STAGE ONE
EXPERIENCING HIS PRESENCE

  GOD IS OUR CO-THERAPIST

 If you think about it and are totally honest about it, you can meet with a therapist one or two hours per week.  There are one hundred and sixty eight hours in a week. With whom do you speak during those other one hundred and sixty-six hours? 

You can speak to yourself.  However, you already know the results of such conversations. You would not be looking for outside help if speaking to yourself were sufficient.  Even if you are not looking for help, aren’t there times during the week when you truly feel the need to let it all hang out with someone else?  Oh you can use a trusted friend.  However, there are some things that you do not wish to share with another person. Perhaps you are too embarrassed.  Perhaps you are afraid that they would think less of you if you shared some of your “top secret” stuff with them. So what do you do? 

Many people turn to spirituality as a way to seek help beyond themselves.  They are reluctant to tell others about this because they do not wish that people think them crazy to be in relationship with a God that they cannot see or touch. So they delve in spirituality on the sly. They go inside of themselves and seek something else that may be helpful to them in relieving them of the stress and anxiety that they feel. 

It is a belief of the Catholic religion that the Blessed Trinity dwells within us 24/7. Can this be proven as a fact? It depends on who is it that you ask for proof.  I give workshops on spirituality and psychology on a regular basis to people who self report that they are “religious.” Many of the attendees are Roman Catholic.  I ask each group several questions. I start off slowly.  What are your responses to these questions. 

How many here are in pain or under stress and need relief from anxiety?  Invariably every hand in the room goes up. 

How many here are seeking peace in their heart? This is essentially the same question as the first.  Once again, every hand in the room goes up. 

I then ask. How many here pray to God for help.  Since this is a select group in that they have opted to attend the workshop, invariably every hand in the room goes up. 

I then ask the clincher.  How many here have had an internal experience of a sense of God somehow within their being?  Surprisingly, a number of hands do go up.  I say surprisingly because that is not something spoken of in Catholic circles.  Yet, it is an surprisingly increasing phenomenon that the majority of people who  attend these workshops raise their hands.

 I do not ask how they experience God’s Presence. However, I know from my own life experience and from reports of many others that they experience a presence that is somehow different from themselves that they cannot define.  This “presence” gives them a sense of inner peace. For them and for me, we ascribe that Peace to the internal presence of God. 

I am not a theologian. I am simply a person seeking a relationship with God.  I respect Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI who categorically state that Catholic must be open to an experience of God so that they can build an intimate, personal relationship with His Saving Love. 

As a therapist, I jump at such an option so that people who come to me in practice have something else to hang on to outside of therapy sessions that they can access through time that they can freely choose to set aside to place themselves in the Presence of God through prayer. 

Prayer is the lubricant of the heart. I believe that the more time spent in prayer the easier it is to open the door to the heart and to be open to experiences of God’s Presence in some manner within our being. 

I also believe in the Infinite Love of God to such an extent that He is able to touch each of us in just the right way at precisely the right moment in our lives if we allow ourselves to be open to such a touch. Thus, the first step for me as a psychologist is to encourage those who come to me to find a way to open themselves to God on a daily basis. 

I suggest that they cultivate the habit of placing themselves in His Presence.  It is something that they can do at a regular time each day.  I emphasize that they should look on this experience in much the same way that they look on coming to me in therapy
weekly.  Thus I suggest that they set a regular appointment time to be with God for at least 50 minutes a day since that is the prescribed time for therapy. 

I do not know what will happen to them in that daily time.  I only know that if they freely choose to set aside fifty minutes a day for forty days that God will find a way to let them know that they are truly in His Presence. 

I am frequently asked. How do I know that God will do anything?  What kind of guarantees can I give? I just tell people that I trust in the Love of God to such an extent that I am convinced that He will make His Presence known and that is the best guarantee I can give. 

People then ask me what they are to do in that time that they set aside.  I tell them to use it in much the same way that they use therapy time.  Tell God in their heart felt manner the problems that they are confronting in their lives.  I underscore the fact that God already knows those problems and He understands their need to “unload.”  After all, if that is what I do as a therapist, surely God, the Perfect Therapist, is much better at the job than I am. 

They then ask.  Well what do I do after I unload.  I tell them to try to quiet down their inner voice.  Contemplative Prayer people suggest using a mantra.  I use a single word “Jesus” as my mantra.  I sometimes say the Rosary while contemplating on the Mysteries.  I always ask for God’s help to quiet down my mind. 

I tell people that our minds are our worst enemies when it comes time to relate to the Love of God internally, intimately and experientially.  We have to do as Mother Teresa said in response to Larry King’s question of what she does in prayer.  She said, “I listen.”  Larry King pursued her further he asked, “Well! What does God do?”  She answered, with a droll smile, “He listens too!”

