Where to Find Heaven!

    I have offered a Free Spiritual Guidance Series for about 15 years.  It has been successful (and did I mention free!) because so many of us have been spiritually starved! 

    Today I feature "Where to Find Heaven"....just one of the articles in our two month series.  Details on how to sign up (once again..for free!) are below!

    The following sample from the series is by the late Father Kilian McGowan, C.P.
     
    The thin, gray-haired penitent hunched over a rough table as he
    slowly penned a letter to his sister.
    Looking at him now, you'd
    never dream that he had been a French Army officer, an explorer,
    a member of the Foreign Legion, and even a Trappist.
    His wild life had caused his expulsion from the Legion, but now he was
    leading a life more penitential than a Trappist!
     
    "God is in us," the ex-Trappist wrote, "in the depths of our soul,
    He listens to us-advises us to converse with Him.
    Train your children to chat freely with this Divine Guest. And may you do
    likewise. In performing your duties, God will perform them with
    you. Gradually, you will become accustomed to this sweet
    Companion-to this God of your heart."
     
    It was the truth of the Divine Indwelling that had transformed
    the life of Charles de Foucald. He knew by experience what our
    Lord means when He promised: "If anyone loves me, he will keep my
    word, and My Father will love him and We will come to him."
    (John 14:23). De Foucald was constantly aware of the Indwelling
    of God by grace.
     
    We all envy this wonderful trait. And we often wish that we
    could be more conscious of the nearness of God. We know that a
    profound appreciation of this truth alone could refashion our
    daily lives.

    Why aren't we like de Foucald? Perhaps we really aren't convinced
    that God is anxious to be invited to our interior home-and to be
    entertained in the depths of our hearts.
    Listen then to the author of the Imitation : "God pays frequent visits to the
    interior man. He speaks to him with kindness. He grants him
    amazing familiarity, an abundant peace, an astonishing familiarity.
    Oh, grant Him a place there."
     
    For your enjoyment, God decorated the heavens with the sun, moon,
    and stars. For you, He clothed the earth with the flowers and
    the fields, the streams and the mountains.
    But amidst all these wonders and in all the vastness of the universe, there
    is but one place He designed for His occupancy-and that is your heart.
     
    A young French Carmelite of the past century also centered her
    spiritual life on this dynamic truth. Writing to her sister,
    Sister Elizabeth said: "It seems to me that this is the secret
    of holiness, and how simple it is. We bear life within us and
    our life is an anticipated heaven...I have found my heaven on
    earth, for heaven is God-and God is within my soul."
     
    At another time, writing to a married sister, she said: "This
    heaven is in the inmost center of the soul. Is not this a simple
    and consoling thought?
    In the midst of your cares as a mother and housewife, you can always
    withdraw into this solitude.

    When you are distracted by your many duties, you can-if you
    will-refresh yourself by descending into the depth where your
    Divine Guest has His dwelling."
     
    There are four ways especially to build up your awareness of God's
    dwelling in your soul:
     
    1) Attention. Be thoughtful enough to recall His Presence often.
    An interior glance takes but a moment; a short prayer, a moment
    more.

    2) Conversation. Speak to your indwelling God frequently. But
    speak to Him as present. Speak to Him in your own words. Be
    spontaneous and simple.

    3) Renunciation. Firmly resolve to renounce absolutely whatever
    would evict your Divine Guest. Mortal sin desecrates His Temple
    and drives God away.

    4) Imitation. As imitation is the highest form of praise, strive
    to be more Godlike in all things. The spiritual life is above all
    else a loving friendship with the Blessed Trinity. Imitation is
    the proof of love.
     
    Yes, anyone can find his heaven on earth, because Heaven is
    God-and God is in your soul!
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    Love and Blessings, Wendy C.

    "Healing Mind, Body & Soul"

     

     

     

     

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