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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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Just Stay Here

4/11/2014

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Journaling my Journey

April 2014 ~ Debra Clemente 


It can only happen if we will it. What ever we believe is our will. Our will be done on earth. But Jesus taught us to pray to our Father asking that His will be done on earth, not ours. Any ideas we may have of how life is or can be are so very small compared to God’s idea of grandiosity.

Miniscule. This is why you must see through Me and allow My eyes divine to guide thee. I see what you do not see.

I pray, I ask, I plead that Your will be done on earth my Father, our Father. For only You know what we truly need. We need Your eyes divine to see. We need Your ears divine to hear that you are always near speaking unto our hearts constantly. Give us dear Lord your eyes and ears.

Humanity must choose Me, choose to know Me and recognize Me everywhere. For everywhere I am at work as love and beauty in your midst. You must not continue to insist that life is hard and hardly fair and that I am far away and do not care. All those thoughts of yours, yours individually and collectively drive me away. Not truly away, but away from your knowing. Your knowing of my true glory which is your birth right as well, but not if you continue to tell those sad old stories.

You have been ignoring My admonitions, My pleadings. And instead of dining with Me in Heaven, dining with the Divine you have been feeding on the food of swine. I feed you only truth and beauty for I this is who I am. I want each and all to know Me. Know Me intimately. Know Me by Heart and speak to Me freely not by rote words or fancy phraseology but as a child asking to know all, the all I am.

This Love I am is comfort in uncomfortable times. It is the wind beneath your wings. It brings joy to your step. My dear this love is what brings you everything. This is why it is My love you must seek. Seek the Kingdom of God, My love, and you will find the great treasure I have buried in your heart. But you must seek. You must first start. This must be an act of will on your part.

Then as you do, the forces of Heaven will rush out to greet you meeting you more than half way. They will take your hand and as you grasp in faith they shall lead you to me, all things heavenly, godly and good, truly good. Good for all, all of Heaven and Earth, all of humanity seen and unseen. You My dear are part of such a much larger family than your eyes can see. All whom love you very much and delight so when you return home to Me.

Thank you Lord of Love, the love of my heart, for reminding me. I am on my way home. I take Your hand. I give my will unto You and say guide me, carry me home.

You are there dear. You always have been one with Me. It is only up to you to see.

I am an eternal being. There is no beginning or end to me. I am one with the Father. Amen.

Ah. Just stay here. Be at peace with Me.

 

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How are we to believe?

1/22/2014

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People have lied to us, lied to us more than once.  People who we have trusted, in confidence have let us down. Even those we have held in high esteem have caused us not to believe that we can trust anyone or anything.

Thus here we are, told by these same ones, these others, to trust God, the very one that we can not see. How are we to believe that which, or whom we can not see? The very idea goes against everything we know to be, to be true. For the only way we have been able to believe is if we see.

Someone promises to do something, to produce something. “Great,” we say aloud to them. But under our breath, we doth protest and say quietly “When I see it, I will believe it.” Not understanding that by our worlds we have shut the door on all the potential that could be, potential that even this other could bring. But our words, our thoughts don’t allow, for our mind sees not how. Thus we trust not our brother. This one we can see. This one we think we know, but we know him not. This is part of what we forgot. We forgot that Christ as well lives in him and asks to be entrusted with our wills.

“What? What do you say? Are you sure you wanted to put it that way?” the reader questions. Questions are very good. Questions are the only way God and God’s ways will be understood. Jesus believe in God and in Man. He believed in the potential in all, that which we don’t have eyes to see. He knew (knows) God so intimately that he knew God could do anything including work through any man that walks the land, not just those that say they know God for God knows all men.

Debra Clemente
Journaling My Journey
January 22, 2014

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Surrender to this Power

10/11/2013

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Sun and Sand, oil painting by Debra Clemente
Here I am, at the beach. The waves are calling, calling to me, calling my name, telling me their story. Listen, they say, listen, to what we say. Watch what we do. For as we do, so can you. We go with the flow. We roll with the punches. We may break. But we are not broken our strength remains, remains the same.

