A Friend of Medjugorje shares a short glimpse of how closely Our Lady walks with us, and it answers the question, Is it possible to make things better on earth?
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[THEME MUSIC]
[REYES]
You are
listening to Radio WAVE with your host a Friend of Medjugorje.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
Yesterday, of course, we received
Our Ladys 25th message. It was Sunday night, so we always transfer
it to Monday night. And its a great joy. Sometimes you get messages that you
have to reflect on, you have to evaluate your
conscience. But this message She gave is very beautiful. And there are a lot of
things that surrounded it that surprised us. Even though its a short message
and simple, it has a fullness of meaning for us as any message weve received.
Why do I say that? Well go ahead and read the message and go right into it.
[JOAN]
Our Ladys August 25, 2019 monthly
message to the world.
Dear
children! Pray, work and witness with love for the Kingdom of Heaven that it
may be good for you here on earth. Little children, God will bless your effort
a hundred fold; you will be witnesses among peoples,
souls of unbelievers will feel the grace of conversion and Heaven will be
grateful for your efforts and sacrifices. Little children, witness with the
Rosary in hand that you are mine and decide for holiness. Thank you for having
responded to my call.
So, let me just backtrack a little
bit before a Friend of Medjugorje takes over. We were in the Field yesterday
for the Rosary. It was a grace that it was Sunday, that the 25th
fell on a Sunday. There is a lot going on in the mission right now. We are looking
toward the end of summer, the beginning of fall. And so, in
the midst of all that, we are praying the rosary knowing its the 25th,
knowing Our Lady is going to be giving a message in these next moments. And, as
he often does, a Friend of Medjugorje will say a short prayer before that
moment of the apparition.
So, we were also blessed that as we
were praying the rosary in the Field, we also had Community members that are
with Marija in Medjugorje, who are there at her apparition when she got the 25th
message. We knew that they were interceding for a Friend of Medjugorjes family
and all of us in the Field. So, we were very united at that moment. A Friend of
Medjugorje, he normally just brings our attention to the fact that Our Lady is
about to give a message and that our hearts would be open to receive those
words.
But yesterday, he actually prayed more of a unique prayer, something out of
the ordinary. And many in the Community took note of that as he was praying
this prayer. So, he said something to the effect that, Our Lady, we ask that
You give a clear line for us in Community in this message today. Come to us. We
ask all your intentions for us be realized and that in everything we do, we
seek to be holy.
After that prayer, and after we
ended the rosary, we stayed in the Field for another hour or so and there was something that was different in being there in the Field
than other Sundays, than other 25ths. There was a presence of Our Lady that was
very felt.
And later, when we received the
message, we were really in awe of the words that Our Lady gave. Because, it
wasnt just a line that a Friend of Medjugorje had asked in the prayer, that
Our Lady would just give one line in the message. But the whole message was a
message of our life, of our work, of our witness, of what Our Lady has led a
Friend of Medjugorje to through all of these years of
responding to Her call, and by extension, the Community. With the first three
words, Pray, work, and witness, those really are words that would
define who we are as a Community and our Way of Life. Witness, of course, referring back to October 6, 1986, the signature message
that Our Lady gave to a Friend of Medjugorje that began everything and led to
Her coming here and the Way of Life here. A way of life in which we live,
literally, the Kingdom of Heaven.
We were there praying on our knees
in the Field for this apparition rosary with our rosary in hand. And a Friend
of Medjugorje had said that we were seeking to be holy in this message. And Our
Lady said, With your Rosary in hand witness that you are mine and decide
for holiness. There are many things in this message that just connected to
our hearts when we read it to the prayer that a Friend of Medjugorje prayed.
Even the order of the words, Pray, work, and witness, is the order in
which Our Lady began walking this with a Friend of Medjugorje. You pray first,
you bring that into action, work, and the cognition you get through that, you
witness.
Do you have anything to add to
that?
