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As promised I share with you today an older dream that is a very precious experience of Jesus.  It is one that made me realize what empty rattling tin cups we are without God.  I share it to bear witness to the truth of the spiritual life, the existence of God and His Son, Jesus and to allow it to be a beacon of light.  I do so in service to you, so that in the busyness of your life, you may not overlook the fulfillment and beauty that is to be found in the sincere search for God.  This experience is one my Spiritual Director has called a night vision:

 

Explosion of Love

Explosion of Love

DECEMBER 14, 2002

I dreamed I was lying in my bed sleeping (which I was!).  All of a sudden Jesus (in spirit form) came in the door of my bedroom.  He was see-through and clear, but with a definite shape:  as if I was seeing a spirit like a ghost, but He was completely clear – not one spot.  I knew Him instantly with great joy and spontaneous recognition and I said to Him, “Jesus!!!”

I looked up as He came to hover over me and He opened His arms (still in spirit form, but I knew what He was doing) and when He did I felt the most huge and overwhelming explosion of love come from His chest and envelop and invade me.  I strained absolutely every fibre of my being upward toward Him and was begging Him to take me higher into union with Him.  I felt all of my being rise and merge with Him in such love as I’ve never seen or felt on this earth.

Everything on this earth is a poor substitute that we try to fill ourselves with.  The love was an absolutely indescribable feeling – human words cannot say – just an agonizing aagghhh!  I’m not sure how long it lasted or if I spoke after this.  As the Presence lifted there was left at the end of the dream a very large, but very thin gold cross hovering over me.  I stared at it.  It was shiny and jeweled – very beautiful and delicate looking.

When I awoke the feeling of immense love and awe stayed with me and I felt ‘Oh My God!’  I am so much deeper in love with Jesus now…He is the most beautiful Thing I have ever seen!!! This dream/vision left me feeling that I am just an empty rattling tin cup that can only be filled by Him and that Love…

As I contemplated the dream and the cross that was left over me, I pondered its meaning and prepared myself for a cross to bear that would be coming.  It was a series of painful events that lasted and culminated January 2.  In the worst of my pain January 2nd, at the height of what I now realize was a very fruitful, purifying spiritual trial, one of my children brought me a beautiful six-sided Sacred Heart medallion.  The picture on the medallion was of Jesus pointing to His Sacred Heart (it was almost like a sign to remind me of this dream!) It was in the same silver as my necklace, complete with a ring to put it on the chain and it perfectly matched my chain and other medallions.  It comforted me immediately and I put it on with the others.  They found it in an area I had just vacuumed and I know it did not belong to anyone else in the house. 

I have found that this is just one of the ways that God consoles, even in the process of the purifying trials we go through – He does not leave you alone on the hard journey of holiness, as many experiences I will be sharing with you in future will show…

Karen

Poor in Peru

Poor in Peru

 March, 2009

 

Dear family, relatives and friends:

Greetings and blessings from Ottawa with my wishes for a very Happy Easter!

As our Holy Father, Benedict VI wrote in his wonderful Lenten Message for this year, there are three practices that help us prepare better for the celebration of Easter: prayer, fasting and almsgiving.

If one corresponds to what is being asked by the Church, then one enters into a greater celebration at Easter. Maybe almsgiving is not so common in our days – maybe there are no opportunities for almsgiving … I would like to give you an opportunity to help the poor in Peru and bring joy to their Easter celebration as well.

In this picture you see a child from a shantytown in Lima looking in a dump for something that can help him and his family survive. When we see what hardships some of our poor brothers and sisters go through, then we can consider ourselves very fortunate in Canada. Every little bit helps, as Scripture says:

“whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones…amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”  Matt. 10:42,

 and also

“Come, you who are blessed by my Father … for I was hungry and you gave me food.”   Matt. 25:34

May the joy that comes from helping others be magnified in you as you experience the joy of the risen Christ in the Easter Vigil celebration.

I will be praying for you also at the Feast of the Divine Mercy so dear to my mother and myself; may the promises of the Lord be realized in you.

Make cheques out to M.A.M.I., Peru projects.  You will receive an income tax receipt (address: MAMI, 601 Taylor Street West, Saskatoon SK S7M 0C9, Tel.: 306-653-6453 – this is the Missionary Association of Mary Immaculate).

May God bless you and keep you and make His face shine on you.

 

In the peace and love of Jesus and Mary,

Joe Kane, O.M.I.

 

(613) 233-3717

Today I would like to share with you an older dream with words from God, the Father.  The message of the dream imagery, along with the words He speaks, create a very clear, compelling request that we would all do well to heed.  It is a longer dream, so without further ado I present it for your discernment:

Insinuate by Johnny Hart

Insinuate by Johnny Hart*

MAY 3, 2005

Dreamt I was sitting at a table, telling a friend of my unusual dreams of God levitating me and speaking messages through me.  All of a sudden God entered me again with a powerful force and levitated me.  I was again slightly alarmed at what force was possessing my body.  I blessed myself and repeated “Jesus Christ” and said a few Hail Mary’s. Then the Prescence shot me out of the area I had been in.  I trusted it to be God and my body was in His power.  I said:

“What would you have me do, my Father?”

