December 1999

Mary:

My dear little ones, peace be with you. I greet you with joy, for this is a joyful season, a season of hope, a season of renewal, a season during which you remember the birth of our Savior. You celebrate this and remember that He came into the world as a meek child. He Who would be King of Kings and Lord of Lords, He Who would be the salvation of all, came to earth with such humility, such obedience, such beautiful, perfect love for you. Rejoice in this! Celebrate with the choirs of Angels and the Saints of Heaven. Know that I come to you in a special way with the blessings of the Infant Christ.

Dear ones, I see fit to remind you at this time of year, when you meditate upon His nativity, to be as little children when you come before your Father in Heaven. To be as little children is to be meek, to be humble, to be filled with a contrite heart and a desire to love, to know, and to grow. Do not come before God in fear, do not come before Him with anger, do not come before Him with anxiety- these things should not cross your mind. If you truly hoped in the Lord, you would not let these things stay in your mind for a moment but dismiss them as quickly as they come into your mind. Your heart would be filled with gladness and joy, for you would know that the Father in Heaven takes care of you as He cares for no other creation on earth. You would have no anxiety and no worry. You would have no fear, for not even death itself can overcome you. There would be no need for you to feel anything but a great peace and a great joy before Him. Come before Him, as little children come before their father, before their mother. With trusting eyes and a trusting heart, they reach out to them, imploring their love, desiring their assistance.

My little ones, children have the purest of hearts. They have no need, no desire, no want for material goods other than that which is provided to them by their mother and father, who are to them all of the world. I ask you to do the same. Have no need for material goods, for the wants of this world, for all of those things that can distract you here, but rather, have need for all that the Father provides to you. Look to Him as the Father Who is all good things. Look to Him as the One Who provides all that you need, trustingly, with the knowledge that He will give to you all that is good, that He will not abandon you, that He will not forsake you, but that He will lead you into a perfect peace and a perfect unity with Him.

Be as little children. Go out into the world with a desire to love, for what little child does not desire to do good, though oftentimes they are misguided? My dear ones, you who are parents know. You understand how it is to teach a little child what is right, to walk, to grow with that little child, to see in that child the spark of faith, the spark of hope, and the spark of joy. You know that in their eyes you can do no wrong. You are unfailing. It is the same with God. He is unfailing. He alone is perfection. Though you will make many mistakes in your life, God will never, ever, err. He is perfect love. All that He does comes from His love. All that He is, is love. All that shall ever be through Him, is love.

Dear little ones, reflect on the birth of Christ. Reflect on how it is that He came into this world as a helpless infant born to a simple woman, given to all of the world in a place unknown, at a time unknown. The King of All Nations came into the world, not crowned and clothed in royal garb, but swaddled in mere cloth, lying in a place where animals fed. Dear ones, He was born to parents who, like you, loved Him, love Him still, desire for Him all good things. I walked with Him, and I taught Him. I showed Him the love of God. I taught Him to obey, to be meek and to be humble, to follow the law of God and subject Himself to it, for God His Father, your Father, He is with you. He requires so very little of you, only that you turn to Him with love, that you continue to do all that you do with love, and that in your failures you come and reconcile before Him. I raised the Christ Child as my own little boy, with full knowledge that He was the Son of God, the Son of the Most High, and when I beheld my own infant Son, I looked into the eyes of my own Savior, my own Redeemer, and I worshiped and adored Him.

Dear ones, do worship and adore the Christ Child this day, and always, in your heart! Keep Him in your heart. Invite the Lord into your life. Be as He was, meek and humble, long-suffering and kind, patient among tribulations, desiring all that is good, coming in a way that is more beautiful than that of splendor, than that of riches, than that which is known to this world of materialism that is like a plague on this earth. Come in simplicity to the Lord. Do not bother, do not bother with anxieties. Do not let worries encompass you. Do not let all things, all things that trouble you, envelop your soul, depress your spirit, keep you from the Father in Heaven, but rejoice this day! Give all things to Him and let go of them. Place them in His care and let Him work through you, work in your life, change you and mold you into that which He desires you to be, His perfect creation, a model of His love, and an image of His Own heart.

Dear little ones, I ask you in a special way today, to pray for those who do not know my Son as you know Him, for those who have not seen His love and mercy in their life, who have turned their faces away, for they desire not to know Him as you have known Him, as you have been gifted to know Him. God has gifted you with faith. He has given to you the most precious of all things, for a life lived without faith, it is no life at all. This is a season for you of hope, but for many it is not a season of hope, for they do not know that the Christ Who is salvation, Who is redemption, awaits them, beckons to them, calls to them, and desires their love, for they are loved. All people of God are loved and nothing you can do, not by your own will, not by any deed, not by any word, can remove the love of God from you, for you will be loved until the end of time.

You will be loved for all ages, for God has created you as His own children. What father forsakes his son? What mother abandons a child? Know the Lord our God is goodness and truth and beauty, and He is with you all the days of your life. Praise Him. Glorify His name. Be as the Christ Child. Be an example and a light of holiness in this world. Be a beacon in the darkness, that those who have not had the gift of faith that you have received, the hope that you embrace in this season of joy, might see the light of Christ through you and might embrace Him with the fullness of their hearts.