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Well, I can say I was stunned once
I read the message, knowing what was prayed beforehand that Our Lady really was
listening. We know that. We believe that. But we have often these extraordinary
signs from Our Lady to let us know, Im hearing you. Im answering you. And
I give you something. It wasnt just one line I asked for. The whole
message is this way. And She refers to the very first apparitions here in the
valley when She said on November 20, 1988, She said, May
your life be prayer. May your work be offered as a prayer And so
yesterday She says pray and work. Referring back to November 20, 1988, She said that because She knew what She was going to grow
here that was going to require a lot of prayer, and a lot of work.
We are
underwater with work right now. We have so many projects, so many things were
doing, and we have to keep up our witness. So, we
pray, we work, and we witness. For what? Were working for the Kingdom of
Heaven. Thats what our life is. We are privileged, undeservingly, that we live
in a place, that, what Our Lady said yesterday, Dear children! Pray, work,
and witness with love for the Kingdom of Heaven And thats what we do.
Our existence is for that purpose. This woman has got the power on the earth to
do so many things that its unbelievable. And we see this tangible motherhood,
the new efficacy Ive been speaking about for two decades-plus, almost since
the beginning of the apparitions, that Our Lady leaves traces of Herself to let
us know that our faith is being shaken. And everything is being broken in the
way the world operates. But Shes leaving Her presence.
She
actually sent the odor of holiness to let us know who have shattered hearts,
who have cracks in them, that through your difficulties, through those cracks
in your heart, actually you cry out to God and its where Her love enters into
the heart. If youre wounded, youre going to turn more to a mother. If your
heart is shattered, this gives the ability for Our Ladys love to get into your
heart. It relates to, there are no atheists in the foxholes in Normandy.
Our Lady
said on May 2, 2016, my childrenobserve well the signs of the times to
gather the shattered crosses There are so many wounded hearts all across mankind, everywhere, every family. And through
those things, those difficulties, Our Lady wants in. All roads are leading to
Our Lady because God has mandated that. It brings us to our knees. Thank God
for this Woman who is with us. And yesterday She manifested Herself that youll
hear more things as we go into this broadcast that makes you understand, we
would lose our mind if we had to face everything without Our Lady. We wouldnt
be making it. Were all drifters across the world in our heart. And Shes come
to give us Her heart, for us to have a home.
[SONG: WOMAN,
AMEN]
I'd lose my
way and I'd lose my mind if I faced one day on my own. I know I was saved the
night that She gave this drifter's heart a home.
Every night
I should be on my knees. Lord knows how lucky I am. I'll never say near enough
thank God for this Woman, Amen.
This world
has a way of shaking your faith. I've been broken again and again. But I need
all the cracks in my shattered heart 'cause that's
where Her love gets in.
Every night
I should be on my knees. Lord knows how lucky I am. I'll never say near enough
thank God for this Woman, Amen.
She gives
me faith. She gives me grace. She gives me hope. She gives me strength. She
gives me love, love without end. Thank God for this Woman, Amen.
Thanks for
the moon and the stars up above. Forgiveness' a sin in your undying love. Every
twist, every turn for the way you made sure all my roads led to Her.
So tonight I will fall down on my knees cause
Lord knows how lucky I am. I'm gonna shout at the top
of my lungs, thank God for this Woman, Amen. And thank God for this Woman, Amen.
She gives
me faith. She gives me grace. She gives me hope. She gives me strength. She
gives me love, love without end. Thank God for this Woman, Amen.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
This Woman
who walks the earth every day with us has told us that She wants to create a
kingdom of love. Were going to be drawn into that, and if youre not drawn
into that, it wont be doing good for you. Thats what She said yesterday,
Dear children! Pray, work, and witness with love for the Kingdom of Heaven
that is may be good for you here on earth The earth is not a good place
to be right now. Its a good place to be if youre looking at that Woman, this
Woman, the Woman of Revelation.
And so, we
ask simply for some words. Put one line in the message. Ive been focusing on
the prayer for the abode of God for the last three months. Thats a
consecration weve said for 32 years to give this valley to Our Lady to
establish Her Heavenly queenship here as no other place on earth. How is that
asked in the Prayer for the Abode of God? Remember, I asked yesterday for just
one line. But we got several lines from Our Lady directly connected to us and
who we are and what we live. And the Prayer for the Abode of God that I wrote
in 1989 is a collection of short, ardent prayers that I prayed over all these
mountains, in the mountains, in the rainstorms, all over the place before
anybody came here.
