Lord with all my heart I seek Your face:

From such will come the peace I long.

Holy, Holy, Holy:

Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty...
He was, He is, He is to come!
(Rev 4.8)

Together we shall Be:

Together we shall rise, above the earth together, entwined one heart together, we shall rise...
Above the clouds, we shall leave this world together, how much this heart yerns to be together.Lord let us fly... Lord give me wings to fly into the desert into the Holy place you have willed...There in the quietness You will come gently, come quickly, You will whisper, gently whisper...Together we will Be.

Happy Birthday Jesus:

We have many lovely memories of Christmas' past but what stands above the rest is the birthday cake and candles and not forgetting the Happy Birthday song sung with full measure, to Jesus by my own children...Yep, all things pass Lord but You and our Blessed Mother have remained through the passing years, our total constant...
Happy Bithday Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our total focus to Heaven, to God:

I shall lift up my eyes unto the Lord, from there shall come my help...My help shall come from the Lord who is my Shepherd, nothing shall I want. He leads me beside green pastures where He gives me rest. Near gently running water He leads me to revive my drooping spirit (Psalm 23).
Lord you overlook our sins,so that we may repent...Yes, You love all that exists , You hold nothing of what You alone have made in abhorence, for had You hated anything, You would not have formed it (Wisdom.11). Therefore, the Spirit of the Lord has been given up,to enter each and every heart... May God grant me to speak as He alone would wish and express thoughts worthy of His gifts (wisdom.7)
Oh little Saints of God, have constancy and faith.(Rev.13.v10)

Out of the darkness we are enveloped by Your all consuming Light:

The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary, and She conceived of the Holy Spirit...
Holy Mother help our yes, be as Your yes, giving birth through the breathe of the Holy Spirit, to Jesus in this time and space that has so pleased our Heavenly Father, to place us. With our total focus and love to Heaven, to God! Let us have the courage to die daily to ourselves, in the little unseen ways of inner self not so much to the outer world...You are the potter, we are Your little ball of clay, it is a very messy business that's for sure Lord but make us not so much into beautiful ornate vessels, that can only be admired from afare...but functional ones, that can be grasped by your hand at anytime, dependable to Your heart, to be used as You so will.

God's roses, buttercups and daisies:

In God's rose garden there are strewn, buttercups & daisies too.
Each in their own way gives full measure and praise to God.
Don't rush to pluck the roses' because their thorns are sharp
the buttercups and daisies are just as precious to God's heart.

The beauty of The Eternal Rose:

All gentleness,all beauty, all preciousness, all loving, all forgiving, all powerful, almighty Heavenly Father. All creation, is gifted from Your hand, Willed from Your heart, not one moment of one second, not one minute of one hour, not one day passes without Your knowing, Your touch Your inspiration...
We are blessed, truly blessed, to see with such clarity Your love opening to our understanding through Your gentle outpouring, from the eternal river,brought gently, ever gently upon, within, from beneath the eternal wing... Flowing, always flowing out from the blessed temple, Your holy temple, flowing up, flowing out and through The Beloved, Your Beloved, our beloved... Lord Jesus Christ.
Not one moment of one second of one hour shall we be separated, ever separated for we are willed for all eternity to Be to be at peace within Your tender loving arms.

Every saint has a past, every sinner a future:

In the 5th century it was suggested that St Augustine could not possibly profess the Faith because he has previously been a great sinner.
Augustine suggested to his brothers in the faith, to such a statement they might reply, "Augustine is a bishop of the Catholic Church...He bears his burden and will
have to give an account of it before God. I met him in the company of good men.
If he is a bad man,he will know it. But even if he is good, it is not in him I have put my trust, because the first thing I learnt in the Catholic Church is not to put my hope in man...We are not doing our apostolate but Gods! because God has willed that this be so"...

Let us not recoil from your forgiveness Lord but desire to pull ever closer to You...We are not worthy to stand in Your prescence, but by Your loving mercy alone You have now made us worthy to take our place with You... You have washed us clean by your blood...You promised to pull closer still...Lord come so close that we shall find that peace we cannot find in this world...We shall be so as one with You, we shall emulate all You are becoming as one,made transparent by Your love.

