Works of love are works of peace and in that peace we find You:

Lord I know You are very close, I know with a sure heart I walk with You,
because I see You walking with me. Father like Peter, I have told you I would
die for You... and like Peter I am all so aware of the times I have denied You.
Like Peter I am ashamed, truly ashamed but You said saten would sift him
like wheat but to take heart because when he recovered he then in turn would go strengthen his brothers...Saten has to sifted me and are you now also asking the same of me to go strengthen my brothers?Father you never gave up on Peter despite his weaknesses...You  knew his heart as you too know mine. The spirit truly is strong but we are flesh, we are dust...But we are made  and called by Your hand alone. We know very little, but we are sure You are calling us, so very sure of that we are please help our understanding to see Your Wll. We love You with a single heart,you know us better than we know ourseolves You see our inner struggle to give birthto our spiritual being over our  limitation. Heavenly Father we know for sure Your hear every single petition even when we don't see any movement but how our hearts are thrilled when we do witness a change, when the road ahead is
changed to the road we are so easily drawn to in our weakness! Those times when You remove something we have no will to remove ourselves...it is a strange delight because you have witnessed  our prayer of asking to change our course even when we were quite willing to walk in that wrong direction. Thank you for being all that You are Father and that is God! never let us go...We are
little prisoners of love, a love that is so deep we do not understand but do know in our heart of heart we never want to ever be set another course from even if we were to ask xxx

All things bright and beautiful...

All these pictures' of  beautiful places and captured beauty of nature are moments in time when my heart has been taken straight to Heaven and I have been inspired to capture them with my little camera. Truly thanking our Heavenly Father for all His wonderful gifts of pure artistry for our total pleasure xxx

A lifetime of being carried by Our Jesus...He beheld me long before my birth... Cherished me without reserve...Many times I have stumbled in my feeble attempt to walk beside, even sometime to wander off! but never have You left me, or Your Mother, My Blessed Mother... You have waited for my will to pass, my pride to fall and now, only now can I truly say, I behold You, crossing a line I never realised was there to cross...Thank you Jesus, lover of my heart for waiting for me, allowing me to become all you have known I could become and will become...Yours!

Jesus use my life to placate Your thirst

The whole world is silently waiting

A Blessed Christmas morning to the whole world....Our Jesus is Born!!!!!!!!!!!!!

O Mary make me live in God, with God, for God

In your private space:

"Be careful not to parade your good deeds before men to attract their attention, because for Your Heavenly Father's heart you do them alone...
When I talk with You Father dear, in our private space, there shall I Be with You alone ...
We shall go over all those many things that are for Your knowing only and when all is said and done, I will try open my heart even more to love You as You so desire through the very words You alone have taught me...And should I get frustrated that my heart could open that bit more calm me Lord to understand my efforts are enough :-

                                                         Our Father

                         ..."Pater noster, qui es caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum;fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum supersubstantialem da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen..."

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light:

..."For a child is born to us, and a son given to us and the government is upon His shoulders, and His name shall be called:
Wonderful Counsellor,
God the Mighty,
The Father of the world to come,
the Prince of Peace"...
                                (Isaias Chap.9.v2-6)

Opening windows, closing doors'

Open windows and close doors', show me the way that I should go Lord
Open windows and close doors', leading only to Your heart...
Let me never ever go, in ways away from You O Lord,

Open windows, closing doors leading to Your heart.

Jesus Mother said to the servants, "Do whatever He tells you"...

Sweet Jesus the spirit is indeed willing but the flesh is weak...Give us the grace to always say yes to You, even more so when it goes beyond our will...You know our hearts more than we could know them, You see our struggles to pull ever closer, walk ever nearer to You...We too, in these struggles have some quite respite knowing our efforts are truly sweet honey to Your precious heart...Flood our hearts with the strength we shall need to always follow You! You alone sweet heart of Jesus.

