March 6, 2009
Dear Family of Mary!
Message through Mirjana – March 2, 2009
“Dear children! I am here among you. I am looking into your wounded and restless hearts. You have become lost, my children. Your wounds from sin are becoming greater and greater and are distancing you all the more from the real truth. You are seeking hope and consolation in the wrong places, while I am offering to you sincere devotion which is nurtured by love, sacrifice and truth. I am giving you my Son.”
Our Lady doesn’t deny that we are wounded. She just wants us to understand where our wounds come from, and help us find the right place to go to be healed. If we go to the world for healing, we will only get worse. If we seek other powers to heal us, we will end up in bondage. We need to be healed by the “Healer” Himself. Listen to what Mother Nadine has learned about inner healing:
“We are stressing inner healing in this retreat because that is where most of our hurts take place, in the heart. Hearts are in pain today as never before and they are hurting. Sometimes we may not take it seriously because it’s hidden. You can’t see that kind of an “owie” like you can when you break an arm or a leg or bruise yourself. It’s not physical. It can’t be seen but it is deep and it can be felt. It’s of the heart. And it’s feelings. We can say, so casually, well my feelings got hurt. Well that’s really what’s happened. My feelings got hurt. And they need to be made well. I need to be mended, put back together again, because I’m hurting. And some of the hurts are very, very deep. Some of the hurts are like a sword and only God knows how to remove that without tearing us more, without causing more pain. So we want to look a little closer at our own woundedness, our own sin areas sometimes, because that is often where our woundedness is. We can be wounded by our choices and the consequences of those choices. And we want to bring those before the Lord too.
“Inner healing is heart healing. It has to do with the emotions, psychological and the spiritual, all that is within. And often times when that becomes healed the physical manifestations can become healed as well. Often times what is happening to us physically is symptomatic of what is really happening within. Remember we are trinitarian, body, soul, and spirit. So if my spirit is hurting, my soul is hurting, well why wouldn’t my body be hurting too? It is going to take its toll on us.
“But God usually begins from the inside out. So take it seriously when your feelings are hurt. That is very, very real. And this is one of the beauties again of journaling. We take it to the Lord. That’s where we begin. It doesn’t mean that we don’t need to see a doctor. It doesn’t mean that we don’t need to see a psychologist. It doesn’t mean we don’t need to see a spiritual director or a close friend. But it means we take it to God first because He is the healer and He will direct us and counsel us and show us what He wants to do. And probably, nine times out of ten, we will be healed right then and there, especially, we have found, in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. He is pure Love.
“You know when a child is hurt and he runs to his mother or father, I have watched them just kiss that away. All of a sudden the child is fine because that love of the parent made it well. The love of God can make us well. And particularly Jesus in the Eucharist can kiss away our pain and make us well.
“So healing has to occur almost daily in our prayer and in our journaling because it seems like we are getting hurt almost daily. If you’re going to be a lover, if you’re going to be like God, and if you are going to even try to live out the new commandment to love as He has loved us, you are going to get hurt, aren’t you! Because your heart is wide open and it’s vulnerable. And we beg God to keep our hearts open and vulnerable, so that we never stop His love flowing through us out to others. But where are we going to go to be healed? If we are going to keep on loving, we are going to keep on being hurt. So we have to go back to the Source of Love and be healed” (Mother Nadine Brown, Pillars Conference, 2001. Talk #3, Inner Healing).
The first step to healing a wounded and restless heart is recognizing the pain. It shows up through our feelings. Once we recognize we have been hurt, then we can take that hurt to the Lord in prayer, and present it to Him. He can remove the thorn in our heart, soothe our emotions, restore our confidence, and stop the restlessness. He can show us the deep root of the sin area, or why we are being victimized. Through His truth, we can be freed and healed.
Our Lady’s school of prayer in Medjugorje has always been a school of prayer with the heart. This is inner healing prayer. Whenever we present our hearts to the Lord, we are going to receive healing from Him, because that is His nature. He is our loving Father, and He wants to heal us. All He needs is our hearts!
In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV 2009
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There was a painter named Wayne who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further.
Wayne was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried:
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