To thine own self be true, because Truth sets you free to recline upon the breast of Jesus:

"Those who live by hypocrisy can perhaps achieve the sound of prayer but they cannot posses its voice, because there is no life in them...They lack the desire to fulfil the Father's Will"
( St Augustine)

The suffering servant:

..."No looks to attact our eyes
A thing despised and rejected by men
A man of sorrows and familiar with suffering
A man to make people screen their faces
He was despiced and we took no account of Him"...
(Isaiah.53.3)

Act Justly
Love Tenderly
Walk Humbly with your God...
(Micah.6.v.8)

I do not want from your abundance:

Jesus said to Thomas..."Reach hither thy finger and behold My hand
Reach hither thy hand & thrust it into My side...Be not faithless,
but believe"... (John 20.v27)



I do not want from your abundance but want you to give from your nothingness.

I am the Beloved, therefore I shall become the Beloved:

Lord, You alone have put into my heart a most marvelous love...
You have Chosen me before the dawn of time.
You have Blessed me from the waters of my baptism.
You have Broken me by my daily hidden trials.
You have Given me to all those who have need of You.
I can truly say, I am the Beloved...Therefore, my gift of love to You,for as long as I have breath to give...My will to be as Your will, to become the Beloved.

Over the line!

"I see the Lord before me always,
for with Him at my right hand nothing can shake me.
So my heart was glad and my tongue cried out with
joy, my body too, will rest in hope"...
(Acts 2. v.25)

Heaven is less than one heart beat away

May we touch You through each other, always in the little one's & lesser things, You are!

I will praise You:

May we praise You through our Blessed Mother, Queen over all the Heaven and the Earth...
May we praise You through Your angels and in Your saints...
May we praise you in each flower that opens, that gives all it can through its very beauty and sweet, sweet fragrance...
May we praise you in each rain cloud, in each raindrop that feeds this fertile land...
May we praise you in Brother Sun that warms the earth, brings forth the harvest and truly gladdens the heart...
May we praise you in the crisp cold night, that brings forth the multitude
of twinkling stars from Heaven and shines forth out majestic Sister Moon...
May we praise You in the termultious crashing of the sea, breaking upon the shore...
May we praise You througth each other, where there is need may we always lovingly give without reserve... Stretch forth to give all You first gave so abundantly to us...
Almighty Good and most powerful, tender loving God, our God we only know You as our most compassionate loving Heavenly Father...We stand before you and praise You by our most ordinary and very simple lives...Amen.

Love is the cause of forgiveness & forgiveness the result:

Happy just to Be:

We are happy just to Be
Wherever that being is
As long as our Lord
Is happy to be there too.

What is perfect joy:

"The Floretti"



Blessed Francis called brother Leo, "Brother Leo write, What is true joy...
A messanger arrives and says that the masters at Paris have entered the Order.
Write: this is not true joy.
Again: that all the prelates beyond the mountains (the Alps). archbishops and
bishops; and again, that the King of France and the King of England (have entered):
write: this is not true joy.
Again: that my Brothers have gone to the infidels and have converted them all to the faith. Again: that I have such grace from God that I heal the sick and work many miracles: I tell you that all these things there is not true joy!
But what is true joy?
I am returning from Perugia and in the depths of the night I come here to the Porziuncola and in the wintertime, muddy and so cold that icicles form on the bottom of my tunic and hit against my legs and blood comes out of such wounds.
And thus besmirched by mud and cold and ice I come to the door and after I have knocked and called for some time, a brother comes and asks: Who's there?
I answer: Brother francis.
And then he says: Go away! this is not a decent hour to be going about: so you
won't get in!
And if i would again insist, he might answer: Go away! You're no more than a
simpleton and an idiot, so don't come back again! We are so numerous and such that we have no need of you! And I stand again at the door and say: For the love of God take me in this night!
And He would respond: I will not!
Go to the Crosiers' place and ask them!