Within Your Cathedral of creation we experince Your living gift of love, O Lord...The simplest flowers all look heaven ward, praising You for their creation, exuding their sweet perfume of delight for their very being. Their perfect beauty, in harmony with shafts of light majestically spliting through each and every tree...In one moment in time,the heart is elevated straight to heaven, at one with the whole of creation rising as a symphony to its Creator, its divine love. A living Sacrament of all that is good, all that is You... Uniting heaven with earth as You so willed all to BE!... In perfect harmony, one moment in time, reafirming Your very WORD... "I AM".

                               ..."For the first step towards discipline is a very earnest desire for her...Then comes from discipline, to love her. Love means the keeping of her laws, to observe these laws is the basis for incorruptability and incorruptibility makes one close to God...Thus the desire for wisdom leads up to a kingdom"...        (Wisdom 6.1-25)

 

 

"Love never imposes itself, it does not make one afraid...Love is revealed in a game of hide and seek which helps me simply live the ordinary in an extraorinary way"...
                                            (Francois Vayne)

The WORD is very near to you

..."For this law I enjoin on you today is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach.It is not in Heaven, so that you need to wonder," who will go up to Heaven for us and bring it down to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?" Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, "who will cross the seas, so that we may hear it and keep it?"
No, the WORD is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for your observance...
                                            (Deuteronomy 30.v.11-14)

I come to do Your purest Will without reserve

                
                         Heavenly Father give me the courage I will need

Pure joy

Totally fascinating...We just love them but they are so under rated!
I often remark to people when attending to their feet, what a privilege
it is to undertake such a duty and how much faithful service our feet
give to us over a lifetime.
They can walk in faith, they can walk in despair, they can be messengers of
love or hate but always faithfully they carry us on without little recognition.
Feet featured high in our Lords teaching and the importance of undertaking
the simplest/ humblest of tasks of tending to another feet, no matter one's station in life...
Feet play largely in culture and much respect is attributed to the covering or uncovered foot especially when standing on Holy ground. What a beautiful thing to stand or walk bare footed in the presence of our good God. Feet are placed at mans lowest point but if one were to kiss the feet of another, that simple act would truly penetrate Heaven.

Our Heavenly Father's heart suffers so much more than we could ever know over the loss of one little lamb:

Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus, Christus Imperat:

"In His body lives the fullness of Divinity
In Him you too have found your fulfilment
In the one who is the head of every
Sovereinty and Power"..............
Let all the earth cry out...
Jesus Christ is risen this day, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia

What more can I give:

What more can I give
What more can I give
I giveYou my whole heart Lord
What more can I give?
Every part of me, longs to be with Thee
What more can I give, what more can I give.

We are only truly alive, when we are God filled:

