Chapter Four
This is My Plan, Daughter
"Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are .” (Lk 10: 22)
Papa, My Papa:
Barbara:
... I asked you to please write about Me so that others can approach Me in love and trust. All will unfold from this one book. Many paths to Me are open— through each one’s crosses. You must show why the pain exists. Show them and show them how it was and is supposed to be. Give them hope. Only when they come to Me, will things change. They must come home. Seek what My Son has said. I will help you to spread this message of love and mercy. The ultimate end is the CONSECRATION, but first you must show them that I am a loving Father.
I will speak through you to My children. I will bring to you those who will bring all this to light. This is My Plan, daughter. I will see to all things, arrange all things. For you, begin writing and pray to be with Me when you do. Love Me and call on Me. Recognize the evil one’s role. Say your Mother’s Rosary and My [Chaplet] every single day. This will give you protection. Begin and end your day with the Prayer to St. Michael. Each night I will ask you to complete a task on the following day. So come to Me every evening so that we might meet.
Barbara, love is not evil. Especially love of Me. You have understood this. And, yes, you are human and love in ways that are human. But I live in you, also, and I will bring you to new heights that rise above the human condition. Take My Hand and trust Me. Now, I have shown you what I desire for a medal—it is done!
You are to begin by finishing what My Son said about Me; study and meditate
on this. ... I will be with you. Be attentive... Be watchful and you will see. Sum- mon all your strength, faith, and trust. Much is asked of you. But your work is beginning now...in earnest. Give Me your “Yes,” daughter. Commit yourself to Me and establish an “order” dedicated to “My” Mercy. Prodigal Children, Warriors of God Their Father’s Mercy. This is to be an order that lives in the world, but is not of the world. Many are like you, small, hidden, isolated and rejected by the world. These little ones are not successes in the world’s eyes, but they will do much to save souls.They are My warriors. All My little broken ones—this order is for them. I will be pleased with their work of knowing, loving, and honoring Me. They are My most powerful Warriors of Mercy. Their cross is great.
Now:
Strike My medal.
Finish My Consecration Book with Picture.
Study My Son’s Words about Me.
Write the “Prodigal Children.”
... Your work has only just begun. The intrusion in your life of Evil stands in opposition to this work. Pray... Be strengthened in prayer. It is finished! This is My Word—My little rose, warrior of My Mercy.
Bromar4 Meditation
Father says that each one’s crosses are paths open to Him. This means that the crosses that He allows are meant to be means of drawing closer to Him. But how do we know that a cross is from Him? When we are still and calm, we can still experience that He is with us, He is the peace which allows us to persevere and gives us the hope that everything is going to be alright even if we do not know how. Some might say that that is delusional and that we should take all matters into our own hands, that trust is inaction and passivity. But I say that trust in God is an action; rather, it is the action! Trust requires humility and courage, but most of all belief in the one being trusted. When we speak of God, who dares to say that He is not trustworthy? Who is like unto God?!
The Cross of Jesus is what united the Father with His children once again. That is forever more it’s purpose. There is no authentic cross without Jesus on it anymore. The cross means that Jesus is working in our lives to draw us closer to the Father. But not every burden is a cross. There are some burdens we carry that we aren’t meant to. Some burdens are simply emotions or energies trapped in us through trauma. Things we don’t seem to be able to let go of and they weigh us down. But there is no peace in it, there is depression, fear, anxiety, repressed anger, and often some kind of physical pain associated with it. These are not the fruits of a Cross of Jesus. They are remnants of a past trauma not yet fully healed.
A Cross of Jesus is meant to pull us out of harm’s way, free us from something that is harmful to us. It is difficult because we have an attachment of some sort and we don’t know that we can and need to let go and trust God. A Cross is purification and sanctification of us. It is not to break us, but transform us; make us into the image of Him that He created us to be. Unfortunately, being raised in a worldly society, facing much trauma and having to enter said society that tends to devour the innocence of children, we often feel far from that image by the time we become adults. Not to mention that because our image of ourselves has become distorted, we often make many harmful decisions along the way that result in sinfulness. If our experience of all of this is that we did not know better and life's severities rather pushed us into choices where we were in survival mode, we will then not feel or believe that this purification is justified on God's part since we did not deliberately choose this path. But it is necessary. Not because we deserve punishment, but because we deserve freedom from the harm done to us. We deserve the freedom to choose our good and not to simply live compulsively from one coping skill to another.
The things that become a part of us after God created us are not permanent. We are not what we do, but who He made us to be. Therefore, any damage that has been done by sin, by abuse and trauma, or just by living in a society that is not conformed to God and His laws, is not permanent, but needs to be transformed. Hence, the need for purification. To be clear, bad habits, tendencies, errors, vices, addictions, repressed anger, anxiety, depression, impurity, foul language, cynicism, distrust, fears, incredulity... All these things and more. We can be free, we can regain our innocence, our childlike faith, where all things are possible with God.
We need not be afraid of the Cross, of purification. What God does He does with love, with our best interests at heart. If we can trust people who love us, who even at their best can not always do this, then why not trust our Father who can always do this?
May Our Father grant us the grace to embrace our Cross, because Jesus is on it and in doing so we embrace our Savior Himself, and therefore our salvation, our purification, our sanctification, our transformation; becoming the best version of ourselves.
Pax Et Bonum