This pray
is addressed to God, the Father. So, I say this to God the Father, I ask of
you not only to grant the intentions of Our Lady, but to go beyond and to grant
one hundred-fold Her intentions pertaining to the Valley. Naturally,
asking for something to be said to us, and She puts this in there. Shes only
said one hundred fold two other times in 38 years of
apparitions, and it was referencing not in the context of what She said
yesterday in the message. What did She say? If you pray, you work, you witness
with love for the Kingdom of Heaven, which is what weve established here, that
it may be good for you here on earth It was good yesterday. It was sweet.
It was beautiful. If you had a curtain that you could peak through this, you
would be full of joy of how we had our Sunday and how we enjoyed it yesterday
in the Field.
that it
may be good for you here on earth. Little children, God Remember,
Im addressing God in the Prayer for the Abode of God. And Our Lady says
yesterday, God will bless your effort a hundred-fold What do we pray
for? What do we work for? What do we witness for? For people out there to
become believers. Weve got people here who hated us, despised us. Were
selling some of our extra market at a farmers market about eight miles here.
One couple came by, looked at what we were, and they asked where our place is.
We told them where they are, and they said theyre in Vandiver. Then they said,
the Community members, Where? Where on 43 are yall? Were about halfway
down from Highway 280 to Vandiver. Well we live in Vandiver. Where are you
at? We said Caritas. They said, Oh. Caritas. They walked off.
See, weve got a bad reputation with a lot of people. And they dont believe.
They dont certainly believe in us.
A little
while later they came back, started talking a little bit more, when they left.
The next week they came back and bought some meat. Do you know what theyre
doing now? Theyre hugging our people, the Community there. Why? Because Our
Lady says, God will bless your effort a hundred fold;
you will be witnesses among peoples We see this all the time. Theres a
power that is carried with us that is not of us. Its from Gods blessing.
Because weve prayed 32 years the Prayer for the Abode of God, asking God to
not only grant the intentions of Our Lady, but to go beyond and grant one hundred fold Her intentions pertaining to the Valley. And
here it is, people drive through this valley every day, they dont like us.
And we have
one of the Protestant preachers, two churches down, about four miles from us,
is coming to us and bringing his people here to talk to them. What happens? Our
Ladys message yesterday, you will be witnesses among peoples, souls of
unbelievers will feel the grace of conversion Now, they are believers.
They have a church down there. These other people are believers. But they
werent believers in us. But they are now. And we see this not one, two, not
ten, not 50, not 100, thousands of times we see this! Why? Because our life is pray, work, and witness with love for the Kingdom of Heaven
that it may be good for you here on earth.
We had a
good, beautiful Sunday that we wont forget about yesterday. And that happens
often. And our work is very hard. Were sacrificing. Our Lady said, souls
of unbelievers will feel the grace of conversion and Heaven will be grateful
for your efforts and sacrifices We live sacrifice, and when we get the
consolation, its overwhelming to us. What Our Lady told me October 6, 1986, Pray
and by your life witness. Not with words but rather through prayer will you
attain what your desire is Thats the power Our Lady has. I asked
something from Our Lady, and She gave it. She didnt give just the words one hundred fold. She talked about witness. She talked about the
work. She talked about prayer. She talked about how the unbelievers, and we
witness this, and then She adds that Heaven will be grateful for your efforts
and sacrifices.
What does
that mean? Heaven. How is Heaven grateful for us? Because youre going to feel
Heaven with people. Everybody is being affected right now through Our Lady.
Its making all of Heaven rejoice. What does the Scripture say of the return of
one sinner, that all the angels rejoice. Isnt that
beautiful? Never would I think Our Lady would give a message like this, just
put one line in there for us that shows us that youre talking to the Community.
Yes, this message is for you. But we have a direct tangible way of life that
our work, our witness, our prayer, is building a Kingdom of Heaven. And its
going good for us, but its very difficult. It requires efforts and sacrifice.