It is the energy which cycles through all and goes by one name. It is the Power of the Earth. It is the Power of the Heavens. It is the Force that keeps your feet planted. It is all the same, no division, no separation. Continual, dependable, forever It Is. Forever It Was. Forever It Shall Be. This Force is the Truth of Eternity.

Do you allow, allow as we, for this Force to flow through you? Do you allow It to break free destroying all perceived boundaries? You may see us as broken, you may believe that because you no longer can see, that the Power we are has dissipated, gone, wasted, died. But your eyes deceive you. You should not believe you. There is always more to the story than you can know from your perspective. The Force of the current continues beyond your sight. We disappear, but the Force within us, that gave life and power to us, cycles back into the Wholeness we have always been.

We surrender to this Power, this Holy Grace, and as we do we gain again the strength this Power Is. We are reborn. You shall see us again. In new form yeh, but the same. We keep coming back to you. Waving again and again to you who stand upon the shore, wondering what lies beyond. Just wading you are. You understand not the depth or breadth of this Ocean of Life you are one with.

We ask… will you join us? Will you submerge yourself, be willing to lose yourself to find Yourself?

April 26, 2013 Journaling my Journey ~ Debra Clemente
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God on Board

8/20/2013

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Where they is a will there is a way.

Where there is God’s Will there is a multitude of Ways.

I need a bumper sticker on my heart that says “God on board.”

They will know you by your love, which is My Love. This is enough of a sign for Me to give them. Words will never be enough.


Journaling my journey - Debra Clemente
August 19, 2013
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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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The Truth I Heard

6/30/2013

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The Voice of Truth speaks to me. I write what I hear. Now, I share it here with you. ~ Debra Clemente

June 29, 2013 

I am the Way, the Truth, the Life. I am for you to know. I am for you to show. I am for you to be, so you may see, you may know, you may believe the Truth that Is. My Eyes see. My Eyes see all, far, wide, high, low, everywhere there is. There is nothing I do not know. I know the Way, for I Am the Way. The best Way, the only Way, the Way of Truth, the Way of Love, the Way of Compassion, the Way of Peace, the Way of Joy.

I am the Rock, the “Rock of Gibraltar,” the Rock that will not falter. On Me, with Me, as Me you must stand as you walk the land. Trust Me. Trust not the ground upon which your feet stand. Your feet touch the earth. They are of the physical world which is shaky and often so shady. Darkness conceals much which is True, which is Real. Thus, to truly see you must trust Me.


The Truth is the Rock that will not falter, although many minds of men attempt to alter. Stand on the Truth again and again. Let others go on with their stories, only their own soul will their lies destroy. It is for each to live his Truth, his own Truth, the Truth every bit of him knows through and through. It is this Truth, his Clear Conscious that will win in the end. For this Truth is what sets him free, free to be all he is, and not to cower in fear of what may be.

As clear as day, you may see life this way. But not when you look to the outside. It is only when you turn inside that you will find the Truth that does not hide. Go within and seek. Take a giant leap of faith and peek. Peek into the Truth, the Peak, the Ultimate Expression of You, this Highest, Best and Total Part of You. Ask for the Truth, the Ultimate Truth, no less, nothing else, not second best, not what someone else says, but what the Heart of you knows and wishes to show.

Take the journey inward, to go onward, past where you are, farther than you can see. Come within. Take My Hand. Walk this walk with Me. My Eyes see what you can not see. Why? Because My Eyes are everywhere, they are everything. Nothing, absolutely nothing hides from Me. So you must trust, trust in Me to see what you can not see. This is the faith Jesus said you would need.

When he said “Trust in Me.” It was I whom spoke. I spoke through the man he was. My Words arose from within him and out unto the world through his throat. I Am, whom he said would come again. I Am whom he told you to let in, to open the door and allow Me to show you how to live, live the life of no sin. I am here. I am there. I am everywhere. I am here for you now, the one writing, the one reading. I am here for each, even the ones whom do not know, whom do not believe in Me.

Do you hear it now? Did you just hear it again? Are you just now beginning to understand? Yes, it was Me, Me within him, that spoke those Words you know by heart, but had not until now understood how it could be. “Believe in Me.” You heard him say. “Believe in Me” I said through him, for I was with him and spoke to and through him as I now do you. These Words of Mine are Truth, Eternal and Internal Truth for each and all of you, for you to choose. I must be chosen and yet the choice is always up to you. You have free will to choose how you wish to see, how you wish to be. You can live small and earthly or rise up in consciousness with Me and use My Eyes to see unlimited possibilities always.

