Sunday Truth in Deep Love🤗❤️🙏
“Do not mistake littleness with lack of power. Littleness is detachment from possessions and is purity of heart. It is simpleness and the wisdom to avoid the influence of wickedness. Littleness is associated with the lack of wealth, prestige or success. Those who are litle joyfully surrender all their attachments to this world and persevere with endurance. It does not bother them not to have attachments because they are dependent on Me and are attached to Me.”(From Jesus to Gianna below)
Our call to “littleness” reminds me of the story of the Little Drummer Boy. He had nothing of material value, but did have gifts of time and talent, so He entertained the baby Jesus by playing a drum for Him. It’s a mythical story with no basis in historical fact, but still provides a sound analogy for our call to be “little.” I just hope the baby wasn’t trying to sleep. We do have to be careful about what we “force” upon others as we spread our “little” gifts to those in need.
I often find that the greatest gift we can give to another is simply the gift of our “ears.” I was recently blessed to have gotten to spend a couple of hours with an amazingly gifted listener, a person who’s natural inherent empathy truly allowed me to spill my guts so to speak. Most importantly, without being judged. She was truly a great teacher to me in that sense, and someone I want to be like.
The old adage goes something like “we don’t listen to understand, we listen to reply,” and I think most of us are very guilty of this, and being with this person for two hours showed me an example of a person with true interest in what I had to say as opposed to living in their own head waiting to respond. I could actually feel her excitement about hearing the details of what I had to say. That’s how any good counselor is, and as it’s been a while since I’ve been in a counseling session, it was a good refresher for me, especially as the person wasn’t being paid to counsel.
It’s something I’ve been trying to work on for years, because listening to some people can be exhausting and excruciating, and it’s often that I don’t “hear” a person speaking to me because I am dwelling on my response. It often happens even when the person is interesting, not necessarily because of our ego, but our desire to “help,” when it’s often that our “helping” need only be in the form of listening. Not in rendering our opinion about what they have to share.
Sometimes it’s the gift of a loving glance or a hug that can mean more to a person than anything we can give in the material sense. Just letting someone know that they’re loved. Or a cup of coffee and an hour of encouragement.
Jesus has so many “little” ways for us to serve and respond, and all we have to do is “be” little. To be humble enough to allow Him to work through us and in us in tiny little ways that ultimately bring His Kingdom to light, so that every soul we encounter can remain all in, and totally His. It’s all in the love we give. May He shine through every one of us.❤️🙏
(Reflection by Kenny Meek)
Message from Jesus to Gianna Talone Sullivan, I am your Jesus of Mercy Vol V
Lesson #18
In Assisi
September 11, 1995
MY LITTLE CHILDREN, MY SAINTS
My dear little one, I love My people. I love to be with them. I am the innocent, gentle Son of Man who was betrayed and condemned to death. I in My innocence carried sorrow in My heart for all the world. The wickedness of the world stood before Me and condemned Me. Yet the world thought it was I who stood in sentence before them. My acceptance of their sentence was so that they would not die. I accepted the sentence of death for them, for all people, that the body might die by the sword but the soul could live forever for all those who believed in Love. The foolish man is one who does not believe in God. For those who do not believe God exists will betray their very selves, and their own wickedness will condemn them. But for those who believe in My salvation through My victory in death will joyously celebrate and be with their gentle God. The wicked and righteous shall be slayed by their very own sword, but the innocent and meek of heart shall live for all eternity.
I shall stand by My people always even though many, one by one, have chosen and are choosing to walk away from Me. Those who desire to remain with Me, I in My infinite wisdom chastise now in order that they will reign with Me and share in My glory. I desire to teach them now and encourage them to be “little” children, little in all ways: actions, thoughts, deeds and speech; little through simplicity and humility of heart.
Do not mistake littleness with lack of power. Littleness is detachment from possessions and is purity of heart. It is simpleness and the wisdom to avoid the influence of wickedness. Littleness is associated with the lack of wealth, prestige or success. Those who are litle joyfully surrender all their attachments to this world and persevere with endurance. It does not bother them not to have attachments because they are dependent on Me and are attached to Me. Initially the surrender of their possessions may involve disheartening feelings along with temptations for the sweet entitements of the world; but as My little ones accept and renew daily their invitation to allow Me to love them, they master their feelings and find that even their feelings are attachments and obstacles to purity and humility of heart. They, with time and perseverance, become little children, pure and joyfully free, yet powerful and full of My heavenly treasures.
O’ little one, how I invite all people to share in My great glory as My saints. My saints were little in the world, yet powerful because they chose to master their feelings by surrendering any possession or attachments to the world which might have prevented them from listening to My will and responding. The less the world gave to them, the more they received from Me. I invite all My people to be My little children, My saints. I love all and call all to My Heart.
I wait to see who will answer and respond to My call from heaven above, for those who respond will be My little children, My saints.
Bless you, little one, and continue to pray for all people in the world and for peace and unity. AD DEUM.