And through all those things, we always have to have
the witness.
[JOAN]
For years
youve been talking about this efficacy of Our Lady that you believe this time
that were coming into, theres going to be a power, a greater efficacy of the
presence of Our Lady in the lives of the Church, in the lives of the faithful.
You often will say in Medjugorje, youll walk some of our pilgrims through a
piece of property that you purchased many years ago because of the desire to
preserve places in Medjugorje to keep it organic, to keep it just as it is
today as it was 20 years ago, or 50 years ago.
And you
said that years ago you were walking through this area and you just said to God
in, not even a prayer, I wish I could have this one day, just to preserve
Medjugorje. And, you didnt think anything of it until after you had actually purchased it years later realizing, in amazement,
that God had given you that piece of property just from wishing for it. But
because your wish was in line with the will of God.
This
summer, being with Marija, we had the opportunity to be in Our Ladys presence
many times. One of the times you were there in Medjugorje, and a situation
happened with a bishop in New Hampshire I think. His
name is Bishop Tobin who had made some remark about abomination, some things
going on in the laws up there. And he was making a stand against it. So, a lot
of heat was coming against him. He was really all
alone. Hardly any other bishop would stand with him. And you had heard about
the story, and you went to Marija, and you told Marija, Marija, this bishop
is really getting hit hard. I really would like to give him to Our Lady asking
Our Lady to strengthen him through these prayers and through Her blessing.
So, Marija told you, Give me a picture of him. Ill put it right down at
the bottom by Our Ladys statue and it will remind me to pray for him during
the apparition. Which, you did.
After the
apparition, Marija was really in amazement because when she mentioned this to
Our Lady, and keep in mind, Marija has people, so many people who are coming to
her for every kind of intention. And that there are many in the Church who are
constantly bring to Marija their priests, their bishops, that they want her to
pray for. On this particular day, when Marija presents
Bishop Tobin to Our Lady, Our Lady just stands there, doesnt continue on with
the apparition, which is unusual. When Marija is interceding for other peoples
intentions, its very, very rare that Our Lady will stop and pause. Normally
Our Lady just hears them and continues with the apparition with the blessing
and leaves.
But there
are times, again rarely, when Our Lady will stop, will pause in the middle of
the apparition. And when that happens, Marija understands this as an indication
from Our Lady that Our Lady is giving her the ability to explain further what
her intention is. In this case, Bishop Tobin. So, Marija understood that Our
Lady was giving her the ability to tell Our Lady more about the situation. And
this was even surprising to Marija. This was exciting to Marija when this
happens because it doesnt happen very often. And thats how her excitement was
really relayed after the apparition, speaking this way. I bring this up because
this is just one of many circumstances that Ive been a witness to and other
people in the Community have been a witness to.
When a
Friend of Medjugorje goes before Our Lady, that I see the evidence of this
efficacy in bringing forth these intentions that are in line with Our Ladys
intentions, She responds to that in the apparition.
And yesterdays apparition, yesterdays message, is just one more indication
that Our Lady called a Friend of Medjugorje to be a witness.
And I want
to make it perfectly clear. This is not to patronize a Friend of Medjugorje
then saying these things. Our Lady said today, the Kingdom of Heaven
She says we have to win Heaven. She says we have to merit Heaven. She says it takes effort and sacrifice.
She called the Rosary Her weapon and that we have to
have the weapon in our hand to have the victory. She has Her generals down
here. Were in battle, a big battle between Heaven and hell. And when a general
is in battle, he goes to the commander in chief and he says, Look. I need
more ammunition. I need more people. I need more time. I need food. I need
whatever that is needed in the battle. And the commander in chiefs duty
is to see that the generals are getting what he needs for his people.