I hung suspended in the neighbourhood of Heart’s Desire.  He took my body, still levitated, and shot me through a gap between two houses.  He brought me to the edge of a cliff drop-off behind these homes.  There was a river there.  I trusted He would not let me fall to/in the water below, but I was a little disconcerted as I was quite high and the edge was rocky with water below.  But God paused here, as if waiting for my permission for Him to lower me off the cliff.  Even though apprehensive because it was a long fall I agreed and He descended me.

He took my body at a powerful speed into/above the river.  There were tall rocky cliffs on either side and we were in the middle of the river between Heart’s Desire and Stonebridge.  There was a computer set up in the middle of the river.  I sat possessed by His spirit/levitated – not touching the water, but on the surface and God controlled my body while a screen clicked on.   It showed many icons.  They all looked army green.  I clicked on an icon to open it.  It became as if a video game, which surprised me.  It showed the player surrounded by many larger creatures – beasts.  The beasts were surrounding from all sides and converging and swallowing the poor person that was the player.  The game was being lost.  The poor pitiful player would attempt to go to one thing in the world after another.  These worldly amusements looked like small slightly coloured prizes/attractions.  Each was a small icon like the symbols you try to click on or eat in a video game to win points.  But the player couldn’t make it do much at any of the icons because he turned from one to another, trying to flee these army green beasts and they were totally surrounding him.  Defeat was imminent and unavoidable.

The beasts were coming at the player from all sides and hemming it in and devouring it.  I saw this happen and then God lifted me away again, possessing my body and levitating me up the other side of the cliff to go warn people.  He shot me through the streets to the people.

I came to a table at a fork in the road.  One road went up and the other down – a high and low road, if you will.  The low road ran along beside the river I had just left.  There were many people around this table, some sitting, some standing.  Some people I knew and some I didn’t.  I started to speak God’s words/warnings to them.  I spoke of the impending Day of Judgement.  I spoke of the need to repent.  A girl I know, who I knew was a regular attending Catholic, started to cry and believed my words and what was occurring through me.  Her heart was softened and moved and she was amazed.  Some others stood/sat dumbfounded and stupefied at what was occurring and being said by me.

Another man, who I knew was Catholic, but did not know, sat laughing and mocking me and my warnings (mocking me as the witness).  God spoke to him through me and said:

“You call yourself a Catholic?  You will be sorry on the Day of Judgement!”

He said this because the man did not heed me or the warnings.  Then God levitated/moved me through the streets and I continued to proclaim my messages as He spoke through me.  The last, which I spoke aloud as I rose from sleep, was:

“PREPARE YOUR HEARTS!!!”

This was in reference to the fact that Judgement was imminent/very near.

 

The Unique Snowflake of Your Soul

The Unique Snowflake of Your Soul

The message of this dream seems pretty clear.  Examine your hearts!  Where do you think you stand on the path to holiness, which is the calling for each one of us?  Many people think holiness is only for a certain few chosen ‘saints’, but this is not the truth.  God has created each and every one of us for holiness.  But what is that, exactly?  It is to become, with time, grace and effort, a unique expression of love.  They say that there are no two snowflakes created equal.  To try to register this fact is mind-boggling!  How much more wonderfully complicated and wonderful are you – a unique human being!  There is no other you!  God has created you (and I believe I was given a little scientific vision of the ‘how’ which I will share down the road).

If I could convey one thing to you on this website, it would be to not sell yourself short for the faintly coloured little worldly amusements that you think fulfill you.  You have no idea what an empty, rattling, tin cup you really are inside until you find God – love!  We were each created to be filled and with this love that is God.  Without it, we are pitiful players, desperately going from attraction to attraction trying to fill ourselves up.  Think about it for a minute.  Where do you think the disordered, unhealthy addictions come from?  They come from the deep internal knowing that we have been separated from the thing that created us – God – love.  The aching chasm deep in our souls can never really be filled with anything else that makes us whole – satisfied.  Think about the food addictions, alcoholism, sex addiction, thrill seeking, power and money addictions, and I could go on and on and on.  Why is it never enough?  Why doesn’t it fill the hole?  Why do we wander from one faintly blinking icon attraction to another, only to still feel that something is missing?  Because it is!!!

I know it isn’t ‘cool’ these days for many people in the world to hear teaching about God, let alone Jesus.  Mmmmmmm.  Whether it’s cool or not, the fact is still that we are all empty, rattling tin cups when we look elsewhere for the thing our heart truly desires and was created for.  Love.  Please don’t wait ’til you’re faced with your mortality to contemplate this fact.  Please don’t miss the entire lesson of your life here on earth – seeking God and growing in love.  God is an atom bomb of love!  I, in my finite, limited existence, do a paltry justice to God in trying to describe the things I have seen.  An atom bomb of love is the closest thing I can think of to describe Him, as it is the biggest explosion of energy and power that I know about in the physical sense. 

As we head towards Easter, I think next week would be a good time to share with you an early experience I had – an experience my spiritual director calls a night vision.  It was a definitive experience of Jesus and the love that is His Sacred Heart, that made me truly aware of what a rattling, empty, tin cup we are without God.

I think all we need to do is examine our hearts and do as He asks…repent and prepare our hearts

Karen

*To see more of Johnny Hart’s work please visit www.johnhartstudios.com.