The Light I AM, filled with Me you may choose to be, you may become who you Are. The choice is yours. Yours now, not later, not someday, not wishing upon a distant star. I say, the time is Now! Start where you are to enjoy life, this life I give, this life I offer. From My Well you must drink. You must “get drunk” on Me. Drunk on the Love I shall fill you with as you come to me. Come to me so empty, not full of thought, not full of belief. But full of faith, trusting completely, trusting Me. But to trust Me, you must know Me.

How can you truly know anyone that you do not spend time with? Spend time with Me. Get to know Me. Ask Me what you wonder. Ask Me for what you need. Ask Me how you can help others, help others to see, help others as Me. And I will give you My Love, My Love to be, so others may see, may see Me within you. I will give you My Words to speak. Not to preach, but to be, be this Love I Am for all. This Love Jesus was. This Love Christ Is. Yes, I will christen you with My Love. To you, My Holy Spirit will bring My Love, so gently as if on the wings of a dove. Yes, My Love will be Heaven sent. This is what I offer, this is My Gift.

Have you received? Do you know Me and not just believe? You must know Me to show Me, to show Me to the world. When you so ask, I will come. I will come as Love. Love unto your heart. Love unto your being. This Love will change you from a “reason being” to a “heart-felt being.” You will be, you will become who you are, who I Am. In this Way, you shall know Me. In this Way they shall know you, they shall know Me within you. They shall know you by your love, Our Love.


Truth comes to me and then flees. As Truth is only in the moment, the moment of need.

The moment of Truth is only a moment indeed. And yet, as this moment is eternal, Truth is always present to be received.


I have to empty my mind to know the Way of the Divine. Only in this way, Truth I can find.

I have been reading about Sai Baba today, words he has said and what others say about him. I hear within his Words the same Truth which Jesus Christ, spoke. And within the comments of others, I hear the same confusion that still surrounds the Words of Jesus to this day. People have either placed Jesus so high above or so low below.

Hardly anyone has understood that it was Me whom spoke. For I am within all, and just as Sai Baba said, in some this Light (I Am) is quite bright and in many others quite dim. But the Light I Am was one hundred percent in him. When I spoke My Truth, the people could not see that it was Me, the “Truth I Am” speaking. All they could see was he. And they either thought that they were unworthy to be in this God/Man presence or thought the man unworthy to claim as he did.

When I said I was Great, when I spoke of how I am All to all, they couldn’t hear. They didn’t recognize My Voice, as the same Voice that calls to each within. And so as they heard My Word, they said it was absurd, that the man was a fake. But he was not. A real man, he was, God realized man indeed. This is the difference he wanted all to see. Just as Jesus Christ, he said “Follow Me.” Yes, the same Voice, the Voice of God within was speaking.

And some whom read these words will indeed think you are absurd, crazy in fact, for believing that you are Divinely receiving these Messages.  Messages of Truth repeated again and again, so they may be present in the physical world for eyes in need to see. And perhaps wonder and then desire to know for themselves, the Truth that lives within, the Truth of Me.

Many names people call me. Many incarnations I have had. But not always so fully have I been allowed to live so free as to be the Breath, the Words, the Hands, the Feet, the Christ, God manifest as man, for the world to see and thus believe I Am.

I am here now with you, with all. Waiting ever so patiently to be called, to be requested, to have my Presence felt, to have one surrender their life to Me, no matter what hand they have been dealt.

You are not going to find Me unless you look. You have to seek, seek with desire to find and know, to know Me. Each must so seek. Seek Me within themselves, for themselves, in no one else and for no one else. Seek to know yourself. I am here. I am near. Draw near. Draw near and seek. Seek to fully know Me.

When I get out of my mind, I am one with the Divine.


