade


"I AM your Heavenly Father, and I come to you now as the living Presence
within your own being. There comes a time in the life of all My Children when
realization awakens. There comes a time when those who have already
experienced My Love are ready to be lifted into an even higher state of
consciousness. Because I am your Father I am forever creating ways for you
to expand your consciousness in harmony with My Own Perfection.

Turn away from the World for awhile and listen to Me! Forget yourself and
realize that I am God, the Christ Spirit within you now. You and I are one. We
never can be separated because you are of My Own Being. My Life is your
life. My Mind is your mind. My Love is your love. You are exactly as I am in
miniature, with the same eternal life and an infinite potential for increasingly
wonderful expression. You are because I am.

I have been with you from the beginning and I never cease to bathe you in My
Love. I lead you, protect and cherish you as My Own. In all My Realms of
material Worlds and spiritual heavens I have only one you. I created you that
you may grow in love, wisdom, knowledge and joy. I see for you adventures
beyond your greatest dreams. I long for you to take all the gifts which I have
prepared for you. As quickly as you learn to know Me you will realise that I
can only give you everything you desire. All I have, all I am, is your own for
you to accept.

I AM the Perfect Life within you. I am health and happiness, peace and
prosperity, love and laughter, wisdom and all knowledge. I am the abundant
life. All these things you already possess in My Spirit. My Universe has been
evolved through My Own Being. I hold it poised in My Mind. I live in the midst
of it. I am the Life that springs forth in trees and flowers and in every growing
plant and fruit. I am the Life and Beauty of the World and of Man.

Wherever your vision rests, there am I. You cannot mistake My Presence, for
I reveal Myself in countless ways. So many of My Children have become blind
to the Reality, to the evidence of My Presence. They accept themselves, and
all your wonderful World, without thought and deny My Almighty Love and
Intelligence which makes it all possible. They neither believe the evidence of
their own senses, nor the truth so obvious in their own beings.

But you I lift into My Consciousness now. I redeem you from blindness and
give you clear vision. I call you out of the World into your Kingdom within
where I can commune with you, and give you guidance, wisdom,
understanding and truth. I expand your soul in My Love and send you forth to
cultivate a greater love, a greater power, and to create with Me a more
wonderful way than you have ever known.

Every day you have your problems. But when you know I am with you there is
nothing to fear. If you will continue to be poised in My Spirit, I am
instantaneous Perfection in the midst of all seeming chaos, illness or
tribulation. You will overcome the World in My Strength.

You can live but one moment at a time. This moment is the only one that is of
any consequence to you. Therefore I charge you to fill it with simple trust in
Me, and with perfect love. That is the answer to every subsequent moment as
it dawns.

There is no difficulty, no illness, no seeming tragedy that is too great for My
Love to overcome. But when you insist on turning away from Me to dwell in
fear or worry on the difficulty, I must stand aside until you come back to Me. I
can only manifest My Perfection in you when you allow Me to do so. That is
your right of choice, the perfect freedom I give to you to think and live as you
wish.

My Law is Perfect. I know you will eventually live in complete harmony with
Me and thus enter perfect happiness and achievement. You are, as yet, but
learning how to live as a free being. The time has come when you shall really
begin to claim your spiritual freedom through a clearer, simpler understanding
of My Presence.

I want you to know that My Great Law is Love. It is the Great Law because I
am Love, and all things that are perfectly created are done through the Power
of thought expressed in Love.

Therefore to the extent you live in love, forgetting and sacrificing self in
service, you become one with Me. It is fundamental to your health and
happiness that you shall Love with all your heart and mind. You shall love
your family, friends and neighbours. More important you shall love those who
hurt you, your so-called enemies, be they individuals or nations. I love all, for I
am all.

When you are in the throes of conflict and your mind turns to anger,
resentment and bitterness, remember that you are hating Me. The bitterness
of your distorted thoughts, often translated into harmful physical action, not
only destroys the well-being of others, but produces spiritual, mental and
physical illness in you. I never will illness upon My Children.

