![]() He came and suffered for us – and he would do it all over again if needed. I understand that thinking about Jesus’ intense suffering and accepting that he did this for us is a bitter pill to swallow. To begin, we must acknowledge that all true healing is only available through Jesus’ stripes – his wounds. I hope you find them useful on your journey. Many of my LIVE statements fit in perfectly with today’s readings so I thought I would share a bit of this with you today. LIVE Language is verbiage that brings about transformation and healing. If you are familiar with my work then you may be familiar with the term LIVE Language. LIVE Language (Love is Victorious Everywhere) I am experiencing this heartache with my middle daughter right now. When was the last time you wanted something good for your child, yet, you had to sit back and allow them to make their mistakes. If you are a parent yourself I am sure you can relate. God loves us too much to force anything upon us – even if something is for our good. The love in Jesus’ heart called him to absorb our pain, yet, God gave us free will and we must actively surrender our pain to Jesus Christ. The old Beatles song “Love Is All You Need” is indeed true. The healing balm mankind needs is found in the Sacred Heart of Jesus – the seat of divine love. “…with his stripes we are healed” – Isaiah 53:5. We must unite our pain with his, it is the right place to lay it down. We are not that powerful and this is why we need an eternal savior – Jesus Christ. All of our human pain is beyond our ability to heal it. Our sins are beyond our human ability to transform and heal them. Every one of our sins became manifest in him, and this is where our Triune God wants us to place our wounds. In his body – his entire body his physical, emotional, and spiritual body, he experienced every wound of mankind. He came and suffered for all of humanity. This way is Jesus Christ himself – through his wounds. If Jesus’ words are true, and they are, then there is a way through our pain and brokenheartness. “…For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” – Matthew 11:30 Human Pain When hard times happen a big part of me wants to crawl up in a ball and fall into deep sadness. In an attempt to be vulnerable here I want to share something with you – it is very hard for me to escape my tendency towards depression and receive real healing when things get tough. (Like right now, my mother’s heart is breaking – again). Does this sound hard or impossible? I suppose it often does – it certainly sounds hard to me when things get rough. In order to receive real healing we must find a way to release our pain and move beyond it. We all seek wholeness and healing for ourselves, for our loved ones, and for the world. It can be tough being human… However, we have a place to go for respite that is eternally available to us – God’s Sacred Heart. Each and every one of us has experienced both love and the absence of love. This is where we can go for true healing, the seat of love itself. John 1:1-3Īnd this is why the Sacred Heart of Jesus is so precious and powerful – it is the heart of God in both human and divine form. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. His eternal love for humanity is found in the Sacred Heart of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity – Jesus Christ. God is eternal and his love for us is eternal as well. His love for us called him into the “human experience”. You see, God loved us so much that he had to come down and live with us – fully God and fully human in every way except sin. Today we celebrate the Sacred Heart of God – the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. God’s steadfast love never wanes and it never wavers. Even when we fall short and sin, his love remains. Our God is a God full of tender love for his children – always has been and always will be. ![]() If anyone ever tells you that the God of the Old Testament is an angry wrathful God then I invite you to point them to today’s first reading. ![]() Yet, God’s heart remained full of love for them. “My heart is overwhelmed” – the words God spoke to Hosea when he gazed upon his children, children, who up until this point had expressed indignant, and rather blatant, disobedience and rebellion towards God.
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