leadership about current scriptures to direct

2/2/25 7:39pm Thank You Jesus Christ for Creating The Way of Your Word!

Christ has no body now but yours,

No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

. Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

Christ Has No Body 

Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,

Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.

Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body. '

I Love this Saint Theresa of Avila prayer to you Jesus. . . It’s so clear and focused about what life is here for.   I Love You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Mary and St Joseph please guide and lead me to serve your greater Glory!

What you are doing is getting more clear and stronger in your place and priorities. You know and understand these things at a different level than others around you.

I know how important it is to read and get deeper into your Word! This morning I was awake at 2am. I thought I would get back to sleep. But then I realized I had a wicked kewl dream again! It was something I’ve noticed a few times and it really meant that I did get some deep serious sleep already. So fine I was awake, and had a few hours until I needed to start the Prayerline. So I started with this daily reading here=>

This is very well written and very focused on me, and all that I’ve already been considering with the Tux Jacket. I did stop at Salcinos on my drive home from the Farmers Market. I walked in and asked about the used Tux sales. He told me all he had was $2000-$3000 new Tux's and that I was looking for the warehouse sales across from St Pete High School, but they’ve not had a sale like that in ten years. Oh, figures so it was more about the random experience of God using my own history to inspire me to move forward.

What about the rest of the readings your saw.

Yes, I know I was “Slammed” by Your Word this morning, and I started reading and writing early recognizing Your Will for me that moment. As after I read this leadership above about Called to Courage, I knew I had to look at my SEEL readings and Exodus to get current scriptures as it directed me to. This SEEL Week of Prayer #7 started with: “God seeks to free us from everything that gets in the way of loving ourselves, others and God.” And I know it’s all about God, All about Love in Relationship. I see and understand now how as His children, God really seeks nothing more than reaching each and everyone of us, no matter what. Everything is right here ready, where we grow and share with Jesus to bring everything forward. This is all there is here at all.

What you got this Morning from Lisette gets you more focused still 5:35am 2/3/2025::: In what way am I presently sharing in the likeness of God? How can I use this grace to help others?

Wow, this kinda includes everything that I just wrote. I discern the attitudes, tendencies, and intentions that cause Your Word to strengthen me and carry me through this more than ever! This is all about the Grace of God. His Likeness and Beauty inspires and directs me every moment. Accepting that I’ve been surrounded by Your Love, and deepening into this experience we can share now again.

We aim for a graced understanding that cuts to the heart. Like now bringing you back to your previous posting. There the beginning we set just before this, came from your morning podcasts you had running before finding Exodus. These scriptures are very focused where everything about your call to God, is a clear calling away from the lesser things in life, Luke 9:23:

It’s neato how easily Your Words come through in everything around me! Seeing these same Bible Book listing when the first verse listed in this SEEL Week is actually on day 3 with Luke 7:36-50. This was the story about the woman with the Alabaster jar cleaning Jesus’s Feet, and how much a sinner can really benefit from “denying themselves” and submitting to being a servant to turn back to Christ. So the incredible synchronicity shows up again, going from Luke 9 to Luke 7, and now again this concept of leaving the past mistakes for the True Love of Jesus was also the whole theme of the last week No 6 in SEEL, which brought me back to the Prodigal Son Story defining my own experiences.

What was critical about your experience after the death at age 16, was not that you came back, or saw heaven, but your desperate quest for UNDERSTANDING AND WISDOM. You gave up lying and stealing in deceiving everyone, as you were taught your whole life to beat others to attain the american dream, but instead you asked for God’s Perception in all your experiences. This Wisdom has been a consistent blessing and challenge for you.  Laughing at the challenges and random chaos you witnessed, while always seeking to understand Our deeper Truths.  Though like Saturday with the Tux, you still choose to seek more, as if the simple direct messages are not enough. . . 

Yes, remember your Flash with the tux was about the responsibility to lead the greeting efforts at your church, not about showing-off your unique style. The Smily Santa Claus look, in the white tux jacket with the tails popped into your head.Yes, that white tux you had painted was a marvel you miss to this day. Again you are learning and growing from your own powerful history of experience . . . 

Now recognize how these crazy experiences of youth give you a powerful place within these emotions that can now enhance and support your greater understanding. And you recognized how it was important to bring a tux jacket to church. You even ran back inside to find a hanger to stash your jacket in the closet to greet weekly whether you biked or drove to church.

 Of course I drove in, so I brought my tools to reset the tomato plants for Fr. Curtis and make Kim happy. Yes, outside in the garden after church meant that I was also wearing shorts with my Crater Lake farmer hat on. So I really looked dorky with my khaki shorts on, the matching hat, and then the black tux jacket.