We are only fully alive when we are God filled...
I recently read this in the "Inner castle", (St Teresa of Avila).
"To be God filled, is to be fully human" what could that mean?
Well the only route I believe to getting God filled, is by putting in the time! "Come close to God and He shall come close to you".I love pondering Holy Scripture, so much so, that it truly is my greatest joy, its where I go to be with my Lord and He never fails to come be with me. However, in saying that, I am fully aware that I am not the first one to make this movement but sometimes our Jesus just allows me to think that to get me there! (t.u.Lord).
Its where I go to experience the very heart beat of our Heavenly Father and what a most tender loving heart has He!
Its where I go to feel the movement of the Holy Spirit, gently opening my understanding to a totally new way of seeing the Gospels, which by the way, can only truly be understood, if they are lived out! Yep, Holy Scripture is there for the taking, there for the living but remember first we must take off our shoes and put in some soul...Then put them back on and wear out some leather in living them. I can best describe this in the story of Mary & Martha...I always considered these souls to be two seperate beings, one sitting at the feet of our Lord, the other rushing around and complaining as she went about her sister. By this seperation of the two I see that I was making a judgement and therefore a preference...which indeed was wrong. If we stop to think about it, is this just not what we do within ourselves? Yes to sit at Jesus feet is indeed the greater part but also we are torn and sometimes a little hurt when we have to go attend to the practicalities of hosting such a special guest...Yes, we see it as taking us away from our Jesus but in truth He thirsts, He indeed hungers, He asks for a place to shelter and dear old Martha provides all these things as do we when we go out to meet Him in the needs of others. Yes, Jesus loved them both but we need always to return when our duty is done to sit at Jesus feet.To listen to His whipers, just to Be! or we shall become confused, perplexed, afraid and Jesus never wishes us to be any of these things, certainly never afraid.
Living Holy scripture is never an easy road, It not meant to be and that we are told also. I have found it can often be a very isolating journey but remember when you feel totally alone and you will, cos you will not be running with the masses, then just remember the gospels... Jesus never for one moment let his disciples out of His sight, O no, not even for one single second...Even when they were far out to sea in a most horrid storm, Yep! just like those ones we experience in our own lives...Thrown all over the place, not knowing what to do next...There, Jesus watched whilst in communion with His Father/our Father too, and quickly to His disciples He came to be right there cos He knew His disciples needed Him long before they did! No, don't ever think He is too far away to know what going on with you, because truly that is the old devil getting to you, trying to isolate you with his own reasoning! Just rebuke him in the name of Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he just hates that, and cannot stand!Our Jesus is always right there and even just loves to Be! Yep!, Jesus, our Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit too, you are so full up of Heaven, Wow! your flowing over. Its really true because Jesus tells us, right there in Holy Scripture too!.."Father,the love with which You have loved ME may be in them and so that I may be in them"...(John.17.v 26).
Wow, what a truly awesome life we have been given...Thank you Jesus we just love you to bits. Lovingly Me, your little princess xxx

Peace:

My soul, there is a country
Far beyond the stars,
Where stands a winged sentry
all skilful in the wars...
There above the noise and danger
Sweet peace sits crowned with smiles.
One born in a manger
Commands the beateous files,
He is thy gracious friend,
And (O my soul awaken!)
Did in pure love descend
To die here for thy sake.
If thou canst get but thither,
There grows the flower of Peace
The Rose that cannot wither,
Thy fortress and thy ease...
Leave then thy foolish ranges
For none can thee secure,
But one, who never changes,
Thy God, thy life, thy cure.
(Henry Vaughan)

Happy just to Be:

Lord, we are happy just to Be
Wherever that being is
As long as You are happy to be there too.

How much do you love Me?

I love You THIS MUCH LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With all of my heart, with all of my mind, with all of my soul...
From here to Eternity and beyond, if that were indeed possible.

Make sure you never refuse to listen:

..."My heart has been touched by Your Spirit, O Lord
Your Love is an all consuming fire...
We have been placed with the spirits of the saints
who have been made perfect...To Jesus who is mediator
bringing a new covenant, a blood of purification which
pleads more insistantly than Abel's
Make sure you never refuse to listen when He speaks"...
(Heb.12,22-29)

Why dear Lord:

Why is it Lord, I cannot capture You in all the places and faces one is told
we might expect to find You...
Why is it that within a beautiful ornate dwelling, there I cannot find You
Why is it within the noble and wise and all those who hold mighty stations,
I cannot see You...
Why is it that only in a little flower...in the tiny shaft of light,warming and illuming all that may be grand in the eyes of the world...The smallest creature, the humblist soul...How am I able to see You so clearly in all these things and only these things?
I trust You will not give me wealth as the world holds wealth, You will not surround my life with things that hide Your face from me, for no beautiful jewel could excites this heart, as You excite it Lord!
One thing do I desire, to dwell forever, in Your house O Lord, forever in Your house I ask to dwell,to strive my whole life long to make You known so too that others'may be drawn, as I have been drawn to dwell in Your house O Lord wherever Your dwelling may be!

Be still my soul; the Lord is at your side:

Be still my soul, the Lord is on your side
Bear patiently the cross of grief and pain
cleave to your God to order and provide
in every change He faithful will remain
Be still my soul your best, your Hevenly
Friend...Through ways leads to a joyful end.