June 30, 2013

Whatever it is that you want to prove, you will prove. The proof will be your reality. You will see what you want to see. You can prove Me. You can prove to Me to yourself. My Truth, can be your reality. You can see, as I see, if you so believe, if you so desire this sight which is so infinitely higher. But you must first imagine it to be. You must see it now as your reality.“The proof is the pudding,” so to say. What you make of it is what it shall be. You will only get out of it what you first put into it and that means what you believe. All is created by thought first. Think about it and it shall be.

Let it go. Let it fly away with the breezes that blow. It will be gone. So gone, it will be as if it never known. Let it go, to go on. If you can not drop it and set it free, then hand it over. Give it to Me. Truly give it to Me. Don’t take it back. Think not of it again. Know when you give it to Me that you are in My care and what is done is done. Then go have fun. Rejoice, for you made the choice to let go, to no longer know whatever it was that you once knew, that kept you small and made you blue.

Thank the Lord above. Thank the Law that rules, that this is true for you. Give thanks. Humble yourself. Be full of gratitude. Joy and peace shall be your attitude. Your attitude determines your altitude. So let it be, fly free. Fly free with Me, the Divine in you. Make Me true. Believe in Me in you. And as you do, you so shall see, you shall see the Works We do. Wonders you will know. Wonders you will show.

Believe in Me, in you. This you can, this you will, do. Believe, have faith in yourself. Look to no one else. You are all that I Am. I Am all that is. You are everything My Dear, see this, see this clear. I am here for you. See Me. Make Me true. Rise up. Break free. Be who you are. Be what you can be. See unlimited possibilities with Me.

Forget doubt. That is living without knowing who you are. Live like you know it, then you shall show it. I am as good as My Word and so are you. Prove Me true. Say it so. Then let it be, be as you say. Let it come to you, come as it may, come as it will, as you allow, now that you know how.

Do not clog the stream that flows, with thoughts of that you wish not to know. Be without thought. Let no thought arise that tells you otherwise. All that you think is in reality Dear so very limiting. You think what you know and thus as your reality is continues to show. So, I say, Let is all go. Be thoughtless. Be limitless.

What is a thought anyway? It is what ever you say and you say what you see. What you have decided is or can be. You think what others have thought before. A you have been told you must know history, you must know the rules of science, you must know all that the learned/teacher say. But look my Dear, at the life these thoughts have created. Do you really want your life that way? Do these men you so revere live lives beyond reproach? Are they truly worthy to follow? Look where they lead you to. The life they lived you shall live too as you so believe, as you so repeat as they say. It is your choice to follow blindly along or open your eyes and another way.

I Am this Way. I Am the Way and I am here now for you. If you who read these words wish so to understand, then hear this Truth. I Am the One that lives in each and every one of you. You can be, who I Am, who you Are. Once you put your thoughts away that keep Me from showing, that keep your Truth at bay. Let Me shine. Let My Light shine through. Let Me show you a life that the small you never knew, but the Big You already Is.

Let Me show you who I Am. Let Me carry you now through the sands, the sands of time that shift more than you know. Let it go. Let is all go and go on. Go one with Me. See what is, what can be your reality.

If you must think, then think on Me. Think wonderfully. Think beautifully. Thank Me for the beauty you see, My creations, nature’s gifts which continually celebrate this Life I give. Celebrate Me! Chant the name of the Lord. Whatever name you call Me, call Me forth. In to your knowing, into your showing, let Me be, your reality.


One day I write what the Spirit that lives within prompts me to say. And then the next day, my eyes are drawn to a book already “on the shelf,” written with God’s help, saying again the words I hear within spoken to me so sweetly, so softly.

The Voice, the Inspiration is the same, though called by many names. What I spoke before, I speak again. And will continue to use one’s such as you until each and every so knows Me and listens and believes and trusts the Truth I Am that lives within.


Debra Clemente and Heavenly Company

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Trust Me

6/20/2013

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Notes from of my journal ~ 2010

These are some of my early inspired writings. I wrote what I heard, but I did not yet hear what I wrote. Now as I do, all is clear to me, a riddle no more. My ears can hear and my eyes can see. ~ Debra Clemente

You don’t have to be entirely awake to begin to grasp the depth of my words but your heart/soul needs to be stirring. Just as all wisdom is given, inner guidance God direction, these knowings come as whispers to our soul. To those still in deep sleep the words are lost but if one is semiconscious they have a chance of arousal. It takes quiet to hear the whispers.

