March 12, 1998 (Mary)
My dear children,
The words of My Heart reach out to each of My children to embrace you with peace and understanding that My messages will become alive and bear fruit. My children ---- many times your spoken words have become instruments of destruction. You speak ---- then think and thus remorse follows for you have inflicted injury and harm upon the character of another. Be humble, little ones, for materialism ---- the decorations of life ---- are but surface ornaments beneath which lie the disfigurement of sin.
Your hearts are called beyond this world where you must rise above temptation and evil which strikes from every direction seeking the destruction of your soul. It is through My messages of peace and joy that hope becomes alive ---- strengthened to do battle with the forces of evil. It is through Jesus ---- through whose love comes salvation that each soul is allowed the awareness of true love and peace. You are His children ---- whom He watches ---- gently urging each to pick up their cross and follow Him. There is no other way, My little ones, which leads to Heaven ---- all must bear that which has been allotted to them. Divine grace is the strength which lightens the burdens of life. In the quietness of your heart, beseech the Lord for in His mercy and tender unending love, He blesses His people. Take that step of faith while there is yet time.
Peace and love!