You shall learn to love all, and through your understanding, to forgive all.
When you become aware of evil coming to you, the only answer is to see Me,
the Perfect Christ within the other. That is the Man you shall love. Then you
can forgive the outer man, and be compassionate, for if he despitefully uses
you, he does so out of ignorance of My Law. Love him, pray for him, forgive
him, then you lift him up to Me and I lift you up also.

From this moment let love be your constant companion, then I shall be with
you, too. Love your people, love your work. Do all things as a loving service
for Me. Every moment will then be filled with joy, and power and success, for I
shall sustain you in everything you do.

The other Law you need to know is the Law of Mind which insists, necessarily
that an experience can only become real to you when you recognise it. What
ever you accept in consciousness becomes real. You exercise your faith
every time you do this. You have faith in the ground you walk upon, faith in
the life within you, faith in the Sun and the rain, faith in the chairs and bed you
use, faith in your ability to come here or go there. All such experiences you
daily accept as Reality and thus they become concrete experience.

It is this Law which naturally must operate when you think of Me. I too can
only become a Reality when you consciously accept Me as Real. When you
know I am the Almighty Love, Wisdom, intelligence and all good within you,
you are free forever.

From this moment I charge YOU to fill your life with love and to trust Me in all
things. Ask and I am instantly the Perfect Answer. Give me your burdens, and
I will disperse them. Forget the ills you hold so closely by remembering Me.
Forgive yourself in loving Me, and serving all. I am your Lord, and when you
keep your mind filled with the knowledge that health, joy, Prosperity and
everything that is Perfect are now pouring into your life they become your
own."

GOD BLESS YOU!

http://brothermandus.wwwhubs.com/mandus3.htm
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Another Listened

6/5/2013

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I just came upon this inspired writing and believe it speaks the Truth so clearly. The Words and Message is oh so familiar to me, for this is the same Voice of Love that to my own heart continually speaks. ~ Deb

Brother Mandus
(1907 - 1988) Founder of the World Healing Crusade


"In the Silence of my soul, I listened to the Lord"
The Divine Word by Brother Mandus -

"I AM your Heavenly Father, and I come to you now as the living Presence
within your own being. There comes a time in the life of all My Children when
realisation awakens. There comes a time when those who have already
experienced My Love are ready to be lifted into an even higher state of
consciousness. Because I am your Father I am forever creating ways for you
to expand your consciousness in harmony with My Own Perfection.

Turn away from the World for awhile and listen to Me! Forget yourself and
realise that I am God, the Christ Spirit within you now. You and I are one. We
never can be separated because you are of My Own Being. My Life is your
life. My Mind is your mind. My Love is your love. You are exactly as I am in
miniature, with the same eternal life and an infinite potential for increasingly
wonderful expression. You are because I am.

I have been with you from the beginning and I never cease to bathe you in My
Love. I lead you, protect and cherish you as My Own. In all My Realms of
material Worlds and spiritual heavens I have only one you. I created you that
you may grow in love, wisdom, knowledge and joy. I see for you adventures
beyond your greatest dreams. I long for you to take all the gifts which I have
prepared for you. As quickly as you learn to know Me you will realise that I
can only give you everything you desire. All I have, all I am, is your own for
you to accept.

I AM the Perfect Life within you. I am health and happiness, peace and
prosperity, love and laughter, wisdom and all knowledge. I am the abundant
life. All these things you already possess in My Spirit. My Universe has been
evolved through My Own Being. I hold it poised in My Mind. I live in the midst
of it. I am the Life that springs forth in trees and flowers and in every growing
plant and fruit. I am the Life and Beauty of the World and of Man.