The Voice of Love.


Come in peace

Inquire

Believe this

Trust me

Don’t question

Ask not

The trouble with thinking

Too much brain power

Guided by God

God in me

I AM

Hidden from view

So obvious

Always there

Tell the lies

Unwritten rules

Guide them

That’s us

Days of my youth

Now it is easy

Supposed to tell

Don’t keep it

Let me rest

Where we go from here

To there

By the book

Knowing versus believing

All along

Waiting for you

Perfection

In the moment

All here

Available now

Nothing to do

As it happens

Look back

You’ll see it

Know it

Believe it

Be it

All there is

Stop wondering

Know

Know God

Know good

Know you

Know me

In good spirit

In God spirit

Break the chains

I like it like this

This point in time

Flash forward

Love has to do with it

In love

Long live

Live long

Try not to think

The pieces come together

And you see the whole

You are whole

The whole with ease

Domesticate

Dumb as educate

Away we go

Through it all

About now

Educate the birds?

Journey home

No editing

Like it is

Prisoners like Michalago’s sculptures

Love

Beauty

Perfection

User friendly

Times change

Point of view

Open up

Let’s see

Like Jesus

Be a saint

Because who says?

They say

Who are they?

They know more than you?

Oh really?

You have the power

I have the power

Find it in here

Let it out

Free yourself

Go on

Live life

Live and be the Truth

God’s perfection

Amen

Upon refection

See me in you

So much the same

Unique view

What you see

Seemingly

Fresh start

In despair

I found God there

The easy way

I like to be used

Use me today

Happy as a clam

It all works

Works so well

Perfectly

I’m finding out

Within

All the time

No time

Timeless

Here

Now

Glimpse

No one told me

Found out within

No one can restrain me

No going back

Better each day

A sensation

Don’t name it

Know it all

Games we play

Who made the rules?

No need

Know need

Have it all

Be it all

Apparition

Anything I need

Know it all

All here

I can tell

All hear

Hear ye

It’s been said

No telling

Twisted tale

Rise up

Meet the day

Bliss

What Jesus knew

What can be

Already is

Pattern

Quilt

Woven tapestry

A little bird told me

Float along

Don’t paddle upstream

Turning point

The river gets wider and smoother

And oh the view!

I’m done with that

What’s done is done

Over and out

Consider this

All I ask

Receive much more

What’s this?

How can I think?

Nothing to wait for

I was told

I now know

I know now

Now I know

Know now

More than me

Don’t stop there

Keep it up

Boundless beauty

For all

They knew it

The signs are there

No denying

Can’t blind my eyes

I hear it

I feel it

I see it

No question

As real as real can be

Step forward with me

Come into the light

Of full life

Be a part of it all

Do you hear me?

Or are you just watching my lips move?

I want you to know

I had to tell you

Don’t let your mind limit you

So close

Doesn’t seem right

The whole truth

Full spectrum light

It all works

Gifts

How can you hear with so much noise?

It’s like a whisper to your soul

Listen and learn

Learn and live

Live and learn

We couldn’t see it

Where this comes from

Wake up

All you need

That’s what I hear

Surrender and be set free

No one could hear me

More than meets the eye

What I heard

I am moved

Where I find myself

So many stories

Just in time

Find yourself here

The way shower

Jesus

The Christ

Close your eyes

And open your heart

Done waiting

Ready now

The way I feel

Wipe your eyes

No need to get ready

As you are

Know what is

Now what is

Bring it to the surface

For all to see

Awaken me from my slumber

Because you were told

When you know the truth

It speaks so loudly

Can’t be ignored

Hidden no more

No one can give it to you

You have to find and take it yourself

Like a party-line

You have to be here

There is no where to go

Once you know you’ll understand

Sounds like a riddle

Crazy as it seems

Don’t listen to me

These are just words

Kind of like this

Feels right

Going my way

Worth exploring

Look around

It occurred to me

This is what it is

It is what it is

Just that

Funny to think

I looked again

Now it’s transparent

I don’t get that channel

What channels do you get?

Choose your programming carefully

And prayerfully.


