Day 9 Help Us Bear All Suffering
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Help us bear all suffering.
Day 10 Fill Us With Hope
‘ When we ask for comfort, He will give it….’
Our need to remain close to God is absolute in a chaotic, uncertain world. The world throws up confusion, busyness, incessant demands, complexity and stress. Yet if we take time to pray and allow God's love to flood our being, if we call out to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit; the Heart of Love, we will surely be heard and answered. Our need for love is great. There are many hurts, some small, some huge and potentially overwhelming that wound us at soul level. All need comfort and healing. All need a path of love to keep us safe. When we hurt, we lose focus and awareness. The pain can feel as if it will annihilate us. It can be all consuming. This then is when we truly need comfort, where love can touch us and we can find that love is greater than any pain, even though it must be endured.
God knows our need. He knows all that we suffer, intimately. When we ask for comfort, He will give it, of this we can be certain, though it may not come in expected ways, for God's gifts are vast and His ways are bigger than any we can imagine. His sight all seeing, His mind all knowing and we may not always know how we can be comforted, yet we trust that if we place ourselves in the Heart of Love, the comfort we receive will be mighty!
‘God will always help you.….’
True suffering is unrelievable. If there are choices that can save you, look for them and make them, God will always help you. But if not, then throw yourself on God's mercy and His love, immerse yourself in the Heart of Love and there place your awareness, that the suffering you are forced to endure, which may be or become totally intolerable, unbearable, tormenting, tortuous, deeply disturbing, not destroy or despair you. Here you find God's grace, touching you in the formless void of inexpressible agony. For only One who has suffered depths of indescribable, annihilating torment, yet been sustained by love and remained loving still in His heart, can reach out to you and touch you and bless you in that moment that you most need it, whether through the caring of others or through the grain of hope that remains or is found in the depths of emptiness, whether the means to keep going on, in intractable pain, is miraculously present, whether kindness unexpected blesses your life and helps bring much needed comfort and sense of communion, not desperate isolation. This then is what we pray for, to be given strength in utter weakness, to receive light in the darkness of moments, to accept hope in the desert of despair, to be touched with love in the secret, hidden depths within us, that are in desperate need for comfort, to feel known, seen, heard, cared for in Spirit and in life, to receive multi-layered healing, to find new awareness, possible paths to move forward, to break stuckness, limitation, lostness and feel found in the centre of your being, by God Himself and all who know Him, to cope and still endure the unendurable, for love lives with us. Amen
When pain is indescribable: a prayer
When pain is indescribable Lord, Hold me
When agony burns so deep there are no words left to describe it,
Console me
When endless pain is in every part of my being,
Be with me in power
Hold my hand and Help me Lord.
Give me the strength I need to bear the unbearable.
Give me hope that it will truly diminish.
Give me trust in your power, to banish it.
Give me faith that it will lessen.
Give me confidence that you are with me through every moment.
Give me love in my whole being, to heal me.
For all things are possible with you Lord.
Give me the peace beyond all suffering, to help me cope,
May the suffering lift and leave me now.
Amen
A prayer of thanks and praise
For all the people who have prayed for me
I give thanks and praise
For every tendril of prayer that has ever wrapped around me,
I give thanks and praise
For every moment’s pain endured and survived
I give thanks and praise
For every difficult struggle I have coped with
I give thanks praise
For every fear banished and diminished,
I give thanks and praise.
For every act of kindness that has blessed me,
May a blessing be given and received in return.
To those who have helped me bear the unbearable,
Somehow keeping hope alive,
even if only a tiny flicker of a spark,
I give thanks and praise forever more,
Amen
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Fill us with hope.
‘ …a saving grace from all three, Father, Son and Holy Spirit…’
How much we need hope. A life without hope is a desperate, oppressive place to be, with little meaning or direction. When things go well, hope flies high, yet when things go badly, hope can disappear amongst the jangling discordant chaos that ensues. This then is the time to seek hope, to hold on to any seed of goodness within or without you that might bless and alter the dismal, bleak and crushing suffering that can destroy it or cover it over so deep it seems lost.
