Truth of the Spirit and Patti Brunner presents “Letting Go of Yesterday’s Pain, Mistakes and Regrets”. Letting go of regrets helps let go of internal chaos and “Work Through the World’s Chaos to Find Supernatural Peace”. The non-scriptural words of the Lord shared are private revelation through the charism of prophecy. As always, we encourage you to discern them. For video, audio, and written script please continue reading.
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The Lord told me to share with this with you: ‘Today’ is the eternal moment. ‘God is’ today. Fear not tomorrow, regret not yesterday; this is the day the Lord has made; rejoice and be glad in it. ‘Today’ is full of many important pulls of focus. Each second of each moment reveals a need. But you need to know that daily your spirit cries out for nourishment just as the rest of the body seeks its own needs to be met. The needs of the people around us also want us to nourish them—to share what we have been given, freely, and to provide according to our occupation and vocation. Yet—does the tail wag the dog or does a dog wag his tail? When you take a day apart by seconds and minutes—to whom does the time belong to?” Psalm #118:24 says, “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad of it.” NAB
Welcome to Truth of the Spirit. I am your host, Patti Brunner. Today is: “Letting Go of Yesterday’s Pain, Mistakes and Regrets” We are going to let go of internal chaos as we “Work Through the World’s Chaos to Find Supernatural Peace”.
The Lord tells us, “Each day is given as an opportunity of a clean slate. No matter what worries or fears or anxieties rest in yesterday, today is clothed in hope.” Okay, so our first order of business, perhaps, is to let go of the worries, fears and anxieties of yesterdays. “Letting Go of Yesterday’s Pain, Mistakes and Regrets” that certainly sounds like an opportunity for inner healing. And the Lord says, “What is inner healing but a way to approach memories that are painful for a number of reasons.”
I have given a lot of talks and workshops on Inner Healing and have prayed for many people whose current physical problems were based on the stress of hurts of the past. The Lord says, “Usually someone who is supposed to be the encourager inflicts the most damage in children.” So, how do we let go of these things? How to we let go of “Internal Chaos”? How do we find God in our darkness, in our night? The Lord says, “When the moon rises and the sun sets in the sky it is quite apparent that night is upon you. What else is a clue?” Well, you can see the stars! The Lord says, “With joy I light up the night in the northern, southern, western and eastern skies as far as the eye can see and beyond. When you are in the throes of personal darkness know that then, too, I do not abandon you to darkness but always have provision for you.” The Lord says, “Do the storm clouds hide these night lights? Yes, but hidden only from view just as the sun is hidden from view until the next sunrise.” The Lord says, “Come to Me dearest children and I will blow away even the clouds from your hope and desire of peace and salvation. You are not alone. You are never abandoned.”
Psalm 23 reminds us: “Even though I walk through the darkest valley I fear no evil; for you are with me.” NAB
Let’s talk about “Letting Go of Yesterday’s Pain, Mistakes and Regrets”. The Lord says, “All children make mistakes. It is a part of a learning process. Learning by failures from time to time also brings more appreciation when things are done correctly and for proper motive.
The Lord says, “When a mistake is sinful, and we repent, repentance allows not only for sorrow in doing some action or failure to take action” but repentance then causes “a desire to shift your choices to avoid similar mistakes.”
The Lord says, “Repentance and regret seem to be the same but the major difference is that with regret there is no change made to behavior to avoid similar mistakes. Regret only poisons the mind through memory of the failure. If you regret your choice of marriage partner it is difficult to find happiness because you do not act to change your heart. If you regret your choice of a car, each time you take it on a trip you will find fault with it. Regret is a strong emotion.” The Lord says, “A mistake is much more easily overcome. Mistakes are more easily forgiven especially when admitted.” So, repent the wrong choices you may have made and ask the Lord to change your heart to find peace with the consequences the choice brings about.
Paul writes in 2 Corinthians Chapter 7 “10 For to be distressed in a way that God approves leads to repentance and then to salvation with no regrets; it is the world’s kind of distress that ends in death.” NJB
The Lord told me, “Jesus sacrificed his life on the cross to bring peace to those tormented by regret. Surrender of the regret allows the healing to take place, then grace overcomes the regret and peace takes its place in your heart.”
It is then that “joyful anticipation will be above worry” in your heart. The Lord said, “Joyful anticipation” is about HOPE! When you read the sacred Scriptures and the witnesses of the saints and holy men and women and see what the Lord has done, you can then hope that what the Lord has done for others He will also do for you. Whether it is a need: for healing or a family or mercy or eternal life!”