I tell you (Leo), If I would put up with all this and not be upset, in this is
true and real virtue and the salvation of one's soul!".

(The little flowers of St Francis).

I AM not worthy, but You have made me worthy:

I Am Truth, I AM Spirit, Come!
Give up all you are... for all I Will you to be , Come!
Come to Me...In this My Body, Come! I AM waiting, always waiting, Come!
Come to Me...In this My Blood, I Am waiting, Come! To make all things new, Come!
Come to Me...In My Holy WORD, I Am waiting Come!...Enter in, experience My beating, unfathenable, tender heart, Come!
Come to Me...Through each other in all Truth, Come!
Come to Me...In Spirit I AM HE, Come! Quickly, please, please Come!
In My humanity you shall find your life, Come!
Don't stop to ask how... just trust I AM calling, Come!
In all simplicity I AM here,Come! Needfully waiting for your homecoming Come!...
I know you think you are not worthy, but I Have made you worthy...Come!

In Gods garden:

Sweet garden of Gethsemene, how we tremble at your gate...
Enter in for here is a place of deep yearning, a place
where your Good God calls to the inner resece of your heart...
Take off your shoes, all your pretence that guards you, in
the world is as nothing, all is stripped away...It will take
much courage to stand on such Holy ground, more courage than you
alone have to now yield...
Your Heavenly Father knows you through and through, no effort to hide
will do, just Be in this holy place, yes, all that you have been fashioned
to become by Gods right hand...Heart is calling unto heart, do not be afraid
All barriers are removed through a most intimate exchange of Spirit.
Yes, you will have no strength to speak, but The Spirit reaches out
refreshing what is a barren most painful place...Yield, yield often...
Peace will come, it will come quickly, it comes silently, it is willed to
come. Silently no man sees its coming, or its going but it moves...
Willed by our Heavenly Father, the garden of Gethsemean...
O sweet garden of sorrows, let us not fear your isolation,
your silence, your barrenese... From such a Holy place all strength all
dignity is brought forth of the Fathers love, accomplishing all
that our Good God has willed.

For those who believe in God, no explination is necessary
For those who do not, no explanation is possible.

A heart in tune with God:

King David led his people on, in heart filled praise he sang...
Upon his harp, held to his breast, his spirit high so rang.
Lord, I know I'm not much of anything and little can I do but as King David gave his heart,so too I give to You xxx

Our Mother adorned with the Sun:

..."The dragan was enraged with the woman
and went away to make war on Her children
that is, all who obey Gods commandments and bear witness for Jesus"...
(Rev.12.v.1-17).

Pray for us Mother:

Most Holy Mother...you saw in all, our needful Lord
In the sick you tended His weeping wounds
In the dying, you were at His side with comforting prayer
to afford Him dignity in the many broken bodies...
In the hungry, you fed Him from your nothingness
In the destitute, you provided Him with humble shelter...
In all and to all, you bowed your whole being and opened
up as a pure channel so that through our Good Gods total
providence, could much be accomplished.
Throughout all, you were seldom given the lights of reassurance and for the greater part you walked in Holy solitude, misunderstood by those who should have been your support. Separation, Holy darkness, were to be your only consolation... One heart joined so faithfully to her Lords heart, how you yearned for Him ... Indeed, Lady Poverty was your faithful companion, as too she accompanied Jesus into the garden of Gethsemane and from Her poured total consolation, indeed Her Holy gift. You held firm to the gentle whispers that were given so sparingly but so assuredly long ago...These made you truly whole, truly resolute at all cost to bring forth our Good Gods purest Will. In doing so, you became a Holy Mother to the many , whilst here on earth... But you now continue, long after your passing into Jesus arms to feed the many hungry souls through spiritual nourishment, throughout all of time. We indeed love you dear Mother! for all you were and for all that it has pleased our Good God, that you have now become.xxx

Foxes have holes and swallows nests:

How long oh Lord, how long?