This then, is where we need God's aid - for when we can find no hope of our own volition and despair looms too large to block out, here then the Lord can save us by filling us with His hope. Hope that brings light, truth, strength, wisdom, comfort, hope that is all powerful, a saving grace from all three, Father, Son and Holy Spirit bringing not only hope but proactive hope carried on the wings of the Spirit to bring change to the most desperate of moments for hope is Love in action, come to unite us with all that is good.
May it pour out upon us and renew and strengthen us. Amen
Day One
Every word of the Litany of the Heart of Love has been given by God. Every phrase is sacred and holy. It can be prayed as one prayer, broken down into small individual prayers, used to gain deeper knowledge of the love and power of theTrinity or used as a crucible in which to hold a person and find the most powerful of responses.
We shall post a Contemplation for each of the phrases of the Litany in the coming days.
Let us pray the Litany:
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Surround us with Your love.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Pour out Your grace upon us.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Lead us to Mercy.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Bless our lives in unimagined ways.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Teach us the Word of God.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Guide us in the way of love.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Comfort us in our need.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Help us bear all suffering.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Fill us with hope
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Open our hearts with compassion
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Bring us to life.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Heal us now
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Bless us with miracles.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Be with us as we pray
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
.......individual prayer request..........
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Surround us with Your love. Amen
Now, if you feel drawn to, you can use the prayer for more deeper contemplation.
Day Two
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Surround us with Your Love
(Audio by Linda : What does “Surround us with your Love mean”?)
‘ You, held in the awesome totality of the love of the Trinity.’
What does it mean to be surrounded with the love of the Trinity? Take a moment to be still and enter into your inner awareness of God. Focus your perception outside of yourself and reach out to feel the love of the Trinity. This is Triune love. There is no greater. This is all the tender, loving, open love of the Father. This is all the compassionate, aware, sensitive, merciful love of the Son, this is all the powerful, proactive, engaging love of the Spirit, all working in a unity to embrace and hold you. You who might feel small, insignificant, helpless even hopeless sometimes. You, held in the awesome totality of the love of the Trinity.
May you feel the touch of this Love today and may you feel the blessing, the comfort, the strength, the hope of this love in your life, transfiguring the moment, transforming your life, right now. Amen
Day Three
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Pour out Your Grace upon us
(A Contemplation upon the gentleness of Grace by Greg)
There is no space not touched by Grace.’
We lift up our hearts and ask for the Grace of the Mighty Trinity to pour out upon us. What is this Grace? Why it is pure love in action, touching, healing, guiding, blessing, inspiring, opening up new possibility, love in action, always available, freely given, generous and abundant, the ever flowing Heart of Love pours out grace upon the whole world and every moment, every millisecond within it. There is no space not touched by Grace. There is nothing impossible, through Grace. There is joy in our hearts, with Grace. It is Grace that lifts us and carries us, that restores and renews us. It is Grace that brings miracles, flowing from the Heart of Love. It is Grace that enables us to do more than we dreamed possible. It is Grace that opens up our lives and brings new hope to old feelings, stuck moments, impossible blockages in our path. For it is Wisdom from the Spirit, Light from the Son, Blessing from the Father, for each and everyone and so much more that cannot be described.
The whole world then, can be touched by this Grace and changed forever. Amen
Day Four
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Pour out Your Grace upon us
(Audio by Linda : What Is Mercy?)
May Mercy always find a pathway to my heart.
This is a very personal, beautiful prayer that has great meaning and tenderness for me. It means that however unable I feel to forgive someone, then I turn to God’s Mercy to lift me-higher, to find new vision and understanding and touch my heart with its truth. Amen.
God’s Mercy is absolute and is unconditional. Forgiveness, for me, is a many-layered process.
A Prayer by Greg
In Mercy
In Mercy we will live
Forever
And this flickering life
To sing
With this voice
To dance
With this body
To touch
With these hands
To laugh
With these eyes
And to free
With this heart.
Mercy
Love is the power that Mercy brings. Ultimately Mercy is Divine love, unchanging as it ever was, ever is and ever shall be. It holds us all, sustains all, breathes through all, enlightens all. It is the morning and the night, the light in every person, the Holy Trinity. Mercy is all.
