Jesus Loves You

There's a theme this month, and today is its Feast Day and that's The Sacred Heart of Jesus. It boggles my mind that we're always SO ready to turn everything in to some selfish, the prayers for this feast are complete self-mortification when the original intent was LITERALLY Jesus saying, "Hey ! I love you ! ! "

As was taught me, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque was a child filled with prayers and love for God, and then was living her best life. She came home from a Carnival ball ! one night, and Jesus shows up ! and he reveals to her his huge heart. He's like, "Remember me?" and she's all, "Ohmuhguh, I'm SO SORRY ! I've forgotten you !", and he's, like, "No way! Stop. It's just, I wanted to show you how much love I have in my heart for you and the entire planet ! There was one time in your life you wanted to devote yourself completely to telling the world about God's love for them, but the path you're on now takes you away from that singular charism ... either way's good, but meanwhile, I love you !"

and so she went in to the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial (where, by all reports she wasn't a very good nun but won Miss Congeniality ever year she was alive), and through her prayers experienced levels of mysticism we're still talking about today (Jesus loved to zap her with hand rays, picture in first comment).

So, Jesus loves you, this I know, for Margaret Mary told me so. xoxo