Wherever your vision rests, there am I. You cannot mistake My Presence, for
I reveal Myself in countless ways. So many of My Children have become blind
to the Reality, to the evidence of My Presence. They accept themselves, and
all your wonderful World, without thought and deny My Almighty Love and
Intelligence which makes it all possible. They neither believe the evidence of
their own senses, nor the truth so obvious in their own beings.

But you I lift into My Consciousness now. I redeem you from blindness and
give you clear vision. I call you out of the World into your Kingdom within
where I can commune with you, and give you guidance, wisdom,
understanding and truth. I expand your soul in My Love and send you forth to
cultivate a greater love, a greater power, and to create with Me a more
wonderful way than you have ever known.

Every day you have your problems. But when you know I am with you there is
nothing to fear. If you will continue to be poised in My Spirit, I am
instantaneous Perfection in the midst of all seeming chaos, illness or
tribulation. You will overcome the World in My Strength.

You can live but one moment at a time. This moment is the only one that is of
any consequence to you. Therefore I charge you to fill it with simple trust in
Me, and with perfect love. That is the answer to every subsequent moment as
it dawns.

There is no difficulty, no illness, no seeming tragedy that is too great for My
Love to overcome. But when you insist on turning away from Me to dwell in
fear or worry on the difficulty, I must stand aside until you come back to Me. I
can only manifest My Perfection in you when you allow Me to do so. That is
your right of choice, the perfect freedom I give to you to think and live as you
wish.

My Law is Perfect. I know you will eventually live in complete harmony with
Me and thus enter perfect happiness and achievement. You are, as yet, but
learning how to live as a free being. The time has come when you shall really
begin to claim your spiritual freedom through a clearer, simpler understanding
of My Presence.

I want you to know that My Great Law is Love. It is the Great Law because I
am Love, and all things that are perfectly created are done through the Power
of thought expressed in Love.

Therefore to the extent you live in love, forgetting and sacrificing self in
service, you become one with Me. It is fundamental to your health and
happiness that you shall Love with all your heart and mind. You shall love
your family, friends and neighbours. More important you shall love those who
hurt you, your so-called enemies, be they individuals or nations. I love all, for I
am all.

When you are in the throes of conflict and your mind turns to anger,
resentment and bitterness, remember that you are hating Me. The bitterness
of your distorted thoughts, often translated into harmful physical action, not
only destroys the well-being of others, but produces spiritual, mental and
physical illness in you. I never will illness upon My Children.

You shall learn to love all, and through your understanding, to forgive all.
When you become aware of evil coming to you, the only answer is to see Me,
the Perfect Christ within the other. That is the Man you shall love. Then you
can forgive the outer man, and be compassionate, for if he despitefully uses
you, he does so out of ignorance of My Law. Love him, pray for him, forgive
him, then you lift him up to Me and I lift you up also.

From this moment let love be your constant companion, then I shall be with
you, too. Love your people, love your work. Do all things as a loving service
for Me. Every moment will then be filled with joy, and power and success, for I
shall sustain you in everything you do.

The other Law you need to know is the Law of Mind which insists, necessarily
that an experience can only become real to you when you recognise it. What
ever you accept in consciousness becomes real. You exercise your faith
every time you do this. You have faith in the ground you walk upon, faith in
the life within you, faith in the Sun and the rain, faith in the chairs and bed you
use, faith in your ability to come here or go there. All such experiences you
daily accept as Reality and thus they become concrete experience.

It is this Law which naturally must operate when you think of Me. I too can
only become a Reality when you consciously accept Me as Real. When you
know I am the Almighty Love, Wisdom, intelligence and all good within you,
you are free forever.

From this moment I charge YOU to fill your life with love and to trust Me in all
things. Ask and I am instantly the Perfect Answer. Give me your burdens, and
I will disperse them. Forget the ills you hold so closely by remembering Me.
Forgive yourself in loving Me, and serving all. I am your Lord, and when you
keep your mind filled with the knowledge that health, joy, Prosperity and
everything that is Perfect are now pouring into your life they become your
own."

