Charlie Johnston.

Amen!

Safe in the Refuge of the Immaculate Heart!

 

Charlie,

I have never sensed a grandiose spirit in you, rather, I seen an attitude of concern for the little ones. Keep up the good work.

Glory to God in the highest!

 

I would like to add that Charlie's primary message, which is about how we are to live in this time, has really helped me to set my jaw like flint. ...and instead of being prone to panic, I find that I am more often in the spirit of joy,...going about spiritual and physical preparations, as well as the rigors of daily life, but finding it easier to stay in the moment. And when I'm in the moment, I don't miss as much. Whatever comes will come, and I pray that I will not panic, even if is my life that is demanded.
Thanks Charlie.

 

Just wondering what anyone thought of the last paragraph in Charlie's latest post?

"Though I dreaded the onset of the Storm for decades, now that it is here, I find a great jubilation mixed in with the struggles…for now I know it is the beginning of the Triumph. How lovely that the sequence which leads to the Triumph is seriously underway now."

 

I took it to be mean the hourglass has been turned upside down and Stan's time is running out and that while we have to go through the process now, when the sand runs out it means that the intercession of our Blessed Mother has come and God wins and we can begin to rebuild and live the way God intends for us to live.

Charlie is living out his prime directive to hearten the faithful and show us the light at the end of the tunnel into which we have now entered.

 

I suppose I'm wondering if the light is indeed the end of the tunnel or do we still have to get hit by a train (Storm), and then we'll see the end of the tunnel (Triumph)!

 

Oh we will be getting hit by planes, trains, and automobiles as well as the kitchen sink in this tunnel. But God stands at the end waiting for us if we faithfully walk through it with our eyes fixed on Him

 

For you discernment:
Back in Jan., 1995, I was given a vision of a long dark tunnel with a very bright light at the far end that looked like a Host. Jesus spoke to me saying that the darkness in the tunnel was the darkness of sin that surrounds us, but that He is the light at the end of the tunnel. He told me to focus my eyes on the light. Then He said, "This is my Sacred Heart which prepares a place for you to rest. Rest within My Heart as I rest within yours."
Let us all keep our eyes focused on the Light and not the darkness!
God bless you.

 

I'm also being called to focus on Jesus and the new era to come.

It might be like watching a wrecking ball coming down on a rat-infested fire-trap of a building. How foolish it would be to grieve over the destruction, and the details of it - "Look - a hole in the roof! Oh, no! The windows are all breaking! There goes the staircase!" Instead, the focus would be on the wonderful new structure that will take its' place.

"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven!"

 

Wonderful analogy kathy!!

 

Lynnfiat and KathyK,
my sisters!
The clarity of faith that you both exhibit feeds my soul. Thank God for both of you, and your posts.
Half of me shares your faith, and the other half trembles. I often feel that i am a battleground between good and...
Please keep me in your prayers.
Keep posting.
My love to you both.

 

Despondency exhausts courage and strength and renders us unable to do good. Abandon yourself in the Divine Volition like a little baby and you will feel a new strength, a new light arise. I will pray for you. Fiat!

 

Right back to you! I find myself praying several times a day in thanksgiving that He gives such marvelous comrades to me. My brothers and sisters on this forum are so dear to me, and teach me so much. We will likely never meet on this earth, but will know each other, and rejoice forever, on the other side. (Worst case scenario - we'll get to share a bench in purgatory! )

 

You will not panic but you be a signpost for all around you. People you know will flock to you for advice and help when the warnings come!!

 

Thank-you for the encouragement. I've been doing my best, even in the face of serious skepticism and doubt, to plant the seeds of awareness, of the times we are living in, into the hearts of all those blessed souls that are around me.... that small number of souls in my little sphere of life,... I try to proceed gently and with patience, but I have to admit there are times, when I get "in your face", but always my motives and intentions are for the salvation of their souls. I'm finding that it takes discipline to operate in the world, with souls oblivious to the coming storm. Do any others have this difficulty? I almost loath frivolous conversation, seeing it as more wasting of time, I'd rather cut to the chase and make a real connection with each individual soul that I speak with. Let's get on with it...Repent! Repent!

 

I'm with you, Greggo. Frivolous talk and foolish distractions drive me to distraction!

My husband says that his very next thought after he "saw the light", was "OK - who's next?" It's easy to get frustrated with the blindness of those around us. It helps to remind myself that I spent a great part of my life in blindness as well. And if the blind in my midst had received the graces I've been given, they would all be Saints 10 times over by now.

Patience, and "soaker prayers", like the soaker hose in the garden - who knows how the Lord will use our meager efforts, especially if offered in the Divine Will, for the great harvest that is upon us. When this storm breaks in fury, I think we'll all be amazed by how many hit their knees and cry out to God.

 

There was a time my family would not listen to me, when I talked about what is coming down the line right at us. Or at least my mother and my sister believed. Now I think they pretty well all are believers. . Looking at the world around us , I think it is less me they believe that the evidence of their eyes.

For most people, though I think it is not a case of believing or not believing, it is just a case of, 'Getting on with my life'. Of being so immersed in the everyday they just never get a chance to step back and look at things as they are.

Also even if you do step back and look but have no Faith it looks so hopeless and depressing.

As to talking . The Fathers of the Desert used to say that the person who could control their tongue would be the greatest saint that ever lived. I find as soon as I switch it on it runs away at great speed to where ever it takes a notion. Not not I can blame it all on that little runaway muscle as it from the fullness of the heart that the tongue speaks.

Luke 6:45

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

I am fortunate in this way that I live on my own and so have only my two dogs to speak too and I don't suppose I can get up to much harm speaking to them. I find I can easily, when I am not working go days without speaking to anyone. So the only one to really have a heart to heart to is Jesus, His Mother and the angels and saints..oh and the Holy Souls.

The other week though I was given a young guy to work with . I was in a very lively happy mood and talked far, far more than I usually do. I found it led to my heart kind of spilling out within me. It is as if when we are silent we dam up up[ a sea of golden grace. When we speak this golden grace spills out. We empty ourselves when we talk. I felt this that day. and am determined to be more careful in future.

I think also as we get older it should be a more natural thing to us be more quiet just as it is natural for young people , finding their feet to talk a lot. I am always uneasy when I find older people who talk a very great deal.

The only exception being of course when it is the things of God being spoken of.



'Christ in Silence'.

 

One thing you cannot help but notice in the lives of the great saints is that even from childhood they took to silence like ducks to water.

 

Well .... apparently I'm no Saint 'cause I've always had trouble keeping my big, mostly, Irish mouth shut. What's the old saw? It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"

GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!

 

Funnily enough, in my 'dream' heaven i have only gained enough grace to get a bench inside the door, but there is an ongoing massive party with people with better seats - gained with graces i helped them receive.
Possibly theologically bankrupt concept, but Fr John Ricardo once described imagining being in heaven and seeing people being turned away because he had failed to bring them to the light of Christ...