Mercy brings truth into any situation; above all it does not judge. In this way it affects sin and unforgiveness by dispelling it. Mercy is peace, the peace not of the world, ever flowing from the Heart of Love, the Mighty, Awesome, Holy Trinity.
When forgiveness may not feel possible, Mercy can be invoked, which eases all unforgiveness and touches all with Love and Healing. Thus all may be well, despite our own personal struggles and peace may unexpectedly, still be found.
This is the meaning of Mercy; to be merciful is to be free.
Transfiguration is being touched by the Light of Life, who is Mercy incarnate and eternal. It is where we meet Mercy in absolute purity, where we are touched by Mercy and all illusion drops away, so that truth is revealed in all its splendour and we find that love is real, alive and awesome in nature.
When, in all honesty, it does not feel possible to forgive a person right now, for all the hurt and ignorance caused by them, it is still possible to chose Mercy.
The hope may still be eventually, to forgive; yet in the meantime choose Mercy.
Day Five
Contemplation of the Litany of the Heart of Love: Bless our lives in unimagined ways.
(Audio by Linda: “What is a Blessing?”)
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Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Bless our lives in unimagined ways.
‘ let us not limit our requests for blessings…’
What is a blessing if not an unimagined gift, something new, vibrant, alive, special, bringing hope, comfort, joy, strength: a renewing of the day by means of an unexpected moment of goodness that can lift and transfigure your life, change perception, bring new clarity, help to see a different view, give strength of purpose, shine light in a dark tunnel, receive an unexpected present, accept a kind word rightly timed, be touched by a miracle of healing, find a saving from distress, gain help in the bearing of intractable pain.
A blessing has myriad forms and is perfect for the receiver, each individual has their own special need and we can trust that any blessing given by God will be just right for that person, in that moment, in that way. For such is the intimacy of relationship with God and such the span of love and awareness of the Holy Three, that each blessing will be perfect for the one in need.
Therefore let us not limit our requests for blessings for ourselves or others, but rely on the absolute Knowledge of the Heart of Love to bless us again and again, in perfect and absolute abundance! Amen
Day 6
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Teach us the Word of God.
‘ its power and beauty manifest in the world for all time. ’
The Word of God is whole and complete. It needs but be spoken once and its power and beauty manifest in the world for all time. When we tap in to the power of the awesome Word of God, we are totally transformed, for nothing can be quite as it was before. That Word which comes from True knowledge, it is within you and burns in our hearts and our memories and keeps us safe, even if we seem to forget, yet still it remains, indestructible and all powerful, bringing healing and hope even to that which seems broken and unmendable. For it is the force of Life itself returning to the Father; the interrelationship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all one and unbreakable interacting together as the all powerful force of Love, for evermore.
Word of God
You can tell when a word is of God for it fills your heart with joy, purity, truth, beauty. It uplifts, strengthens, imparts wisdom and brings new awareness. It feels and tastes good to the spirit. It is like the perfect note of a bell echoing out for all time. It cannot be unrung. It cannot be unspoken. Its direction is straight.
Jesus Christ is the Word of God. He is whole, complete, beautiful, true. To hear Him is to know Him. To find Him is to be blessed with unchanging Love forevermore. Amen
Day 7
Contemplation on the Litany of the Heart of Love: Guide us in the way of Love
“My Spiritual Journey” by Greg
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Guide us in the Way of Love.
‘ how necessary it is to be true to a path of love ‘
Oh how much we need such guidance! To remain loving, to truly act from love, to be love in a broken world, to feel loved and flow with love ourselves, how beautiful this sounds, how determined to follow, how necessary it is to be true to a path of love, to be a true Christian and yet how hard in practice to sustain at times.
We must seek congruence within and without ourselves in all our thoughts, actions, deeds, motivations. Easy perhaps in brighter moments, the true challenge comes when we are sorely tested, mistreated, maligned, abused, harmed by others, let down and abandoned by friends and betrayed by our enemies. Let us see that this is truly when the loving heart needs most to be aligned with the Heart of Love, that it might not break and be irreparably damaged. This is when we must turn our faces to the cross and seek Christ to come to our aid and show us how to live truly from love. This is when we must call on the Spirit for Wisdom and Discernment, for the Power to overcome evil and to not follow a path away from love, based on our hurting, broken selves. This is when we must ask the Father to tenderly hold us and keep us safe, even through death that will bring us through to new life in God. For we seek not to condemn, not to cruelly punish, not to hurt back, if we truly love and yet we also ask for Justice, Truth : bringing responsibility and accountability to our persecutors and harmers, whether deliberate or through ignorance.