Be still my soul, your God will undertake
To guide the future as He has the past
Your hope your confidence let nothing shake
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still my soul, the waves and wind still know
His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below.

Be still my soul, when dearest friends depart
And all is darkened in the vale of tears.
Then still you better know His love, His heart
Who comes to soothe your sorrow and your fears.
Be still my soul, your Jesus can repay
From His own fullness all He takes away.

Be still my soul, the hour is hasning on
When we shall be for ever with the Lord...
When disappointment, grief and fear are gone,
Sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored...
Be still my soul, when change and tears are past,
All safe and blessed we shall meet at last xxx

There is one thing I ask of the Lord:

"There is one thing I ask of the Lord,
For this I long...To live in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life...
To savour the sweetness of the Lord,
to behold His temple.......
Examine me Lord, try me, O test my
heart and mind...For Your love is
before my eyes and I will walk according
to Your Truth..."
psalms 26.v.4, Ps 25.v.2-3)

You are here:

Lord You are always here.
You more than any know my failings
But You more than any,love me despite
of them...that I know, You are here.
Sometimes You correct me, and in those times
you see just how sad my heart becomes.
Not because of Your correction but those failings
touch Your heart, wounding You...all that I most love.
When I can't see You, when I can't touch You,
the pain is immence but You are here.
One day there will be no more separations, no more tears...
Just peace because before me, all around me, above me,
below me...I will whisper, You will whisper...
You are here xxx

I see You in everything, everything holds You looking back:

I hear You in the wind
I experience You in the stillness
I see the sunrise and inside You elevate
my spirit to reach out to You, ever forward.
I feel You in the raindrops in the
gentle, tiny raindrops...Stretching out
to grasp one...Nothing but a raindrop,
yet it feeds and brings forth life.
I see You in the clouds, how this heart
would wish to be above the clouds but even
there You are not seen...You are closer still.
I see You in the rainbow, as it majestically
bows across the earth, how it makes my heart
leap with joy...I hear all the promises it contains
from Your WORD alone.
I experience You in the little flowers, their perfume
gives out a praise of thanksgiving for their being.
I see you in the majestic cedar, reaching tall to Heaven
I see You in all suffering...When a heart before me is
broken with suffering...Lord help me, how my heart touches
You in touching them!
Jesus no longer do I just see but in all things I see You looking back.

Lord, just what You give me:

Never a look beyond me
out of my little sphere, if I could fill another, God would not keep me here.
Only to take what He gives me, meek as a little child...
Questioning nought of that reason, joyful or reconciled.
Only to do what He bids me, patiently gladly today.
Taking no thought for the morrow, leaning on Him all the way.
Only to watch in the working, lest I should miss His smile,
only to still earth's voices, watching for His all the while.
Only to look at Him ever, only to sit at my Lords feet...
All that He sayeth to do it, there shall my life be complete.

I live, not I:

I live no longer to do my own will, but that Gods Will may be lived out through me without exception.

Blessed Mother may we, at the threshold of this New Year, find in You,
through You, the greatest courage to follow where we are called, humility to hear those inner whispers, bow low our fragile hearts, to give our yes as You once gave Your yes, to God, to our Heavenly Father. May we step forward, Truth being our one guide,love being our one responce, gentleness, ever guiding our narrow path. May we not be detured from the Way, the Word...Our total breath and reasoning for this life. You alone have made this journey before us, met with all we now meet...You alone know what is called for to walk upon such a Holy path set.
No matter how bewildering,no matter how difficult, how lonely...May it always be the path we are given courage to walk...We link to you Blessed Mother, through our
little rosary, beads of courage, beads of love, beads of devotion...Let us at the threshold of this new year, draw closer to Your breast, be comforted by Your heart beat, knowing You alone will protect us, petition for us, to Your Beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who we so wish to walk as one with to our Heavenly home,whom is truly set the face of our Good God, our Heavenly Father our one meaning for our life our total hope and joy.