The Father's House and the other "visions" that came to me to write down are included in this Section of the website. (A vision is not necessarily visual but can also be a description as it is in this case). It came after a long period of praying to better know The Father who is the Creator of heaven and earth and all of life. I was so filled with love as I received this. It came in two sections: My Father's House which was very symbolic and then The Interpretation which made the symbolism so clear. I found my place in His House is as a doorkeeper. One who should stand ready to open doors for people both on earth and inner doors that only God opens for us to enter His Presence and heavenly states of "Being".
I talk more bout what "Being" really is in "Meetings of the Mind" on this website.
MY FATHER'S HOUSE
What is my Father’s House made of? It is made of the cedars of Lebanon for cross beams.
It is surrounded by the vine and the branches are strong
It is in a grove of olive trees
It is made of living stones
The corner stone is the Son of God.
The banner flows high over the house. it is the banner of love.
All who enter are welcomed by the door keeper.
There is a court yard for the children to play in.
There are roses everywhere.
In the interior there is marble and brass, high ceilings and much glass.
The choir sings an infinite song.
The birds fly in and out between the gables,
The roof beams are strong and rest on the capstone.
There is a sign of glory about the house.
There are rich appointments in the house--many treasures, heavy carpets, rich rugs.
The vault of the ceiling is high.
The place is airy and the wind blows through it at will and none can compare with the wisdom that flows through this house.
There are many sections to this house so that all are comfortable in it.
There is a big kitchen.
Tall reeds are planted near it and herbs and medicines grow in the sunshine.
There is a cure for every disease known to man under the sun.
Grapes grow outside.
and none is in need.
Rest is essential in this house.
The rest that God gives to those who live in His mercy.
And the children are blessed all day long.
There is goodness and quiet and nurturing work.
High above the ramparts, the wind blows a song of peace.
It is a gathering song for all to hear to draw them near.
Chimes ring to signal the hours of the day.
All nod at the sound of the bells in keeping with the world wide mission
Eloquent words are spoken and resound throughout the house.
So come now and discern the truth, for to live in this house is a great blessing.
Those bringing in the sheaves will come gladly.
The barn swallow and the owl will rejoice at vespers.
This is my Father’s House where the gentle breeze bloweth and all the words are true.
Come, come high up to see it and higher still to live in it.
Where there is peace and joy.
Strength is in it and love abounds.
The victory is yours for you have heard it.
INTERPRETATION FOR “MY FATHER’S HOUSE”
The cedars of Lebanon are the strong supporters. They support the great cross to be carried. They are committed to giving every kind of support that is needed to carry the work.
The vine is the Lord. He is everywhere needed and spreads quickly to surround every new work of His, the branches He has called and made strong by His presence and in His power.
The grove of olive trees signifies the plenty of God. The oil from the olives provides in great measure. It is the provision of God for His people.
The living stones are the people put in place by the Lord to carry out the work according to His plan and in His ways. Always ready and available to answer His calls and to move in the Spirit with the graces of God, acting in and on them.
Jesus Christ is the corner stone of and for each new work. A building cannot begin nor a foundation be laid without a corner stone. Thus Christ is that for each new “building” the Lord God makes.
The banner flying marks two things: (1) the Lord making His presence known over the “house”, the work being carried out in it a sign of His love and (2) the waving of the banner as the movement of the Holy Spirit over it.
The Lord gathers His people to the work He has laid out. They will take their places as He welcomes them in. They will know their places and will recognize each other in their greetings. The Lord gathers through the saints (Mother theresa). Those who lay out the work or make it happen and those who follow. These saints are the doorkeepers. They lay out the work, the rule, the way to be followed, all in Christ, through Him and with Him in the Unity of the Holy Spirit. (Dorothy Day) saints not yet recogniZed (Catherine Doherty) and many more.
The children come to be blessed and cared for. They are not the workers. The court yard is their place of freedom to grow, in safety and learn of God. To be secure in their faith in Him. Given the materials they need, they are largely self-taught and need only encouragement and love given through wisdom, in the presence of God.
The roses are a sign of the presence of the Blessed Mother holding the children and the workers before God perpetually, in love and waiting upon Him for His interventions as needed.
The roses are also the sign of the blessing and support of St. Theresa, the Little Flower, blessing the work as it proceeds. A shower of roses falling from heaven as she promised.
The interior of each person is signified by the beauty and splendor of God within them. The nobility of Christ alive in them, of each one called to be His dwelling and to live it and be shelter for others.
The marble signifies being carved from the rock, the foundation on which the work is laid, pure and strong, its beauty laid into its grain and its purity in its color--white (or sometimes a more golden or pinkish hue). The brass signifies that this worker is polished, rubbed by life and trials until it shines.
The high ceiling connotes being lifted up into the high places of communion with God in prayer and in actions. Into the recesses of the mind of God. And the glass is the vision God affords to those raised up by Him to see, as God sees and as He would have them see.
The choir is the praise of God, given to those who perpetually sing of His praises, adoring Him and loving Him in all His movements in them and for them, forever, and in the choir of angels perpetually adoring Him.