But we also ask that all painful, hurtful, harmful situations be immersed in love and that we are kept safe ultimately and remain loving in the core of our being, nurtured and safe guarded by the Heart of Love, that we do not fall from grace and find ourselves lost to goodness.
And so we cling on to God and pray with absolute desire, to be led always towards love and to be continually guided to live a life that is fundamentally unconditionally loving, not just a shallow, conditional, shadow of what is possible with God in our hearts and a true desire to love and serve. Amen
Day 8 : Comfort us in our need
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Comfort us in our need.
I miss
I miss the ease of tender loving
Long gone
I miss the simple way of things
Holding hands with my beloved
Walking together
Going out for a meal
Or even just a coffee
Or a beer.
I miss so many things
That others take for granted,
Don’t even notice
In the busyness of their lives.
And yet
And yet, my love
You are still with me
Standing firm
By my side
Fighting for a better life
And love is not lost
Only strengthened
By the incessant illness
That seeks always
To separate
And destroy.
8.7.10
This poem was written 12 years ago. It is still as relevant today. So many things are lost, have been lost seemingly forever, at least forever since the illness first banished me from normality and trapped us in an invisible underworld where few venture to look. And that was over a quarter of a century ago. It was a long enough time back in 2010, it is so much longer now and the years in between have been harrowing. Yet still we love. Still we have compassion. Still we hold onto hope.
Day 11 Open Our Hearts with Compassion
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Open our hearts with compassion
‘It is the deepest form of love.’
Compassion is a gift. It comes from the Trinity infilling us with wisdom and sensitive awareness to others. It is the deepest most tender kindness. It touches at soul level engendering a soul response. It is the deepest form of love. It is not focussed on self, nor on our own circumstances, but comes from our highest self. It is all goodness, kindness, gentle knowing of the other and their need for love, assistance, connection, validation and healing.
It is not based on surface appearance or on seemingly discordant interaction, but is about true intimacy, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, recognition. It flows from God to us and through His Mercy and tender healing, His light within us, flows out to touch the world and those in need with genuine goodness from the heart and soul.
Our hearts are broken open by our own suffering and our own need. May that experience become knowledge and that knowledge become laced with compassion for ourselves and each other. Amen
When pain is indescribable: a prayer
When pain is indescribable Lord,
Hold me
When agony burns so deep there are no words left to describe it,
Console me
When endless pain is in every part of my being,
Be with me in power
Hold my hand and Help me Lord.
Give me the strength I need to bear the unbearable.
Give me hope that it will truly diminish.
Give me trust in your power, to banish it.
Give me faith that it will lessen.
Give me confidence that you are with me through every moment.
Give me love in my whole being, to heal me.
For all things are possible with you Lord.
Give me the peace beyond all suffering, to help me cope,
May the suffering lift and leave me now.
Amen
Day 12 Bring us to Life
Oh Heart of Love, Oh Mighty Trinity
Bring us to life.
‘ He brings us hope of life eternal ’
Love brings us to life. Therefore to live in the Mighty Trinity is to become fully alive as we immerse ourselves in the total love of God. We are refreshed, strengthened, guided, renewed, blessed, enlivened by the dynamic love in action, three in one, of the Trinity.
Each one; Father, Son, Holy Spirit, brings a different aspect of love to blossom in our lives. So that we cannot but be brought to life, touched and held in the most precious love that God brings. For God is love. And love is God and that love burns at the centre of life and flows forever from the Heart of Love, to bring new life, light, love to the whole world. And each and every one of us, whether that life is here on Earth or ultimately with God in Heaven. He brings us hope of life eternal, held in the power of the Mighty Trinity, so that we may find our way to love for ever more. Amen
Day 13 Heal us now
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Heal us now
‘ His name is power.’
