FollowingJesusUS.com

One of the series by Rachelle Decker, The Seers, talks quite a bit about this concept. We remember our Lord and all that we want to do and we want to be obedient and filled with His Light and Love and share both with others.

But then we forget.

We get so caught up in this world, that we forget that this world is only the size of a postage stamp on a very, very, very large letter. Lol. But that’s okay.

Because we do remember and we do get back on track again 🙂

We are human and sometimes forget, are we chasing success in this world or Following Jesus?

But we do remember, and we can Follow Jesus again 🙂

Mary, our Blessed Mother, protects us. She gives us Peace. She helps us with our fears. She’s our Mother and never lets us feel alone. And She heals us. Sometimes, it is our body She heals and sometimes our hearts. Sometimes She heals us Spiritually.

But praying the Rosary sometimes seems a lost “art”. And yet, the benefits of Praying the Rosary are clear.

The real questions, is why don’t people Pray the Rosary. Some say they are too busy, not realizing the Rosary can be Prayed throughout our day. And it can be Prayed while we drive or while we get ready to sleep. Some think the Rosary is only for Catholics, but that is simply not true. Plenty of Protestants say the Rosary.

We live in a dark world that grows darker by the minute. We need all of the help we can get. And all of the Light.

I love being Mary, our Blessed Mother’s daughter. I love praying the Rosary. It brings me great peace and gives me yet another way to Pray!

And the more we Pray, I promise, the less we worry 🙂

Last night, while praying the Rosary, I saw many soldiers milling about, as well as many officers.

Be Ready!

Mary, Our Blessed Mother, has appeared to us so so many times. She has told us of Her great love for us and Jesus’s great longing to bring us all to Heaven. But She has also warned us many times of our great need to repent and change our ways. To turn back to our Father and to stop sinning.

But in Fatima, She gave us very specific instructions. She warned us of our great need to stop offending God! And She warned us of the great danger posed by Russia. And She asked us to Consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart.

But we didn’t.

We all like to think about Mary, Our Blessed Mother’s great love for us. We like to think of Her Graces. And we especially love to think of Her as our Mother.

But why don’t we listen to Her when She warns us, especially since Her warnings are for our own good?

Could it be Pride and Attachment to Earthly Things…

Remember the story of the twelve lepers and how Jesus Healed them? What a wonderful, happy story. Leprousy was such a dreadful disease.

Leprosy caused many open sores, contagious and deadly, it separated those who were so ill and in many cases, dying, from those they loved the most!

It caused terrifying disfigurement, loss of limbs, loss of hearing and seeing, horrific pain and so much more. Those who had leprosy in Biblical times lived in leper colonies and were forced to wear bells on them in order to warn others of their approach.

When twelve lepers approached Jesus to ask for His Healing, Jesus in His great compassion, Healed them all. But, despite the overwelming, horrific nature of the disease, only one returned to say Thank You.

How often do we forget to say Thank You to God for all He gives and does for us? What is it in us that causes us forget so quickly just how much God loves us and does for us? And no matter the reason, don’t we want to be better than this?

So say Thank You to God today. You will be so glad you did 🙂

“But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.” – Isaiah 53:5

Jesus never got rid of His scars. Remember how He showed His hands to Thomas to give him faith.

And in all of the books about Heaven, Jesus’s scars are always still on His Hands.

They are part of who He is. And Jesus has used His scars time again to help people either obtain faith, or keep it. This world so often believes that scars are a bad thing, but they are not.

They are a good thing, because they help us to help others and they make us who we are 🙂

This life can be hard. Very hard. Very painful at times. Sometimes our suffering comes in physical pain. Sometimes it comes in our emotional pain. Sometimes it just comes.

But there is one thing that we don’t always get taught. Our suffering can be offered up to Jesus. In my case, I have always offered it up to Jesus and Mary for the “conversion of others”. We don’t want anyone to be left behind. And we know that Jesus and Mary do not want that either.

But there is another reason to offer up any pain or suffering. It’s because it makes it so much easier to bear.

Because for now our pain and suffering has a purpose. A good purpose.

Many of us felt that obeying God would come without fear.  That somehow in Trusting & Obeying God, all of the fear in doing so would be eliminated.  But that’s not true.

But I finally realized that Trusting God means taking that step of obedience, no matter how afraid I feel.  So I went anyway. And so can you!

Trust means choosing to be vulnerable and Trusting God will catch us if we fall.  A scary thing!

We can’t afford any delays.  We need to answer God’s Call immediately, no matter how afraid we are.  We need to go anyway!

I am God’s.  He will never let me fall!

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;     I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10

The final step in giving our fears to Jesus is realizing that we are not really afraid that Jesus won’t help us. We know that He will. Our real fear is that Jesus won’t help us the way that we want. But if we think about it, we all know that Jesus will always do what is best for us because He loves us so.

This doesn’t mean that the outcome that we are praying for won’t happen; it just means that whatever the outcome, we can Trust that it is the best one. We need to lean into that knowledge and the fact that Jesus loves us so and stay there.

Because Jesus will help us!