Love draws Christ and disarms the enemy. That’s the main lesson of life. Patience and charity must exist toward all people. It’s the highest reach of spirituality because, as St. Thérèse of Lisieux said, with acts of love our soul may be quickly consumed and arrive with short delays at the vision of God. When it comes to preventing destruction and delay, Christ tells us what our prophets now tell us also: nothing is more effective than love.

Every morning we should wake up praying for Christ to come and teach us detachment from our egos and how to put love in our hearts. We should always pray for more love, and we should practice love all day—every day—allowing God to manifest in our world and live in our hearts, says Our Blessed Mother. We must first love. We must learn to send blessings on every person during the course of the day. We should send love to the mailman and to the people occupying the elevator. We should send love to our underlings and our bosses. We should love the annoying drivers in front of us on the way home and then show great love for our families the rest of the night.

You see, most of us have spent our lives focused on our own comfort and in so doing have found ourselves restless and unfulfilled because we’re self-centered. We lack peace because we focus on ourselves. That causes us to become impatient with others.

And when we cast forth such aggravation, when we feel negatively towards a person—whether it’s someone we know or someone who’s standing in front of us at the supermarket—it’s like a curse.

When we do that, when we curse, we send malice into the firmament. And with every bit of malevolence, every bit, the world tips closer to war. It also brings us closer to eternal reckoning, for we’re held accountable for every minor or major curse.

On the other hand, when we transmit affection, when we transmit caring, we take a step in the direction of heaven. Loving everyone—no matter how attractive or unattractive, no matter how strange or familiar, no matter how friendly or nettlesome—makes up for past curses. Every time we send out love we erase a past curse.

Love combines in a potent fashion with faith and humility. The more we pray, the more faith we have, because when we’re praying with regularity, we can observe the little ways God answers prayers. Those observations…

God answers prayers and those answered prayers build our faith, so we pray more firmly.

The more we pray, the more faith we develop; the more faith, the more results.

Those who pray little, but expect much, are often disappointed—while those who pray often with firm faith will find themselves astonished.

That’s not to say life becomes a bed of roses. On earth we all must experience both heaven and hell. Life is a grueling test, and once we accept that fact we transcend it. We conquer it. We conquer fear. We offer up suffering, and we are then open to true joy. Because existence really is joyful when we consider the afterlife and the fact that nothing on earth is significant—nothing is too hard—in the light of eternal reward.

Although everyone must go through trials in life, God answers those who are humble because they come to Him as children. When we’re humble, Satan’s arrows wing through thin air and find no target. They find no “self.” In humility is perfect surrender to God. Surrender is the truest end of conversion. Unless we’re converted and approach God as children, as faithful loving children, we don’t gain heaven; instead we nurture evil in the world, which leads to chastisement.

Within the lifetimes of at least some of you reading this, our special time of grace will complete itself. God’s mercy will turn into His merciful justice. However it fits with the End Times, it will be the denouement of our own era. Like denouements during the other episodes, especially during medieval times, it will purge our evil and resemble some prophecies in Scripture. The key word is “prepare.” The message during the reported apparitions in Slovakia might sum it all up. Our Blessed Mother said, “God’s visit is near. Search for love!”

Christ is coming, isn’t He?

Many visionaries use the term Second Coming.

At Christmas, we think particularly about that.

But really, He si always here.

[adapted from Michael H. Brown’s The Day Will Come]