"If any man comes to Me, without first forsaking all he is and all he loves ...If he does not carry his cross & come after Me,he cannot be My disciple"...

(John 14.v.26)

Blessed rose of our Good God:

Purest rose, strong and bold
from your beauty much love
shall unfold.
Your fragrance sweet, such
grace entwined, to gaze upon
you, our God we find...
O, gentle raindrop so evenly spread
as precious jewels upon your head...
Such beauty is held for all to see, if we
would remove our shoes to simply Be!

Hush little heart our Lord is sleeping:

Hush down O Brother wind, please know our Lord is sleeping...Let Him rest on into the night...
Hush down O Sister water, look see our Lord is sleeping, within our little boat
please let Him be! Gentle heart, O precious Lord, sleep on into this night, no fear will make us wake You, as we plough this treacherous sea...We have within our little hearts' our Lord and He is sleeping, no harm can come to us, as we put all our trust to Thee.

Gentle heart of Jesus, into Your arms enfold:

I AM the good Shepard that leads you little flock carries you gently to My breast and securely in My arms.
I AM with you little flock, your gently ever resting, within the palm of My hand, always before My blessed sight..
I AM with you little flock ,when the lour of others guide you and in your trust You stray from my faithful side... I will hear you little flock, when those that so happily led you... no more are there to want you, I will hear your bleeting cry.
I AM with you little flock, to guide you through My whispers, through My whistle you will know me, deep with in your precious heart.
Fear not O little flock, the wrong pastures you have trodden, they were never meant for one so precious in My sight...
Rest on O little flock, within My arms your sleeping, My sweet caressing gaze will always be your stay.

"I AM Spirit...I AM Truth"

Nobody can come to Me, unless first My Heavenly Father draws him...
God is not remote, He has such a needful, longing heart for each and everyone of us...Always waiting for us to open wide our searching hearts to Him. We have great need of You Heavenly Father. You have planted deep, deep inside an unquenchable thirst, within each and every heart...But Your thirst is greater still!
Good God, You are all gentleness,all loving,all compassion, all forgiving...
O gentle, gentle hand of our Good God, You are Spirit,You are Truth.
Draw us, ever draw us...we have the greatest need to be drawn.
We have the greatest need to be all You so Will us to become.
Our rest is in You... only there can our hearts find that so desired
place of peace. Nothing, nothing can give us that, unless we rest in You.
No matter the beauty of another heart, no matter what privaledges we are afforded, please draw us, let Your Holy Spirit envelope us, drawing ever drawing us...We shall run!

Prayer of king David:

"Who am I Lord, and what is my house, that You have led me as far as this?
Yet in Your sight, Lord, this is still not far enough"...
(King Davids prayer).

Nothing now between the eyes of the soul and the face of God:

Nothing in this life is enough, unless it has its centre in You Lord...
We need to see Your visable footprint within it all.
Draw us ever deeper into your unfathonable love and as You do, we are confident others too will be drawn as we are drawn and We shall run! Help us to exchange the things of this time for that of eternity without ever counting its cost...
Mould our hearts into living temples of Your love.
Remove all that now seperates us from You. Help us to give away all that will draw others to You. We ask nothing save, to do Your most Holy will on earth as it is done in Heaven. The sinfulness we have been born into, can never be a hindrance to coming to You because You gave too much for that to be so! We are truly trying to be all You know we can become.
Let us run after YOU...
You alone are our all in all.

Restouring the beautiful dream to its first fervour:

"Draw me after You, Heavenly Spouse, we shall run in the fragrance of your perfumes! I shall run and not grow weary until you bring me into the wine cellar, until your left hand is under my head and Your right arm blissfully embraces me;
and You kiss me with the most blissful kiss of Your mouth".
(From the 4th letter of St Clare to Blessed Agnes of Prague).

The reflection of a Saint:

"Behold how the priest during Holy Mass with such love, touches Jesus
in the Host...Do the same when you go to the dying".
It is perfectly possible to experience Jesus in the suffering
in those dying, because He is there to be found.

