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March – In the Vosges.

continued: year 1939 from He and I by Gabrielle Bossis

“Don’t say your prayers just to get them finished, but saturate your soul with love. Otherwise it would be better to say less.”

“When I give you power, if you keep it for yourself, it remains with you. If you share it with others it multiplies a hundredfold. Then have the courage to pass it on.”

April 1 – I was thinking of the ugliness of humanity.
“I love you all the same, just as you are.”
“Serve. Serve others. My mother said, ‘I am the servant’.”

April 22 – “Are you fully aware that it is your soul that really matters? Why should I who am Love itself, not have My moments of mysterious, secret love, - a love of My own choosing?”
When my feelings were hurt.

“Make use of your sensitivity. It was given to you so that you might merit by it.”

April 24 – After Communion. I was saying the Lord’s Prayer.
“What other prayer could equal the one I composed myself? (…)

Love your prayers very much,
the Our Father,
the Hail Mary.
You who love works of art,
love your prayers.

When you pray, I guide the words on your lips as one guides the steps of a little child.”

April 28 – After Communion.

“Enjoy Me. Give yourself a rest from saying prayers so that you may enjoy My love.”

Meg: Note the coaching on how to prayer in these few entries:
1. best not to pray by rote. Better to not pray than to not bring personal presence to God. This is what makes it prayer. This becomes a habit, but like mindlessness becomes a habit. We train our minds to be attentive.

2. Share gifts given. It is in prayer that we realize the gifts given. Then, thorough those gifts, which are always some form of energy or power, we share with others. This is effective prayer, the work of grace.

3. Use our emotions, our sensitivities as the content of prayer. This is the same teaching as the Little Way.

4. Use the traditional prayers, too, but with devotion. We use our felt-love of God reciting those words given to us "to pray". So, it is a combination of spontaneous self-talk to God and using the wonderful hollowed tradition of "given" text. It's about respect of what is given from both within our hearts, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and what is given from without, as in our living tradition.

5.And then, at times, rest, rest from saying prayers. Nothing needs to be said. Rest says it all. Yet, to get there and stay there all the training in patterns of ceaseless prayer stills the mind to remember Our Lord. The word remember, as in memory simply means consciousness...that abiding awareness. What's on your mind? We desire to seek God.