November 13, 1999
"My children,
I have placed into your hands the staff --- the staff of leadership and guidance. I now ask you, can you drink from My cup? ---- for your responsibilities are great and only by drinking from My cup will you fulfill your mission in this life. It is your choice. If you so choose to drink from this, My cup, grace upon grace will come to sustain you. Taste the bitterness of life ---- yet know that My true presence sweetens the cup from which you shall drink. Choices, my dear children --- so many choices. How do you choose? Pray before you answer for you know not what "yes" would mean. Truly you must understand, once mine ---- always mine."