GOD BLESS YOU!

http://brothermandus.wwwhubs.com/mandus3.htm


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Radio Broadcast from Heaven - Via Berth Dudde

5/24/2013

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From 1937 until 1965 Bertha Dudde from Germany was permitted to receive a Divine Revelation through the Inner Voice. She described her Inner Word as the radio broadcast from Heaven.


God’s call to service .... Inner voice ....

05.10.1941 - received through and written down by Bertha Dudde

You should subordinate yourselves to the Lord in every respect, that is, you should always be willing to do that which is pleasing to God. You should only ever accept His will and whatever the inner voice then advises you to do will be right, for God Himself manifests His will to you through the inner voice. Thus, you carry out your will, so to speak, and yet it goes hand in hand with God’s will. In that case, you no longer need to worry, for you then you will live on earth under the protection of your spiritual friends who will mentally inform you of divine will. And spiritual striving will always be first required of you, although your earthly work ought not to be neglected, yet if you offer your services to God it is His will that you are at all times at His disposal, that you serve Him when He calls you to do so .... And you hear His call when you listen within. To be of service to God means to be ready for Him at all times and to follow His call. However, the call from above sounds gently and subtly in your heart, and in order to hear it you must practice humility, love, gentleness and peacefulness. Thereby you shape the heart’s ear which will perceive the most subtle call and you will always know when the Lord is in need of you .... Then He will no longer call you in vain, for then you will hear His voice and hurry to be of service to Him ....


 


Conditions for receiving the divine Word ....


The soul ....
The spiritual spark in the human being ....


Two worlds ....
Divine law of love ....


The path of love and faith ....
Acknowledging God ....



My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

 The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

 The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind. clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Bertha Dudde
November 22, 1953

http://www.bertha-dudde.info/english/ebiogr.html

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I choose this for me.

2/17/2013

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I am not one who meditates in the sense that I sit cross legged on a little pillow and attempt to empty out my mind of all that fills it. I've avoided that idea like the plague for years. I was scared, I was not taught to "meditate" and thus it didn't feel right or I did not feel it was "the right thing to do."

But I have come to see that I do meditate in my own way, and so do you. Mediating is thinking on something. Letting an idea just sit within. The trouble begins when we "sit with ideas" too long that we don't really wish to live.

I just came upon this meditation video. This is wonderful. This is perfect. Give yourself this gift I ask. Give yourself some time, some space, the gift of a quiet place to be, just be with these words. Let them touch your soul and open you to know, thus allow your soul to grow in a loving relationship the God.

So if this is "meditating" then I am all in. For are the kind of thoughts I choose to be my reality. - Deb

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Trust You Must

2/12/2013

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Trust the Inner Voice of Love. This my message, for this is what I have learned. During a period in which I had lost all faith, and was barely hanging on to the end my of rope, I cried out for help. And in response I felt a tug, and when I tugged back the communication began. My journal became my life line to this Comforting Light, which I named the Voice of Love. I had heard no other speak of such an experience, such an experience of conversion of being, such an experience of hearing words of comfort and direction given in the moment of my need. I begin my book, Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story, with the words that say it all. "My mind used to be filled with pain and fear. Now it is filled with Love and Comfort."

Just a few days ago, I came upon words written by the celebrated spiritual author and Catholic preist, Henry Nouwen. I invite you to read and compare excerpts from my book, Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story with Nouwen's book The Inner Voice of Love.  I didn't know him but I know what he knew. And this same Truth is what I wish to share now with all of you.

May your Joy Be Full,
Debra Clemente
 

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So you want to be purified, how much? How much do you want it? As you experience the glory side, the other side seems deeper and darker.

The more you experience in life the more you will be aware and thus more of My Love you can share. Do not hole away. I need you to live fully each and everyday. I come bearing gifts for you, gifts of patience, wisdom and clarity. My good fortune is yours as well as you accept My Love into your heart. These are the true Gifts of Christmas which I offer unto all.

