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Daily Devotional Based On The Spiritual Classic-He And I

Showing me the decoration on the altar (Gabrielle Bossis). Yes, you gave Me all that, but it would be nothing if you hadn’t given Me your heart at the same time (Jesus) (July 18, 1937).

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10).

³ Commit your work to the Lord,
    and your plans will be established. (Proverbs 16:3).

⁷ Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7).

O Lord, we may do many things for You, beautiful things in our Churches and parishes. And we like to believe it is always for You! Because You created us for the good works which You have prepared for us for all time that we would walk in them. And yet how many times are we just running around and spinning our wheels. Overcommitted between family, work, and volunteer work. we start out with good intentions but we can so easily forget who all this work is for. Do we ask You at every turn whether You even want us to do the things we signed up for- do they take time away from family or cause us to be irritable because we are so “busy”? O Lord please purify our intentions that whatever we do we ask You into it whether it is work we are obligated to do or work we volunteer to do and let us do it all with our whole hearts because God loves a cheerful giver!

A Daily Devotional Based On The Spiritual Classic He And I

Is it so difficult to talk with Me? Everything that interests you, every little detail of your life, tell me about it. I’ll listen with attention and joy. If you only knew…. Tell others to act with Me as they would with the intimate friend who knows all the secrets of their hearts.

¹¹ Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.  (Exodus 33:11).

³ Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known. (Jeremiah 33:3).

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; (John 10:27).

O Lord, how wonderful that You want to talk to us just like intimate friends. And yes, it can be difficult to talk to You. We forget that You are Our Father who loves us! If we only knew how You wait for us to come to You, how You stand at the door and knock! (Revelation 3). O Lord let us encourage others to tell You every detail of their lives and to do so ourselves because You wait for us with attention and joy! As St. Teresa of Avila has said prayer is just an intimate sharing between friends!

A Daily Devotional based on the Spiritual Classic He And I

Child, give yourself to Mary so that you may walk in Her ways. She is ready to help you because She knows God and His desires, and she knows you in your difficulties, almost all of which come from human pride. So give yourselves often from the depths of your heart. You must admit that with such a Father, Mother, and Brother, you are greatly helped along life’s way.

⁴⁸ for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.
For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; (Luke 1:48)

²⁷ As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!” (Luke 11:27).

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” (John 2:5).

O Lord today is the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. And You remind us to give ourselves to Mary and to walk in Her ways. That we have a Mother who knows us and loves us and wants to helps us in all of our difficulties so that we would be closer to You. A Mother that notices all the details as she did at the Wedding at Cana and reminds us always to do whatever You tell us. Thank You Lord for the gift of Your Mother- may we faithfully listen to Her lessons to pray from the heart every day and meditate on all of the acts of Redemption in the Most Holy Rosary!

Daily Devotional Based on the Spiritual Classic He and I

Speak in your own words; make up songs and prayer for Me as they come to your mind. Be My little companion; I am yours. I have never left you since you were born, and even before you ever came into the world, I thought of you with such tenderness. Thank your God for all that came from His heart for you, My little girl, and show your gratitude by asking Me to help you (July 16, 1942).

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (Colossians 3:16).

For thou didst form my inward parts,
    thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful.
    Wonderful are thy works! (Psalm 139:13-14).

¹⁷ pray constantly, ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.  (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18).

O Lord we thank You that You want to hear from us in our own words, and prayers, and even songs. Yes, You even want to hear us sing songs! You have known us from before we ever came into the world, we are fearfully and wonderfully made! And You want us to be Your companion now and into Eternity. You hold each one of in Your Heart, the Heart that was pierced for us! So let us show our gratitude always by depending on You because we are nothing and You are all yet You love each one of us individually and personally.

Daily Devotional Based on the Spiritual Classic He and I

Oneness. I come back to this thought again and again. Why do you live all alone when you can be in Me at every moment? In Me: that’s Heaven itself without the face-to-face vision and the rapture. Then practice this at-one-ment. Practice adoration and tenderness.- Act just as though you could see Me. It’s such a good practice for your faith. And faith brings hope and love. (July 10, 1943).

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1).

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20).

²⁰ Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;²¹ nor will they say, ‘Lo, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”^[ (Luke 17:20-21).

O Lord it can be so hard to believe. That You really want to be united to us. To be one with us just as You and the Father are one (John 10:30). That we are never alone- that the Kingdom of God is not some far away external thing but it is really within us. And that we can begin living Heaven already right here on Earth! All of this takes faith which is the conviction of things unseen. So let us practice adoration and tenderness in faith that You are always with us increasing our hope and our love!

A Devotional Based On The Spiritual Classic He And I

Begin afresh every day as through it were the very first. You are forever at the beginning. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and I know. Is there anything I don’t know? All the same, I like you to tell Me where you have failed and to explain yourself to Me. It brings out your confidence in Me. (July 10, 1941)

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,
    his mercies never come to an end;
²³ they are new every morning;
    great is thy faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23).

“Remember not the former things,
    nor consider the things of old.
¹⁹ Behold, I am doing a new thing;
    now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
    and rivers in the desert. (Isaiah 43:18-19)

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3).

O Lord I thank You that Your mercies are new every morning! That each day we can begin again- You tell us we are forever at the beginning. And it is so easy to just be stuck in the past including our regrets and our mistakes, and yes our sins, and just replay them again and again in our heads. But You tell us not to remember the former things but to see the new thing You are doing in our lives each day as You make a way for us in the wildernesses and deserts of our lives. You know everything about us and yet You want us to tell You all about it in our poverty knowing it is You who will lift us up each day as we sing praises each morning to You in complete confidence!