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June 22 – In the country.

continued: year 1939 from He and I by Gabrielle Bossis

“Be very simple with Me. You know how people act en famille....

June 23 – In the train, as I had an unkind thought about another passenger.

“Don’t judge too quickly. Don’t judge people by appearances.”

June 26 – “I want to in-dwell your very being. I’ll live you. I am Life. Life itself. So don’t have any other will than Mine, the will of My Father, and you will be rewarded on the final day.”

June 27 – “What should I expect from Him today?”
“Everything you have asked for in faith.”

July 2 – I had lost my reduced-fare pass.
“Offer Me these little annoyances like your thorns to ease the pain of My own.”

In the train.
“You see, you gave them nothing but a little smile, yet you did them good. You have understood Me. Try to always understand Me, then our oneness will be more complete.”

July 10 – “Who is your God, you or I? Then why don’t you think of Me more than yourself?”

July 17 – “Is it so difficult to talk with Me?

Everything that interests you, every little detail of your life, tell me about it. I’ll listen with such attention and joy.

If you only knew…Tell others to act with Me as they would with the intimate Friend who knows all the secrets of their hearts.”

Meg: This will be the last post on colloquy for awhile. The teachings are rich and sturdy. If we want a known and felt-relationship with Jesus, the Christ, we must use our humanity as a skillful means to meet the Human Jesus who is also Divine.

This way of praying has an object of faith: Christ Jesus. The Subject of our faith is Christ Jesus. The method is awareness of our inner chatter and then lifting up that most inner conversation as prayer. This faith in action is not unlike our apostolic outreach. We see the Christ in the other. In colloquy we see the Christ as our heart's desire. In apostolic action we attend to the needs of the other rather than our own self–centered needs.

In colloquy we attend to the feelings, emotions and sense of being in relationship with another person. This very human consciousness is prayer.

Faith is known not by the gross senses, but by the subtle senses. It is through practice that we form habits that keep us acting consistently with our beliefs.

Some feel colloquy is not their invitation, and maybe not their personality type or inclination. We must remember that we open the door from the inside and request a deep, abiding, personal relationship with God.

It is not up to us how God comes, but it is up to us to respond with humility and gratitude. If the invitation is colloquy then we accept, so gladly accept this most intimate form of being loved by God and having the opportunity to love in return.