What about the Exodus Scriptures

I know , , , 

I get it, and keep returning to this week 7 lesson: where I know we focused on who God is and who we are before God . . . And it is important that I get to the next verse from Exodus 90 that came through to me that morning, Exodus 10:3-6, 12-20. Which showed the constant experience of God blowing out all the stops to get us back to Him any way possible.

As noted in their reflection, God is breaking the bonds of slavery so men can be rooted back to source! Making me Free from the Matrix of lies to root into the dirt of my garden, the true source of life, where we belong. It is remarkable as Sunday I saw Steve who bought my sweet potatoes and asked when they could get more. I admitted I never had a request for more. 

So when I got home after fixing tomatoes, I got into digging out the last of the potatoes in my front yard. This meant I was pulling out the perfect potting soil and separating it from the wood mulch . . . . Then I decided to plant the collection of small potatoes I still had on my free table. And that meant getting serious about separating the soil and mulch. So I got out all my little potting trays to fill with the soil for new seeding. Getting really serious about separating the soil and mulch.

Several times today I went out and planted seeds too. I might have half of them planted now, so there is still lots to do. Jim asked about lunch together today. I decided I would write and plant until lunch and then get into my office to grade schoolwork when I got back from lunch.. Now Jim was too busy for lunch so I’m outside in the hammock for the 1-3pm sunshine … I love sitting here reading and writing in the sunshine.

What about the sinner stuck in their own foolishness: https://youtu.be/6PiS7crTeFk?si=OCl5SKycz5HPT-QM

Yes it’s the same messages coming through to me again and again: The worst kind of alienation is separation from God. The Lord's purpose is to bring us back from our alienated position to oneness with Him. Dr. Stanley explains how God bridged the gap between Himself and us by the cross where He sent His Son to cancel our sin debt: https://www.intouch.org/listen/radio/from-alienation-to-reconciliation-pt-1

What about this one: https://www.intouch.org/listen/radio/learning-to-live-with-lifes-loads

I know this one is great too! The key idea is that in order to be a disciple, we must sever or disentangle anything from our lives that holds us back from fully yielding our lives to God. https://www.intouch.org/listen/radio/the-detachment-of-discipleship-pt-1

What comes to you about this . . . 

I am back in my conversation with my Son on Christmas.  I reminded him of our first conversation after Emily and I met Christmas Eve at StarBucks in Seminole Heights! He was ready to drop out of school to write music, while she knew that he just needed his dad. What was remarkable when we met for pizza at the USF Andros Cafeteria a week later, all he wanted to understand was the e=mc2 Patent.

He told me he had read all he could find of my blogs, but never could really understand this calculus integration idea. I explained it is simply the Mind of God, where all energy and all matter come back together as One. We never got this deep on the Christmas phone call. But I reminded him how it’s all God, and there is only One Life here, where all creation has a purpose and goal, so just like the bunnies reproduce, and the Oak Tree makes acorns. He too was on the Vine with God and getting to age 33 this year, means that the grapes are getting ripe for harvest.

What was remarkable was that he really avoided speaking about God. And he simply said we disagree, and had this unresolved argument, that we don’t need to address now.  I said how Jesus accepted His Passion at 33, and whether Chris believed it or not, it’s something he’s spent his whole life preparing for. And if he still wasn’t clear on anything, it would be time for some pruning to grow some awesome new grapes.

What you remembered here was the concept that your son was due for a loss that was necessary to get his attention back to the True Priorities of life. Whether he likes the Bible, or church, or anything his sister says or not, is really irrelevant. He is still a branch on the Vine with God and Creation . . . . so whether the acorn likes the Oaks or not, even if I liked hanging with the squirrels, it still will grow into the Oak tree . . . Or be devoured by the squirrel. 

 I didn’t need to hear that. The idea of the Vine getting pruned was enough, though I guess that speaks of branches with no fruit g’;’etting cut off and thrown into the fire!

What it is for the vine, the acorn, squirrel, bunnies or your son is all the same. Each has a place and time. The experience of Love, creating relationships, and bringing more Love and Joy as all the fruits of the Spirit will bring you closer to God. And the emotions of Love are such an extreme vibration and power that requires all creation to bring forth. All the rest that exists seeks this vibration and the blessing of Love to be One again with the Creator who Loves. From Alpha to Omega, from the beginning and the end, it is all for this Oneness, as nothing could exist without it. . . 

I know, it’s great to have you explain it.  I Love You Dearest Loving Lord Jesus Christ , , , please be with Emily, Christopher, Brent, Claudia, , , Madison and all the men at Saint Raphaels Catholic Church, Fr Curtis, Fr Claudius, Fr Kevin, all the church and parish families, St Pete, Pinellas County, Tampa Bay, Florida and the Nation. We all need your Strength Love and Wisdom, , , keep us all safe and Healthy for the Glory of Father Son and Holy Ghosts. Amen.