Lovely garden

January 31 – The Evening Call

Softly at even, comes the footfall of your Master. My day has been long and weary. Hearts that I have yearned over and longed for still withstand Me.

I see the aged, desolate without Me. I see the disappointment of men and women, who in Me would find heart-satisfaction which others cannot give them. I see youth crowding Me out of its work-filled, pleasure-filled days. And yet I wait. I knock, I plead, I call, unheard, unheeded, unwanted.

As I was the link between the Father and men, so now must My followers be the links between man and Me.

Human Love, material aid, human understanding, and friendship must bind those for whom I yearn.

Channels through which My help can flow to man truly you must be, but also the means through which man finds his groping way to Me.

EVENING AND MORNING

O let me hear Thee speaking
In accents clear and still,
Above the storms of passion,
The murmurs of self-will.

O speak to reassure me,
To hasten, or control;
O speak, and make me listen,
Thou Guardian of my soul!

在黃昏時，上主柔和的腳步聲臨到了。我的白晝，是漫長而累人的，我所戀慕和切望的人，他們的心，卻依然反對我！

我看見了那年老、沒有我而孤獨的人；我看見了男女們的沮喪，他們必須在我裡面，才能找到滿足，這滿足，是別人所不能賜給他們的；我看見了年輕人，因天天工作繁多，娛樂充斥，就把我排擠出去了！然而，我仍在等候、叩門、聲訴、呼喚，他們卻是不停、不理，不要我！

我既是天父和人中間的連繫；因此，我的跟隨者也必須是人和我中間的連繫。

人性之愛、物質的幫助、人與人中間的了解和友誼，必須繫牢這些我所戀慕的人。

你們必須成為一條條的導管，由此，我的幫助才能真實地流通到人的身上；而那​​些在生命之路上摸索的人呢，也才能藉著你們找到我。

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求使聞爾言——

求使聞爾言，
奇清而安恬；
超乎我清濤，
己意之喃喃！
祈恢復信心，
催促或約束；
使得聆恩語：
我魂之護命！

“No detail is forgotten in My Plans, already perfect."

All sacrifice and all suffering is redemptive: to teach the individual or to be used to raise and help others.

Nothing is by chance.

Divine Mind, and its wonder working, is beyond your finite mind to understand.

No detail is forgotten in My Plans, already perfect.

O let me hear Thee speaking In accents clear and still, Above the storms of passion, The murmurs of self-will.

O speak to reassure me, To hasten, or control; O speak, and make me listen, Thou guardian of my soul!

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of
peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." – Jeremiah 29:11

苦以濟眾（1月31日）

一切的犧牲，一切的受苦，都具有救贖性，用以教導人，或激勵並幫助別人沒有什麼是偶然的。

神聖的心意極其奇妙作為，遠非你們有限的心思所能了解。

在我的計劃中，一切都已臻至完全，我不會忘記任何細節的。