I have been trained as a psychologist and I have trained others to be counselors and psychologists. One of the attributes of a good counselor is to truly listen with your heart so that you can come to understand the inner world of the person who comes to you for therapy.  In a sense I advocate the same approach to those who go to God as their Therapist during the week on a daily basis.  I stress the need for them to begin to use their will to quiet their mind so that they can learn to listen with their heart.  That’s easy to say and hard to do. Yet, with effort, it can be done. 

I am told. I get so restless just sitting quietly. Can I pray out loud?  I respond, “Of course you can.” However, try not to follow a prescribed routine because the routine will get in the way of listening.

 A MEDITATION
WRITTEN IN ADORATION
CONFIRMING
GOD IS OUR CO-THERAPIST

WHOSE WORDS ARE THESE

I teach you discernment when it comes to recognizing My Voice in you. It is so easy to ascribe your thoughts to My Words in you. This is especially true when what you hear internally coincides with what you want to hear. Thus I teach you how to know My Voice in contrast to your
words.

My Voice is different than the way your inner stream of consciousness usually is. It is not that you actually hear a voice. What you somehow sense internally is a Presence that lends authority to what you hear.

At times I give you inner signals. I may provide hear as a first level indicator that what you hear is from My Sacred Heart and not something generated by you. I usually create a sacred space of inner silence so that there is a verbal lull between your regular inner voice and My Words forming in you. Then My Words just form. There is no actual voice that you hear. The words just appear seemingly out of nowhere.

I usually provide other signals. You sense that your regular voice is silent as it makes way for My Words within you. There is like an aura of Peace that permeates your psyche as it pays fealty to My Presence through reverent silence.

I make you aware of Who speaks in you. I identify Myself. I use My Name, Jesus, The Most Holy Spirit, God the Father or The Blessed Trinity either in the letter I share or in My Signature as the letter ends.

I caution readers of these words that when they are in doubt as to Who it is that speaks in them to always ask Me "in the Name of Jesus" to identify Myself. I will always do so without hesitation. If there is no response to your request, assume the words are not Mine.

We are not ashamed of Our Identity. We always share who it is who speaks when you ask in Our Name to identify Our self.

Most times Inner Peace accompanies Our Words. This is true even if what We say is at odds with what you may want to hear. It is This Peace that enables you to write despite being conflicted about what you write. Humor is a hallmark of The Presence of Our Most Holy Spirit. Laughter is a Universal Healer. Souls in deep despair find themselves laughing through their tears.

Music is yet another source of reassurance of Our Presence in you. We may sing to you as We prepare you to receive what We wish to say. Music clears your intellectual palette. It is impossible to worry when Our Most Holy Spirit serenades you.

Many times We find ways to confirm that what you hear is truly from Us. Scripture is Our Living Word. Thus, when you open the Bible in prayer time, Our Word confirms what We Teach you. We also plant seeds verbally in you that subsequently come true later in your day or even beyond your day.

Then there is the Power of The Eucharist. Once you receive Our True Presence physically you experience Peace, Love, Joy and many other inner confirmations that what We say in you is true.

This letter may be overkill for beginners in the process of internal purification. Suffice it to say for such beginners that I will teach you discernment as you progress in your journey home to My New Jerusalem.

For those further along in My Reclamation Process, I know that I merely am confirming what you experience. Thus I tell all. I will confirm My Truth in you in whatever manner I see fit to do so.

You choose to be open to Me. I will always help you discern Me in you in whatever way that fits the uniqueness of your personality.

Okay? Hmmm!!! Whose words are these?

Love,

Us

 EUCHARISTIC CONFIRMATION

Now it is time for you to receive My True Presence in The Eucharist. We change bread and wine into the Body and the Blood of Jesus with the Love of the Father through the Power of Our Most Holy Spirit. Transubstantiation occurs. Timeless Love creates a miracle on this altar at this Mass and at each Mass offered anywhere in temporary.

 I ready souls to receive Me physically. Say the Our
Father. Join all in My Mystical Body in surrender to the fact that I, Jesus, am truly The Messiah. Receive My Peace spiritually and mentally. Ready yourself to receive My True Presence physically. Be in Communion with Me.

 Pause

I come to you in affirmation of your belief in My True Presence in the Eucharist that you receive at Mass. I fill you with My Love. I empower you with clear insights into My World through the Miracle of Transubstantiation. I open your mind to experiences of My Inner Love in such profound and moving ways that it is impossible for you to doubt who it is that speaks in you.

Eucharist is My Weapon of Choice. I freely choose to be involved in humanity's constant ongoing daily battles against evil's fear, doubt, worry and anxiety.

I am Truth. I am revealed in you internally. I confirm this fact by the Powerful Manner through which My Divinity mixes within your humanity.

That is My Ultimate Discernment.
There is no need for any other.

Love,

Jesus

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