In last week’s newsletter, I mentioned that next week was
Good Friday. I was a week ahead of myself, please forgive
me if I messed up your calendar timing. It definitely is Good
Friday next Friday and I am back on track, I hope.
I was sent a beautiful message which I believe speaks to
what is happening next week. It was not purposefully sent
for that reason but I had such chills as I was watching and
listening to it, that I wanted to share it with you at this time.
It is a week for you to be aware of how much you are loved.
A parent will sacrifice his/her life for the child even those
who are not of “our” blood. That is how much that child is
loved and protected.
You are loved that much and also protected from harm. You
only can harm yourself if you allow the beautiful gift of Free Will
to choose your own destruction. You have that power, the
Power to Choose. Your Love can only be usurped by Hate,
hate for yourself or hate for another.
God cannot help you if you do not give Him/Her permission
to do so and neither can any of his helpers. When you ask for
help, you are giving permission to Higher Power to cross that
wall of Free Will, you have that choice.
I had an occasion to hate another person for which I was
totally justified in hating. It was an experience I will never forget
because I discovered that hate is like love, it spreads. I could not
stop myself from spreading that hate because it was just pouring out
of me, touching everyone, even touching the ones I loved.
That was when I made the choice, using my Free Will, to overcome
the hatred that was consuming me, just like fire consumes. It took
me a year of pounding the gates of heaven, of praying incessantly and
beseeching the Lord to remove it from my heart. My heart was so full
of hate that there was no room to even FEEL love.
I made that decision, the decision that I would rather love everyone than
hate one person. I would not give my perpetrator control over me by
empowering him with the energy of hate. I had to ASK and SURRENDER
my will in order for the Spirit to come and assist me with this. I was doing
a 5 night retreat at my church given by this diminutive priest and on the
fourth night, he began to glow, I mean glow. He changed into a huge person
who had white light surrounding him. I shook my head, I looked away, I did
everything to distract myself because I could not understand what was
happening. All of a sudden, I felt the hate leave and I was finally able
to FEEL Love again. It had been so long since I felt it, I was reduced to
crying and sobbing like I used to when I was a child.
I know from experience now what hate feels like and it consumes you.
I do not wish this feeling of hate on anyone including my worst enemy.
Unless you have felt this, it is impossible to explain. We use the word hate
so loosely, like hating a certain food or clothes, etc. That is not hate, it
is dislike and there is a world of difference between the two.
In this clip, I choose to substitute the word HATE for Satan because it is
that energy, that feeling. And….I know that only LOVE can conquer it
and you are so loved, that I wish you only to feel that energy.
Love and Light
Mary Grace
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