What is required is that you detach from your dire attachment to the world. You cannot hold My hand and walk through life with Me and expect to live the life I have planned for you if you have the other hand full of ideas of the world. You cannot stuff your pockets with your fill of your worldly desires and then come to Me. I give you My All and will accept no less than your all for Me. Only in this way can you hear My Voice so plainly, so clearly.


Trust all is well, this is what is meant by having faith in God. God is good so we are to believe as God’s children that all of God’s goodness is available to each of us as well. We are to trust in God, trust in God’s goodness, purely and completely, without doubt or fear. For God is Love and Love does not know fear. No fear, God is near waiting in Love with Love to welcome all to the center of His heart Eden, Heaven on Earth.

Know what you want. See what you want. Be what you want. See it true. Evolution of consciousness. It’s expressed differently because it is coming from different channels. But all channel from the same Source of Truth. All water flows from the one same Fount. Amazing things can happen when allowed. Don’t let your mind be a plug which stops the flow. Let the good be as it may.

You have continually questioned what you have been told all of your life. You were made to know. You came into this world with a yearning for full remembrance of Truth. You are still yearning for more clarity but now confident that you are on the path to understanding and most important of all you feel and know My Love. You are My Love and you express and exude My Love. Oh yes, it’s all so lovely. Thank you for letting Me have this dance. It’s a long slow romantic heart to heart dance we have. I am in no rush to hurry on with life and nor should you be. When you stay close to Me, time (as you will) stands still. Come out of time and dance with Me.


I used to pray by talking, talking, talking, but never heard a word in return. I see now that I never stopped to listen, to listen in. I prayed my prayer then went back to the rush of the world, back to the noise and confusion. “Where is God?” I would say. “How am I ever to know what to do? How am I to believe when hate and pain is all I see true?”

And now you know and must show the world the Way unto the Words I write upon each heart. As you write My Words, this is a start. As this is the way you found My Voice as the Small Still Voice within you. You asked to know. You asked to show My Love. You asked for Me to so fill you with My Divine Love. You got your ego out of the way and surrendered your will unto Mine. You asked for guidance all the time.

I have always been here. I have always held you dear. But I could never and would never force My Will over yours. I want and need to be chosen. I have already chosen each of you. Your birthright is My Glory, but only for the asking, the asking by a truly repentant heart. Repenting of what? Repenting of your old ways, your selfish ego ways, your old single mindedness where you thought you knew it all. Forget all you have known and come unto Me like a little child full of wonder and a wondrous life you shall know.


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


Do you really want to be converted? Are you willing to be transformed? Or do you keep clutching your old ways of life with one hand while with the other you beg people to for help you change?

Conversion is certainly not something you can bring about yourself. It is not a question of willpower. You have to trust the inner voice that shows the way. You know that inner voice. You turn to it often. But after you have heard with clarity what you are asked to do, you start raising questions, fabricating objections,, and seeking everyone else's  opinion. Thus you become entangles in countless often contradictory thoughts, feelings, and ideas and lose touch with the God in you. And you end up dependent on all the people you have gathered around you.

Only by attending constantly to the inner voice can you be converted to a new life or freedom and joy.

Excerpt from:
The Inner Voice of Love
From Anguish to Freedom
by Henry Nouwen

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From Publishers Weekly: Henry Nouwen, Catholic priest and popular author (The Wounded Healer, 1972), hit a six-month spiritual and mental crisis at the end of 1987 during which he "wondered whether I would be able to hold on to my life. Everything came crashing down?my self-esteem, my energy to live and work, my sense of being loved, my hope for healing, my trust in God... everything." This book is his personal journal written during his time of anguish. For years, Nouwen felt his experience was too personal to share with the world, but on advice from friends, and in the hope that these insights would help nurture others, he published his journal entries. Although there are occasional gems here, most of these meditations are rather generic. Perhaps this generic quality may make Nouwen and his work more human to a public that has come to view him as a spiritual giant.
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From Scared to Sacred

2/7/2013

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How can it be that another writes the same as me? How can it be? Well, it is because we are all one indeed. For those of you that doubt it so, I like to share this link with you to a book which appears to tell, the same story that I do. 