The birds are the creatures of God’s will, cared for by Him and provided for their every need, free to move with the times and seasons. With the winds of the Holy Spirit, singing their song, in flight, soaring and returning ever to earth to bring new life as they nest in the shelter of the most high. They are part of the sign of glory returning again and again to the work and the workers.
The shelter of the most high God is always and forever over these works of His and the workers, protecting and providing. Shelter set upon the capstone, which is the Christ present as protection and love unending, in the charity of God.
The workers of God are themselves a treasure and they receive treasures from God which they exhibit to others. These may be personal attributes or qualities but also their works of art, music and writings, their crafts and all that they grow in beauty and love. Their example is the heavy carpet on which all may stand and trod. The rich rugs are where people may stand to see the beauty of the worker they have come to admire and learn from.
The workers, gathered together, lifted up together in the Spirit of God in praise, thanksgiving and adoration, form the vault of the high ceiling.
The Mass forms part of this high ceiling. The consecration and adoration are all the perpetual praise being given of God, by God and to God in union with the peoples of faith in their recognition of the sacrifice of the Son and in his resurrection. The wind of the Holy Spirit blows through all the works of God and fills the workers of God in a special way. They are the power and the glory of God in their manifestations of His sovereign acts upon the earth and with them and through them in the fullness of His wisdom and not the wisdom of man apart from Him.
The Father’s house is huge and all encompassing and so all find their rightful place in it, who are called by His Name. They may dwell in peace in it and under it and their comfort is their relationship with God.
The kitchen signifies where God prepares the nourishment's and foods for His people. Some exotic foods are prepared here too to give life and health. To sustain the people in their needs and to enliven their pursuits, especially when they grow weary. The food of God is also medicinal and healing for he soul, which must be fed ever more clarity to bring it closer to God in its under- standings. Filling it with love and wisdom in the sauce of truth that God brews for it. Thus God has a cure for every ill of the mind, the body and the soul.
The grapes signify the wine that is to be pressed from them. The vintage wine from the grapes of God’s house. This is the wine for valor for those who will drink it.
All are given what they need when they need it, out of the storehouse of His riches, so the fullness of His giving is exemplified in all the treasures surrounding and in His house.
The rest of God is the stillness in which He is known. This is the rest for the soul which desires to contemplate God and be ever ready in its movements to respond to Him and be in union with Him, in everything it is and knows and does. Blessed be God in the stillness of God that He gives His children who are blessed all day long by His simple presence to them.
The goodness of God is ever present in the work of His hands as He lays them upon His children and those who work for him and are about His business.
The peace of the Lord is with you who hear His word and write it for others. It is their song being sung and it is the music of the spheres resounding and being carried by the Holy Spirit throughout the world to those who find favor with Him and to those who gather to be near Him.
The angels ring the chimes of the hours, calling all to prayer who will listen to them and hear them. These are the calls to prayer for all in need of God’s pleasures, favors and mercies. The ever present cry of those who ask and receive. The ever present cry of the poor and the sick and the dying.
The bells ring out against the the destruction of humanity, against cruelty and sin, against dishonesty, against rebellion and wars, against man’s intolerance and against His inhumanity to his fellow man, so that the Kingdom of God may come. So that it may be on earth as it is in heaven in the perfect will of God.
God speaks and His children listen and learn from Him and act on the eloquent words He uses to move them in their hearts and souls, as they go about the Father’s business of loving in grace and charity. In the truth of their being they receive as they give and they bless, as they are blessed, living in their Father’s house, in the House of the Lord.
The workers of the fields will bring those they have gathered for the Lord. They will bring them in for healing and blessing and to know the Lord in the fullness of His mercy. Many will come in from the fields to fill the Father’s house, to be welcomed in and to be cherished and taught, given instruction, shown the way and sent out as workers of the fields everywhere. Blessed and strengthened they go and supported by those of the House.
The barn swallow flies by day and the owl is vigilant by night. Each brings its vigilance to the Father’s house to snatch away the spirits of evil that would attack the works of the Lord, devouring those that light upon the workers and their works for God. Vespers is the time of evening and the changing of the guard. Those who will sleep rejoice after the day’s labors and those who awake for the night watch will rejoice in fulfillment of their call.
The Father’s House reaches from the heavens and stretches toward the sun and brings light to the earth. It fills every corner with its goodness and love, sheltering those whom the Lord God wills to protect and bring to Himself.
As the gentle breeze blows so does His Spirit fall upon them as a gentle mantle clothing them in the richness of His glory.
The Father is ever calling from His house, ever calling in, ever singing the gathering song of welcome, ever dispensing peace and joy that are His Strength, permeated with love unending for the victorious life lived under His ramparts.
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A VISION OF HOPE
Picture a world where all children are safe. Where no one would harm a child. Where children are free to grow and learn. To play and sing. To dance and leap into the air. To invent games and play them. To discover, to behold, to make and create, to find. To share and to love. To help one another. To become who they are and to bring to this world the treasures of themselves and their ideas, their talents and all they can be and will do, into the future, enriching the earth with their presence, making way for a new world.
Picture them freed from every kind of bondage, allowed to be and become.
So much laughter. So much hope. So much joy. So much confidence in what could be.
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