Friday, October 6th
St. Bruno
Jesus said,, "Follow Me…..leave the dead to bury their dead : your duty is to go and spread the news of the Kingdom of god….Once the hand is laid to the plough no-one who looks back is fit for the Kingdom of God"
Luke 9:60-62.

The initiative is not with My beloved, faithful ones but with Me, and I initiate that which the Father desires. Each is endowed with the necessary knowledge and understanding of progressing that which is to be done, Our Holy Spirit guides and I indwell. So it is with all who give themselves in complete abandon - such are rare . But many - countless numbers - travel at varying rates along the way. Their pace and the measure of their obedience and faithfulness is the measure of their achievement and fulfilment.

Where the going is hard many turn back in their tracks or step aside to easier pastures. They grieve the heart of their Heavenly Father, for they deprive His Kingdom of that which He had purposed for them, and they deny themselves the glorious fulfilment which is the reward of all who continue faithful to the end. But they remain beloved of their Heavenly Father.

All who respond to the Father's approach will know the hardness and the sharpness of its demands on their very being. To love deeply is to suffer, for the world is shot through with the canker of rebellion towards love. And only by freely offering that freedom of heart in suffering love can the deadly progress of the canker be reversed. Identify with the loving purpose of your Heavenly Father in and through My saving love that you may progress to that fulness which He purposes for you.