Love is all around
and continually
available to each
and ever one of you.




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Many Stories, One Love

12/7/2012

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I see the Truth of God's Love
as a Golden Thread that weaves its way through
many of the many narratives Man has told
through the ages in an attempt to convey
a way for others to as well know this Love.
Debra Clemente

The following are just small tastes of the delicious Fruits of the Spirit which each link offers. Click on the title and or author name to explore for yourself the offerings.


Divine Love, The Greatest Thing in the World

"The Divine Love is that Love which belongs to or is a part of God, possessing His nature and composed of His Substance, and which when possessed by man to a sufficient degree, makes him divine and of the nature of God."  - Jesus, in a message received by James E. Padgett through spirit communications on May 15, 1917.

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A Divine Love Story
God is "madly in love" with us, said the medieval mystic and activist Catherine of Siena, and when we finally realize this truth, we'll discover that loving others is irresistible. Her Dialogue, prayers, and letters teach us to be alone with God in "the cell of our soul." Only then are we ready for public service.

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I am the True Vine
Monday, September 5th 1988 - Lay your life open today and every day for the pattern of Divine Love to be imprinted on you. And let all your actions and relationships be faithful to the pattern you receive. Life and light, sustenance and opportunity should unfailingly be regarded as means of bringing this about.

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Divine Inspirations Anonymous
Through My love I will guide you. Just receive it and you will go unto the right path.

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Heaven Letters
by Gloria Wendroff

Do you feel My hand in comfort on your forehead or your cheek? My hand is on you. This is one way I know to comfort you. Now that I have told you, can you feel My love?

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The Christ Blueprint

by Padma Aon

Divine Love nurtures the growth of all other forms of human or natural love into their ultimate potential, based on universal laws of Divine Truth and harmony – the Divine Design. This Divine Design leads to the greatest love and enjoyment for us in all aspects of life if we follow Divine laws and consistently ask for and receive Divine Love. God’s Divine Love is the foundation for our truest happiness in all ways, and indeed is our ultimate happiness.

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From Scared to Sacred
by Carol Woodliff

What would you do if a spirit voice asked you to sit for an hour a day and take down its messages? Would you question your sanity? Would you write?

Author Carol Woodliff shares beautiful poetic lessons from that spirit voice and honest personal essays reflecting on living that wisdom.

It is a journey that is funny, touching, mystical and grounded in the question, "How do we live those spirit teachings and be compassionate with our human self at the same time?" Carol invites you to join her in this exploration and listen to the whispers within your own heart.

“Life isn't a test. It is an opportunity for our spirits to experience our humanness in this wonderful dance we call life!”


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It's OK to Believe ... A Journey of Faith and Reason
by Katherine T Owen

For know this: there is not one thing existent upon the earth,
whether God-made or man-made, that did not first exist in thought alone.
When we step into our dreams, we claim their reality.”


excerpted from the book It's
Okay to Believe...
and the poem within titled Belief in What We Cannot See

Thank you so much for featuring the book, It's OK to Believe and inviting me to comment. No matter how powerful the spiritual experience there are moments when the spiritual doesn't seem relevant to our 'real' life. For myself I was living with disability and lack of support. This book is my poetic journey to bring my questioning mind - my reason, in line with my spiritual experience - my faith. Doing so has allowed me to commit to the spiritual journey more fully and learn to invite that Love, that Strength, that Joy into every aspect of my life. My prayer and intention is that the book helps others to do the same.
May your Light shine bright and shine the way for others,
Katherine


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