Scripture shares that God does not ‘play favorites’. St. Paul said in Romans 2: 11, “There is no partiality with God.” NAB “What He does for one He does for all.” The Lord said, “The Salvation of the Cross was for all mankind for all generations. Hope reigns supreme because of this truth. When someone worries because of mistakes made, the hope of redemption of that sin– the truth is known– the hope of reconciliation leads the repentant heart toward the grace of reconciliation and the truth becomes fact for the repentant heart.
“To confess your sin to Jesus through His ordained priest causes a momentary worry of embarrassment but the joyful anticipation of peace through forgiveness urges the sinner to set aside the worry.
“All prayer can fall into the category of joyful anticipation even in sad situations.”
The Lord said, “When a loved one is sick and you worry about treatment and recovery, the peace that surpasses all understanding can enter the heart by communicating with God and surrendering with hope and trust. Is everyone healed in this world? Is every one rescued? Reading the lives of the martyrs would seem to be a big ‘No”.” Yet “in joyful anticipation of eternal peace and joy the martyrs bravely accepted their deaths and offered their pain and separation from loved ones to embrace eternity with God.”
Let’s discuss “Inner Healing—Taking out yesterday’s garbage”. The Lord said, “Although I created man to love one another, when sin entered the world through freewill so did the lack of loving the way I love.” The Lord said, “Often, since there are flaws in people—sometimes caused by a cycle of flaws through many generations—my people inflict harm on one another. This harm then festers and if not healed quickly can form a sort of scar tissue that shuts off the pain centers around the hurt. This can deaden the soul. This can block the heart from loving and from being loved.” The Lord said, “My grace can penetrate even the ‘rock hard heart’ through prayer and surrender.Like a surgeon who cuts out a tumor I can remove the accumulated garbage by revealing Truth. What truth? That this person is my Child, that my Love is real, and that I love them and my love does not rely on them acting loveable.” The Lord says, “What blocks my grace? Free will refusal. It does not mean that I have stopped loving them!
Jesus told me: “A simple way to penetrate these wounded hearts that are full of garbage that was dumped by others is through forgiveness. Forgiveness does not require agreement with the garbage. It does not require acceptance of the garbage. It only believes that I took the garbage to the Cross.” Jesus said, “I offer forgiveness to the one who spread the garbage in your heart in the first place and I ask you to cooperate with me in forgiveness toward them. How wonderfully freeing it is to dump garbage out of your heart and allow God’s peace to refresh and renew. Then the repair can take place.”
The Lord says, “Regrets can accumulate as garbage. Let’s recycle that regret into a witness.” The Lord says, “Witness the negative, the conversion, the metanoia, the benefit, the blessing of others by the experience. Like a recycling compost bin, time is needed to allow it to dissolve into something useful. When you stir it up to expose certain elements to the light, you can stir up a ‘stink’ but exposure helps the resolution. Rather than decay it begins to be seen as rich nutrient and life giving as it takes on the character of rebirth in the recycle process.” Ask the Lord to help you dump the garbage in your heart or to recycle it into something useful. In Ecclesiastes Scripture reminds “There is nothing new under the Sun.” God says in Revelation: “I take all things and make them new.”
The Lord says, “There is nothing that brings home the reality of life and death like the death of a close family member or friend. Grief is an emotion that soothes the heart as loss is experienced. It allows recall of the life of a beloved. In the natural, when you lose something valuable you search for it until it is found—and you call your neighbors in to celebrate the finding. In the loss of a person, you call your neighbors in to mourn the loss with you.”
Sharing your grief with others and receiving their comfort contributes to inner healing, as does the recognition, the acknowledgement, of “finding your beloved in heaven”, where there is “eternal bliss”, this “can lessen the pain of separation—the knowledge that you will be together again, and prayers for your beloved gives aid, spiritual aid.”
The Lord said, “Usually when a person cannot seem to heal after a large amount of time the grieving person has regret or attachment. Where do you place your trust? In God? Or in your beloved? By grace, transfer your dependence to God and you will have the strength to be comforted not just by your neighbors but by God.” Isaiah 25: 1 says: “The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces.” NAB
We can let go of internal chaos by having a “fruitful encounter with God.” The Lord told me, “People have learned about the 7 sacraments in their catechism classes but have forgotten that the sacrament’s outward sign is an opportunity of an inner encounter with the Living God. When there is inner chaos there is a lacking in the encounter on their part.” The Lord said, “I certainly am not the one who has limited my graces.”