This is
what I see is the relationship between what happens with a Friend of Medjugorje
going to Our Lady and Her actually responding to him,
an amazing thing to see over and over and over again. But it is necessary for
Our Lady to give Her generals what they need to win this battle. And thats
what I see that anyone that is willing to enter into the battle with Our Lady, Shes duty bound to give what is needed. Im not saying that
I believe everybody will have the same exact experience because Our Lady has
invested many, many years into what She has shaped you into and your mission,
along with the Community thats beside you. But I believe that this is a
witness that you are giving to show that Our Lady is alongside every single
person that will embrace Her as mother in this time.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
To really
view this in the correct way, for me, I have to do
what Our Lady said on October 6, 1986, because I know She has invested a lot in
what weve done, what Ive done. Shes put me in places where I know that was
not by chance. It gave me a new perspective, it gave me a voice, it gave me the
writings and everything. But Our Lady said its not with words with me. In that
October 6, 1986 message, one of the most powerful things in it, She ended it,
She said after youre going to be a witness and youre going to attain your
desire, She ends it saying, Therefore, pray more and live in humility.
And thats why I do bury a lot of things that have happened. And not Ive
spoken about so many things and experiences with Our Lady because Our Lady knew
when She said that, that She was going to give me words. But its not through
words that Im going to get my salvation or attain the desires, its through
prayer. But because what Shes going to do so much, as a witness, in regard to me, I have to remember to always be humble. And
so, I dont think a lot about this.
Except, I
want to testify that Our Lady is your Mother. She has this efficacy. It is
available to you. I know some of the things Im writing is going to be here
three centuries from now. I feel it. Im trying to hold my breath because what
we have in front of us, Our Lady, I dont want this to end. Do you? Who wants
this moment to be over? Were in a dream. And Our Lady is getting louder. Her
voice is getting stronger. When the Secrets come out, youre going to have
everyone echoing what Ive been talking to you about. And thats good.
Our Lady
wants to take our hands because She holds the world. She showed St. Catherine
at Rue de Bac the whole world in Her hands. But the hands She has today is us
who are Her extended hands. I cant get enough of Our Lady. Never will you get
enough. And Shes here to give more than we can ever handle.
[SONG:
NEVER ENOUGH]
I'm trying
to hold my breath. Let it stay this way, can't let this moment end. You set off
a dream in me.
Getting louder now. Can you hear it echoing? Take my hand, will you share this
with me?
All the shine of a thousand spotlights, all the
stars we steal from the night sky will never be enough. Never be enough. Towers
of gold are still too little. These hands could hold the world but it'll never be enough. Never be enough.
For me. Never,
never. Never, never. Never, for me. For me. Never enough, never enough, never
enough for me. For me. For me.
All the
shine of a thousand spotlights, all the stars we steal from the night sky will
never be enough. Never be enough. Towers of gold are still too little. These
hands could hold the world but it'll never be enough.
Never be enough.
For me.
Never, never. Never, never. Never, for me. For me. Never enough, never, never. Never
enough, never, never. Never enough for me. For me. For me. For me.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
What will
we do when Our Lady is gone with the daily apparitions? If Our Lady has to
appear every year, once a year, for the visionaries who lost the apparitions,
because they cant survive, do you think were going to if Our Lady just leaves
in this blessing every day that is containing satan,
manifesting his secrets? That with Her secrets that will cancel them, that
Shes not going to be back with us? Just as the
visionaries cant survive after seeing Our Lady for decades, we cannot, in this
world, and the way it is, and the way its structured, survive without a new
presence of Our Lady on the earth. Thats the efficacy Ive been telling you
about. We witnessed it yesterday. Were conveying it to you for the witness.
Because our
life is good here on earth. Is it easy? No way. Our bishop told us once that he
thought the hardest working people in the world were the Cenacolo,
Sister Alvira. But he had the opportunity to witness
our work for several days and he said, I didnt think there was anybody on the
face of the earth, basically, that could outwork them. We kill ourselves, we push ourselves for the love of building the
kingdom because were limited in the time of grace to make things better on
earth.
But do you
know what our position is and what we do in this witness? Its for unbelievers.
We want them to feel the grace of conversion. And many times
weve witnessed this. We have to help them carry their
burden. They come from totally dysfunctional families. Theyre scarred. They
have no resilience. I remember years ago, we had three people who went to
Medjugorje with us. Two of them were men. One was a woman. The two men had
alcohol problems, rough lives, difficult things. The woman was accompanying
them trying to help them. They had been alcoholics for a long time. They
damaged their lives. Both of them have gone on to
eternity. But we prayed for them. We witnessed to them. They went through
conversion. The grace of what we projected in bringing them to Medjugorje and
others changed their lives.