"Painting Titles" The Voice of Love Speaks to Me, by Debra Clemente
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The Short Path

6/2/2013

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A Quiet Spot, by Debra Clemente



Though I had no idea at the time I was on any path at all, as I look back I can see that I was on the "Short Path" indeed. ~ Debra Clemente 
Are you familiar with the works of Paul Brunton? He has just recently been brought to my attention. He, as me, was inspired to continually write spiritually inspired sayings which came to his mind. Brunton speaks of two different paths to awakening. I have included below some of his notes which outline them to some degree the two paths to awakening, The Long Path and the Short Path.

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The basis of the Short Path is that we are always divine. It is with us already, it is no new thing, and we only have to try to recognize what is already there.

Meditation has two parts. The lower one belongs to the Long Path. Also, the religions are for the beginners and popular masses. They, too, belong to the Long Path. To the Short Path belong Christian Science, Ramana Maharshi's teachings, Vedanta, Krishnamurti's teaching, and Zen. They all say You Are GOD. The Long Path says instead: You are only a man. The one says that you are man and the other says that you are also really rooted in God.

A very important point: because the ego lives in its own darkness, it cannot give light. The light may come only from the Overself, which is the Sun and Light of human existence. With the reason we can control the ego to some extent, but it is not possible to control the Overself. As regards Enlightenment, this is not coming from self-willed effort; it is coming only by what the Overself does to him. It is a matter of Grace--unpredictable--and it is the last secret. It is like the wind that comes you do not know where from and goes you do not know where to. It is a mystery. At the end we have to be like little children and leave our Enlightenment to the Father and give up our lives to him. On the Long Path the aspirant tries to improve himself. He experiences successes and failures, ups and downs. When he is disappointed, he gets melancholy. On the Short Path such a situation cannot arise, because he has faith like a little child. He has given up all his future to Overself-God and he has enough faith to trust to it. He knows he has made the right decision and therefore is always happy. He depends on this GRACE, he knows It, that It comes from the wisest being behind the world. Whatever will come, it will be the best. He is always relying on the Overself and having the joy in it.

The Short Path is a cheerful Path, a Path of happiness. Just before this begins, the aspirant may experience the Dark Night of the Soul. He feels utterly helpless, has no feeling of spiritual Reality. It is a melancholy time--no feeling of spirituality or longing for it. He is neither worldly nor spiritual. He feels alone and abandoned and separated by a wall from his Guru. He feels God has forgotten him. This dark night may last a short time or long years. He is unable to read spiritual things, or think about them. There is no desire for ordinary things either. He feels sad and disappointed and may even try suicide. In this unhappiness even those who love him cannot bring him comfort. In both hemispheres, Western and Eastern, there is a saying: the night is darkest just before dawn. He is on the lowest point. After that, the Short Path brings back the Joy--just like clouds moving away from the Sun.

The best advice is, first, that it will not last forever; he must have patience. Second, he must have hope. Then he reaches a better level than ever before. The Dark Night of the Soul does not come to every seeker. It is like a shadow thrown by the Sun. When the Sun appears in the subconscious, the shadows arise. But it is the beginning of a great inner change. It is not a wasted time; there is a great deal of work going on--but in the subconscious--to root out the ego. It is being done by the Overself. It is a sign of Grace, but the aspirant nevertheless feels unhappy.

In the Short Path there are usually much fewer exercises to practise. It is not necessary to sit down specially to meditate, but to try to be always in meditation. When you are busy outwardly, meditation naturally takes a different form than when you sit down for it. During the active part of the day, meditation takes the form of remembrance, always to try to remember the Overself: IT IS (That is enough). In the special meditation time our object is not to improve the character. During the meditation we have to empty our mind of thoughts as quickly as possible, let the mind become still. Ordinarily we live in our thoughts, in our little selves, even if the thoughts are spiritual. Therefore we have to keep away from all thoughts. If you want to think of the Overself, which is without any form, it is not possible. We try, but any idea, form, or shape is wrong. You cannot imagine it. So better not to try but to be still. You must not remain in the ego. "Be still [let go] and know that I AM GOD," says the Bible.

~ PB ~  Paul Brunton


http://www.paulbrunton.org/index.php.
http://wisdomsgoldenrod.org/notebooks/query=long+and+short+paths
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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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