As we look back, even in our own lifetimes, God has given the world special opportunities for grace. “The Year of Mercy, The Years of Preparation for the Great Jubilee, The Year of the Great Jubilee — each saw an outpouring of tremendous graces to bring healing to (His) people but if they do not stand near the ‘Waterfall’ they cannot get wet.”
What do we need to do? The Lord says, “Ask. The smallest request for my Presence will provide permission of your freewill for Me to enter.
“Each sacrament is designed to pour out tremendous graces on those who ask by stepping forward to receive.” The Lord says, “Woundedness, unforgiveness, anger, disobedience each limit My grace—even to the point of no benefit. The heart most closed,”the Lord said, “is the lukewarm heart who only goes through the motions of receiving the sacraments ‘for show’. One of the main reasons that marriages are in trouble today is that” the Sacrament of Marriage has been “given to people in the state of sin with unrepentant hearts.”
The Lord said, “Holy Eucharist is meant to be the most intimate of all the encounters with God on earth; to become one with the Living God. The Lord said, “My Bride has taken other lovers and thus brings filth to receive My precious gift. What other lovers? What distracts you? What sinful barriers are like a contraceptive to our union with God? Are you full of judgment against others?”
The Lord says, “How many of My children avoid the fruitful encounter of Reconciliation? How many make it a ‘quickie encounter’ of a rote list of sins repeated each year instead of truly opening their hearts to be vulnerable with Me? Cannot you see how I long to forgive you and take your repentance and cleanse you with My grace to purify your heart that I might be one with you without any reserve?” The Lord said, “Only My encounter with you in Baptism allows light to come to darkness and dissipates it—but the grace, if it is cast aside for sin or forgotten by not allowing the metanoia to take place becomes an encounter of sorrow rather than the glory that is intended.”
The Lord said, “My presence is available. Come to Me and bear the fruit of My grace.
What life changing events have brought Chaos into your life? Certainly the answers could include death, a move, a job change or loss. These are major moments in the lives of many of you listeners. But answer me this, has sin ever been a life changing moment in your life? Has the sin of others—perhaps abuse or coercion to sin changed everything and stolen your peace? Have you done something yourself perhaps an abortion, stealing from others, used illegal drugs that caused your life to spiral out of control? How do you overcome that chaos?”
The Lord says, “With the sacrament of reconciliation comes the grace for healing to take place and peace to overcome Chaos. When others have harmed you, the only way to overcome the chaos is through forgiveness. In the sacrament of reconciliation share your witness of both the cause of the chaos and how it has affected you.” The Lord says, “This witness of truth will set you free. When you agree to forgive those who have ‘sinned against you’ you bind your chaos to the cross of Jesus. Jesus forgave us and all who nailed him there. In this forgiveness he did not accept the sins of others; he did not ‘tolerate’ their sins through compassion. No, in mercy he took their punishment. In love He forgave them and, as he told the adulterer, to go and sin no more.”
Repent doesn’t just mean to have sorrow for your action. To repent also means to change. The Lord says, “The witness of repentance is also a life changing action. “Metanoia” is a Greek word for this life change. It is a reversal of a life of sin and unforgiveness to a life of mercy and love.
In another podcast I have shared some helpful tools to help you to overcome unforgiveness. But for now, please know that internal healing is rooted in accepting and giving forgiveness.
The Lord says, “Sometimes people, who are open to the Lord’s love, have a moment that they know that they know that God loves them.” I pray for you, dear listeners that you will have this awareness. My husband had a moment like this and he was instantly healed of a lifelong depression. I had a moment like this and I felt I had transitioned from a black and white world into a Technicolor world.
“So what about the chaos: from moving, from job loss, from death? The Lord says, ‘Trust Me!” He is with you. He will change your tears to laughter. He will never forget you. As I said in my last show “Trust is key!” And, as the Lord says, “the key of trust unlocks supernatural peace that surpasses all understanding!
“Remember that the peace that surpasses all understanding cannot be formed “logically” just as love cannot be taught like reading and writing. The fruits of the love”The Lord said, “can be explained and the works of mercy can be assigned but you cannot assign people to love. Love can grow, it can be nurtured, it can be quenched, but it cannot be replaced on a shelf. Love is a gift from God—it is the participation in the depth of God. And it is this participation in the depth of God that brings the peace that surpasses all understanding.”
We can have “mountain top experiences with God. Moses spent time with (God) on the mountain as did Isaiah, physically and spiritually.” On the Mountain of Sinai God gave Moses the 10 Commandments.