You have a
responsibility for these hearts that are broke. You have to
help them carry their burden. And a lot of things that we do, the weight we
carry, often is too heavy to carry. But we cant let go. We cant stop our
work. We cant stop witnessing. We cant stop praying. Our Lady is calling you
to do the same thing. Thats what our witness is about. No matter how much it
hurts, you have to continue.
Were doing projects to be ready for the
secrets, for the onslaught, carrying a burden for people in the future, that
they will feel the grace of what we do today, or last year, or ten years ago,
to be ready for when the time comes when the flames of Heaven and the secrets
come down, everything is there. We will be with our brother. Well be sitting
with them. Well be able to help them. Well bring a smile to them. They will
feel the burden lifting because were taking that on our shoulders now. Thats
what Caritas Community is about. We work through the night many times. Im not
saying this bragging but Im telling, these people here that Our Lady has
gathered is such an important part of Our Ladys plans for a window for what
people should be doing in the future, that She speaks to us so clearly
yesterday. So it is up to you to be carrying the
burden of those who cant carry their own.
[SONG:
BURDEN]
Let me
carry your burden. If somethin' ain't
right, I will let you know. Like the paint that's drying on a heart that's
broke let me carry your burden.
Get you
back on a high when you're feeling low when the weight's too heavy
but you won't let go.
Come to me,
my brother, and I will sit with you awhile. Pretty soon I'll see you smile and you know you will. No matter how much you're
hurting right now you know that everything will change in time. So let me carry your burden. Let me carry your burden.
When your
mouth's on fire but your mind is cold and you're fanning flames that won't keep
you warm.
Come to me,
my brother, and I will sit with you awhile. Pretty soon I'll see you smile and you know you will. No matter how much you're
hurting right now you know that everything will change in time. Let me carry
your burden, oh brother mine.
Let me
carry your burden. Come tomorrow you'll be right as rain. It'll quench your
fire, wash away your stains.
Yes it will, yeah.
And come to
me, my brother, and I will sit with you a while. Pretty
soon I'll see you smile and you know you will (yes,
you will).
Oh it don't matter how much you're hurting right now. You know that everything
will change in time. I just might see it in another life.
I got no dog here in the fight. I could carry your burden, oh brother mine. I
could carry your burden. I could carry your burden. Let it go, carry your
burden. Oh, yes I can, yes I can.
[A FRIEND
OF MEDJUGORJE]
For some of
you who have visited, you know that on Sunday nights the Community prays for my
week and my wifes week, and they pick a message at the end of the Rosary. Our
Lady wasnt finished at apparition time yesterday at 11:40 when She appeared.
She continued to enforce that Im speaking to you, My Motherly efficacy is
trying to reach you. The 25th message says, with love for the
Kingdom of Heaven My message last night was August 2, 2019. And Our Lady
says, I call you, together with me, to begin to build the Kingdom of
Heaven Is that a coincidence? Is that by chance? That She said that
earlier, on the 25th yesterday at 11:40 and they picked at random
that message? And She ends that message for my week, I offer you the
Kingdom of God
But Our
Lady still wasnt finished to let us know Her thumbprint is on this message
when we ask for a line. Just a line in the message. So
my wifes message said also, my Son who leads souls to the Kingdom from
where He came, the Kingdom of peace and light. Is that by chance? So, Our
Lady reinforces that I am talking to you, I want you
attention. I want all your prayer. I want all your work. I want all your
witness. Ive got plans for you that will be good for you on earth. But you
know what last night? She still wasnt finished. Because in that same message, She says, By life in truth, the kingdom of Heaven
enters into your hearts There She goes again. But Shes still not
finished because She adds to that, and that is the Kingdom of peace, love,
and harmony And that is what we experienced yesterday in the Field.
Something very beautiful that as I talked about earlier, if you could look
through a curtain and see it, you would be really jealous,
a holy jealousy, not evil.
