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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 25^th 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 25^th 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 25^th, 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 25^th 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 25^th 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 25^th 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 are available as CDs which are sent directly to your doorstep on a monthly subscription. For information, contact Caritas in the U.S. at (205) 672-2000.