“Today’s mountain top does not require us to go to Colorado or Mount Helen, (or Mt. Sinai) what it does require is ‘getting above the complacent and ordinary routine of your lives’.”
The Lord says, “Seeking the Lord when you are in a desperate need is a way to find Him, but the worries of the day can be quite distracting. To sit and listen—whether it is to the quiet whisper or the booming thunderous presence of God— to sit and listen is required to meet with Me on the mountaintop,”the Lord says.
He also said,“The voice of God is also made present through events—Abraham’s willingness to be obedient in the sacrifice of his son; the sacrifice and covenant offered with Elijah, the burning of the commandments by the finger of God to Moses, the call of Paul, and so forth. How can you find your mountain to be with the Lord? He will bring it to you if you seek him with all your heart. The mountain of Horeb in the Old Testament was considered to follow the people of God and foreshadowed the rock of Jesus—the Church. In your local church, go sit in front of the tabernacle—even better, attend an hour of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament and the mountain top will be yours.” The Lord says, “Many people have a unique experience with Me in the midst of a retreat. This happened to both my husband and me. Emptying out the busyness of your life and dedicating a day or a weekend to seek the Lord is a great way for your eyes and ears to be opened to find him.” The Lord says, “Trust me!” He’s not the one who is lost. In fact, He is always at your side. One time a priest commented, “You say you are leaving your mountain-top experience to re-enter the real world, but what you need to understand is that this is the real life. The things you left behind to be here are the imitation.”
The Lord says, “Whether or not you are Catholic, whether or not you believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, come sit before a tabernacle in a Catholic Church. In the bible God made his presence known in the Holy of Holies. The Ark of the Covenant was housed in the tabernacle, the tent, that travelled through the desert with Moses and the People of God. Come let Him make himself known to you, personally. He will help you to empty out the internal chaos within your heart and mind. He will lead you to freedom like he led the people of God to the Promised Land, and He will give you supernatural peace.”
The last point we make today is that ‘The Hike to the Top Through a Rough Path is Part of the Grace Given.’ The Lord said, “When our listeners (can) grasp this final concept on obtaining supernatural peace and overcoming the Chaos of the World, they will find the pearl of great price for which they have sought. They will finally see with the eyes of faith—no easy task no matter how simple the journey could be.” “When a person takes a hike to the top, it helps to travel a trail that has been laid out by design according to the ‘lay of the land’. When the path is well used it is more clearly followed thus avoiding going the wrong way. Sometimes there are many trails that can be taken. What kind of adventure would you choose?” On occasion I have taken the difficult side trails to witness the beauty not otherwise available. “What views call you to take the more challenging trail?” The Lord said, “This is sort of the way of life for some. On the outside it appears to be too difficult a life to find any kind of peace or joy. Ask a parent of a disabled child or one with cancer if they have moments of peace or joy. They do! They have a clearer eyesight into the moments of life.
“Our topic, if you remember, is “Letting go of Internal Chaos”. Internal Chaos is like a rough path on the trail. You know that when you get past the rough part you will find the splendid view. Life has rough spots, too. Did you ever consider that these rough parts could actually lead you to something way above average? God gives us the grace we need to climb over or the patience to work around hardship to get to our destination—short-term and eternal.
““Lead us not into temptation” might be paraphrased ‘Lord, let me not have any rough paths’. What we must realize is that our God is with us in good times and bad, when life is easy and even more so when it is hard. His grace is sufficient.
“But remember, sometimes going through the rough paths with God’s graces take us to see something we would have missed on the ‘easy’ trail. And our experience opens our eyes to discover we need God’s help. We discover God loves us and will not abandon nor leave us.
The Lord says, “How do we accept God’s grace, his help? The answer should be familiar to you if you listened to this series.
“The sources of evil in the world constantly combat to turn you aside from the duties and joys of the Lord. Look not upon the negative but always have hope in your eyes, for then in comparison, you will see how the Lord’s will overcomes to bring forth His will even as ‘bad’ times seem to explode.
“When there is doubt—find a way to trust the Lord in some way. Soon the doubt vanishes and Trust will strengthen within you. When there is turmoil,” the Lord says, “find something that is peaceful in your life or in the world and look to it for comfort. In the peace you will know God’s presence and your heart will know peace. When you fear,” the Lord says, “look for courage in small matters. When you worry—know that I have been taking care of you and rely on this.” The Lord says, “When you want to deny My love—stop and read My Word and know that it is truth and light and that it dispels all despair if you will only take a small step towards Me, for it is then that I take you up on eagle’s wings.”
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