You
remember waking up on Saturday mornings and no school. And you woke up and you
went out and you played. Here it is, these summer days are ending
and we have wide open fields, we do the Rosary. The kids are running around.
What are they doing yesterday? Ten or twelve kids are running around the Tree,
running around the statue, running around the cross. Were taking pictures of
them and its beautiful. Whats the big deal about kids running around? Just
seeing the joy, the laughter, the fun that they were having. They would hold
hands. The little ones would fall and they would cry
and the rest of them kept running. All this when we see these things of scenes
shows that its going good for us. And thats as good as it gets.
Watching
the youth, having free play, open space in pastures on grass just playing.
These kids will remember this very clearly the way theyre being raised. Free
play. Running outside to a world with no fear. They dont know all the
problems. We shield them from these things. These kinds of days yesterday are
what we feel and we have remembrance of them because
its a way of life that Our Lady has given to us that is very, very beautiful.
But what
was so beautiful about yesterday, the kids running around? Because they have a
baby spotted deer running with them, like Bambi. And the baby deer is in the
middle of them. They caught it about a week or two ago. And they think the kids
are a herd of deer. Wherever they run, the deer is in the middle of it. It was
so beautiful watching this. How many people get to live this way? People arent
given the opportunity for that because whats in their hand blocks it.
Our Lady
said yesterday, Little children, witness with the Rosary in hand that you
are mine I was out today this morning thinking about this message
yesterday. I carried the Rosary in my hand. Everybody out there listening to
this, you put the rosary in your hand, you put your stupid cell phone in your
purse or your pocket. Our Lady wants us now witnessing with the Rosary in hand
that you are mine. Because when people see the Rosary, theyre not going to say
what that it. They know thats that Mary people. Let them make fun. Let them
reject it. Let them accept it. Whatever. It doesnt matter. Our Lady says, Live
my messages. And this is something that you can do. Are you going to do
this? Every day, every mall you go to, every place you shop, everywhere you go,
you put the Rosary in your hand and let people see it.
Just think
of everybody listening to this, everybody thats gone to Medjugorje, decides that
theyre going to put the Rosary in their hand and carry it. Even if youre not
praying. Even if youre pulling things off the shelves for groceries you can
wear it around your wrist and the Rosary is identified because, witness
with the Rosary in hand that you are mine She wants that to be there.
Like what She told St. Catherine with the Miraculous Medal to wear it around
the neck. Here is something easy for you to live. Are you embarrassed to do
that? If you are, its not going to be as good as it gets. We have a life that is
very difficult, but when its good, its as good as it gets.
[SONG: AS GOOD
AS IT GETS]
Remember
the joy that would come without warning. Opened your eyes, woke you up on a
Saturday morning. I remember running outside to a world with no fear. Wide open
spaces and summers that lasted for years, I remember it clear.
These days
all I feel is a longing all too real.
You take my
eyes off of the future, You lead my heart out of the
past, You are the promise here in the moment where I find my rest. You are as
good as it gets.
There have
been days that I wished would be over. No margin to give just the strength to
roll over. I remember thinking that all my best days were behind me. Tomorrow
would come rushing in like some kind of prince
charming. I remember it clear.
But these
days what I feel in the struggle You are real.
You take my
eyes off of the future, You lead my heart out of the
past, You are the promise here in the moment where I find my rest. You are as
good as it gets.
You make it
easy, You make it easy.
You take my
eyes off of the future, You lead my heart out of the
past, You are the promise here in the moment where I find my rest. This is as
good as it gets.
[A FRIEND OF
MEDJUGORJE]
We can say that
in a prayer. You take my eyes off of the future, You
lead my heart out of the past, You are the promise here in the moment where I
find my rest. You are as good as it gets. Oh Mary, thank You for yesterday,
today, and for us to have a tomorrow. Pray for us. Be with us.
We wish you
Our Lady. We love you. Good night.
[THEME MUSIC]
[ANNOUNCER]
This ends the Radio WAVE broadcast with a Friend of Medjugorje. These broadcasts
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