God heals. Of this we can be certain. His name is power. His word is made flesh and dwelled among us that we could find healing, that ultimately we would find eternal life, which must surely be the most incredible healing of all that we can experience. So as we pray, let us call upon the Trinity, let us pray to the Father, let us pray in the name of Jesus Christ, let us call upon the awesome power of the Holy Spirit to come to our aid, especially when we are in great need, as well as any difficult, wounded, hurting, pain filled circumstance that we find ourselves in and may we pray in absolute confidence, trust and faith that we will be healed, now! Amen
A blessing for the breath of life
Today I bless the sky
In all its wonder and beauty
The clouds the rain the snow the hail
I bless the air we take for granted
Each molecule of Oxygen that enables us to breathe
Each molecule of Carbon Dioxide that enables plants to grow
I bless each in breath, may it bring us strength and energy
I bless each out breath, may it bring us peace and healing
I bless the breath that brings life to all
I bless the air, may it be clean and safe
I bless the planet may it survive and prosper
I bless all life
May it rejoice in its being
May all be restored to right balance and harmony
We love you very much, a new video by Greg
A wonderful, fun video drawn, created and played by Greg, we hope you feel uplifted by it. It reminds us of the love of God everywhere and blessings us with all of creation, especially the daffodils, hyacinths and Crocuses.
Day 14 Bless us with Miracles
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Bless us with miracles.
‘ He has no limit.’
All things are possible to God. He has no limit. Let us remember this when we pray. Let us know in our hearts that miracles flow from the Trinity. That they are very real and very possible. That when we ask, let us ask mightily in confidence that we will be heard and that God will answer mightily. Let us also pray humbly that we know it is His power working in us that will save us. Let us pray silently when words will not come to our lips, let us pray in stillness when words will not come to our minds, let us pray in tears, in actions, in tenderness, in all that we are, that we might receive this incredible blessing. And when we can no longer feel that we can pray ourselves, let others pray for us, in hope and faith and when we are all spent, let the Spirit Himself carry our prayers of the heart, of the soul ,of our most desperate need, to the Father. And even more, let Him there pray for us, that we might know the intimate connectedness of the One in Three and may we receive the miracle that we need. For The Trinity are one and they are the utter totality of love, within and beyond time and space and they hold us close and immerse us in that love. Therefore we need never be fearful or hopeless again. Only turn our eyes inwards and reach our hearts upwards, that miracles might pour out upon us. Amen
A Blessing for waiting
For all the moments I have to wait for anything at all
may they bless me
For all the people I cannot see because I am having to endlessly wait
may they bless me
For all the moments I cannot do anything
may they bless me
For every non-event in my life may I see the wonder of the moment instead
may it bless me
For every inaction I endure may there be a blessing in disguise
may it bless me
For every moment’s pain may I feel grace in action upon me
may it bless me
For all moments happy or intolerable may they still bless me
Day 15 Be With Us as We Pray
Palm Sunday: these words shine with truth in our hearts as we contemplate Palm Sunday and especially hold all in need up to the Lord in prayer on this special Holy Day:
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Be with us as we pray
‘ all our prayers are heard and received……’
Let our prayers not be just words to an empty sky, rather may we come to feel your living energy Lord, ever present and absolutely here with us and know that all our prayers are heard and received, that prayer is really an intimate dance of love, where we enter into a mystery of light that immerses us in the TRUTH of the everliving GOD, who loves us and cares for us always and is absolutely with us as we pray.
Let us see, feel and know this Lord. Let our hearts be filled with radiance as we pray, that we too might be transfigured and feel the wonder of love, filling us and changing us as love flows through us, that our prayer is no longer our own, but part of the flow of love in the whole universe, carried by the Heart of Love to bless the world. Amen
Let us pray for hidden invisible suffering
Let us pray today especially for all those who suffer in hidden, secret ways that are not obvious or noticed. Let us pray that they are seem, recognised, heard, helped, blessed; that the Lord will fill them with the peace and strength to get through ever dire moment.
Here is a poem I wrote to express the hidden differences I experience.
I choose to survive
While you are getting up and going to work
Me, I am in agony and paralysed.
While you are driving around in your car,
Me, I am struggling to get my toes to move.
