Dignity and Honor

............there is something sacred about coming out to the picnic table.

-- That's why Satan seeks to stop you so. --

why has the morning time become so dry?

-- Because it has become "habit". --

should I stop it?

-- No. --

revamp it?

-- Yes. --

how?

-- I will show you. At the time. Each time.

Don't try to make rules for it. --



no rules?

-- No rules. --



I'm feeling the need to "write", but I feel so conflicted, i.e.: "I don't deserve" to have You speak to me as I haven't been reading scripture a whole lot. What do I do? I hear

-- Write --

I ask, "What?"

-- What I tell you --

but in the interest of "testing" who is speaking, I sit here and bask. I feel like opening "John". As I do I hear -- 14:1 -- which says:



Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me... I will come back and take you to be with Me so that you also may be where I am. You know the place to where I am going (for)... I am the way , the truth , and the life.



-- And you know Me, Pat. --

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.



I feel tense and conflicted. Help me not to make "rules" for You like: "Oh well, of course He wouldn't speak to me in the state I'm in -- I'm too riddled with yuck. Why would He want to get near?"

oh well... please talk to me anyway if that is what You wish. I wait, Lord. Let nothing else intervene, not even me.

Lord? What do I write?



-- What I tell you. --



what would that be?



-- Love Me. Love My children. My poor, poor children. Love them -- they need so much. Just love them. --



but how? What does that mean?



-- Treat them with dignity. Give each one dignity and honor. My honor. I honor each. Treat each with honor as if I were in them -- for I am, when they are Mine. I "feel" how you treat Me. Treat Me with love and treat Me with honor - no matter what the human part of them does to you. Speak to Me in them. --



oh God. Give me grace. You know I cannot do this on my own, in my flesh.



-- That is the point. --



but I don't exactly know how to let You love through me...



-- Come to Me often. Come to Me frequently. I will not leave you abandoned. I will "love" you. Oh, if only you knew! I am light and I am life. --