Let the eyes see from the heart, the ears hear from the heart,let
the hands give from the heart, the feet walk in the way of the
heart because from our hearts, does Jesus make His home!

What a wonderful life!

Lord give me an open heart to find You everywhere...
To glimpse the heavens enfolded in a bud...
Experience eternity in the smallest act of love.

Lord:

Lord, when I think that I have given all that I have to give and realize in a moment's honesty that it is I who am the recipient, deliver me from myself...
Lord, when I have convinced myself that I am poor and realize in a moment's honesty that I am rich in pride and envy,deliver me from myself...
Lord, when the Kingdom of Heaven merges deceptively with the kingdom of this world,Let nothing satisfy me but God.

He made Himself poor that we would give to Him:

Quite recently I was asked to help someone I could do little for...
This person was losing their battle for life. For some reason this person has touched this heart in a very profound way. We are well used to caring for the
dying but the question we have been left with, we have to do something more...
Why is it Lord that deep within us what we do never feels enough?
In the meditations of Mother Teresa we recently read, "Jesus gave
Himself totally,but for Him that would never be enough...He wanted to give
something more- to give us the chance to give to Him.
So He made Himself the needy one, so we could give to Him"...
Sometimes we struggle to know how we can indeed give in situations
where there appears no apparent way to help, especially where all
hope has gone...It came to this heart
Prayer, that is the most precious, strongest gift of love we
have for another. It may appear at first to be too small, too silent
too simple a gift but in this heart we have a very quiet gentle but
all consuming confidence that this is the greatest gift we can give
for another especially when there seems no apparent hope.

In the silence of a beating heart:

"Teach us that even as the wonder of the stars in Heaven only reveals itself in the silence of the night, so the wonder of God reveals itself in the silence of the soul"...
(Bhagavad Gita).

Do you believe I can do this?

There is a Holy darkness which enabless us to become like the little children we are asked to become in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
It is the blind man who is prepared to place himself completely in the hands of God, to be led like a littlechild.In order to raise our level of service, our love to God...
He plunges us into darkness. There we can learn to rely on God alone and so in time become effective channels for a light which comes, not from us but from God Himself.
(Meditations of Mother Teresa).

Mother of the WORD:

Daughter of the Father, Mother of the WORD, Spouse of the Holy Spirit
We your children adore You, Queen of Heaven,of all the angels and saints
of our little hearts too...
You endured the passion in full... Nothing was held back from You...All your Son endured, You endured. Be with us as we walk in the WORD,live for the WORD
Our lives are lived no longer for ourselves but Jesus alone... Blessed Mother
help us, protect us, petition for us...You alone are our hope as we journey
on lifes way.

Give it all you have and then some more:

We do not wish to be different:

We do not wish to be different but God's choice has made that so...
If we deny it, we deny God and for as long as we live, we have vowed to never turn away again, no matter the cost.

The Immaculate heart of our Blessed Mother:

Prostrate at thy feet, O great Queen of Heaven, we venerate thee we confess that thou art the Daughter of the Father, the Mother of the Divine WORD, the Spouse of the Holy Ghost.
Thou art the store- keeper and the almoner of the Divine Mercies...For this reason,
we call the Mother of Divine Compassion. Behold us here in affliction and anguish.
Deign to show us how truly thou lovest us...
We beg thee to ask the Holy Trinity most fervently to grant us the grace ever to conquer the devil and the world and our evil passions; the efficacious grace that sanctifies the just, converts sinners, destroys heresies, enlightens infidels and brings all men to the true Faith.
Obtain for us this great gift that all the world may form but one people only, and one Church.

Kindness, Justice, Integrity are what pleases Me:

A prayer of Jeremiah:
"Well you know, Lord,
the course of man is not in his control,
nor is it in man's power as he goes on his way
to guide his steps.
Correct us, Lord, gently"...

Do not think circumcision of the flesh is enough for the Lord...
It is circumcision of the heart that is called for.
Taking out the heart of stone and renewing it with flesh hearts...