While you are wondering which delicious coffee and pastry to try next,
Me, I am struggling to figure what is safe to eat on my sugar free, dairy free, gluten free, wheat free, hydrolysed fat free, alcohol free diet.
While you are enjoying a pint or a glass of wine or a gin and tonic or an infinite number of cocktails,
Me, I am struggling to work out if it is safe to drink tap water or bottled water.
While you are going shopping for clothes and enjoying the choice of trying on the latest fashion,
Me, I am struggling to find any clothes I can wear at all that will not hurt me.
While you are splashing on your perfume and enjoying the delights of skin and hair products,
Me, I am struggling to find a soap I can use just to wash with at all.
While you are laughing, chatting, enjoying the ordinary social banter of life,
Me, I am tormented and deteriorated to a spasming jelly by any voice at all that floats across my space, living in total isolation from contact with ordinary people.
While you are going to meetings, spouting opinions, listening to information,
Me, I am unable to move or think or connect in anyway with normality.
While you are relaxing, having fun, enjoying a holiday or a weekend break,
Me, I am in agony, unable to go anywhere or do anything or have a break from the sheer physical slog of coping with a body in so much pain that it cannot be touched, rest or get comfortable.
While you are enjoying all the wonderful myriad social family occasions that come along,
Me, I am the empty gap no longer laid at the table.
While you are unwinding reading a newspaper or the latest novel,
Me, I am staring into space, trying to sit upright and avoid becoming paralysed, unable to focus with fuzzy eyes and fogged blank mind.
While you, with your health and your options and your opportunities are wondering what to do and feeling sorry for yourself,
Me, I have no choices, every connection to normality broken, unable to choose anything except despair or survive.
You have a wealth of opportunity every day, just being well,
Me, I choose to survive, but it gets harder every day.
Comment:
Just trying to highlight the difference in our lives and the choices most people have but may be unaware how lucky they are.
Day 16 individual prayer request
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Surround us with Your love.
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
.......individual prayer request..........
…..let another minister to your need. ’
Praying for another is a sacred gift. It lifts both you and the person you pray for closer in the Heart of Love. It is indeed a wonderful thing to pray for another, for both are blessed by the radiance of light which touches, heals, comforts, strengthens, renews, brings hope out of despair.
Sometimes we cannot pray for ourselves. Then, graciously accept the gift of prayer from another. Sometimes we do not know what to ask for or we simply have run out of what to say. Then, let another minister to your need. Sometimes it is enough to pray once with absolute certainty and trust. Other times repeated prayer can help to remind us of God's presence with us and His love for us and help us to focus above the situation we find ourselves in.
Of this you can be certain, when you are held in prayer, energy shifts higher, there is hope of new possibility, there is comfort, there is blessing, there is love. Answered prayer does not always take the shape we ask for or necessarily thought of, for God has a higher perspective. He sees clearly. He knows truly. He is all wisdom and all mercy. He is absolute Love.
And let us remember and trust, that with love can come miracles. Amen
Day 17 Surround us
Oh Heart of Love, oh Mighty Trinity
Surround us with Your love. Amen
‘For God is ever present and His love flows in all abundance.’
How can we not be surrounded by His love? For God is ever present and His love flows in all abundance. As you pray and enter more fully into awareness of the Heart of Love, so you can come to this profound revelation. Yet in times of difficulty and stress, pain, discomfort, overwhelming problems, grief, fear, we can so easily forget it and feel isolated, alone, desolate and hopeless.
It is then of the utmost importance to look with inner eyes and see God with us. It is then of the utmost need to look up and see His face before you. It is then that it is safe to cry out Lord heal me, Lord help me, Lord protect me, Lord save me. Lord surround me with your love. Amen
Closer
As we come to the end of Lent, for some it will be a deeper journeying through Holy Week to reflect upon the Passion and the Cross and its meaning.
Let us not forget all those who live in that place permanently though or long term, in terms of their deepest suffering and existence, those who are pinioned daily on the cross with Christ and need His greatest solace and understanding.
Let us hold them all before God and ask for healing and Mercy to touch their lives. Let us ask for an ever deepening wisdom of the Knowledge and Love of God and a closer walk with God-with-us always. Amen