August 6, 1996 & August 8, 1996

8/6/1996

Many times of hardship has come into your life My little one. Through all of it, you continued to reach out and grasp the key. The key being My heart and you grew and continue to grow ever near to Me through your reading of Scripture, your kindness to others, and your open heart to always respond to My call to you to help others. For this My dear child in Christ, I open the doors. In my mind, I am being shown a book opened up and the pages are flipping through the book to the end of the book. You shall use My words to go forth and teach others of My love and compassion and the importance of My love. For it is only through this that others can attain the key to eternal paradise, the Kingdom of Heaven.

8/8/1996

As I read Thessalonians: 5 this day, a prayer card used as a bookmark falls out. I read this prayer daily as I read Scripture. I have found incredible peace and guidance that comes to me through this prayer. This simple yet powerful prayer card was purchased from Our Lady of Lourdes Gift Shop located in Euclid, OH.

PRAYER IN TIMES OF ECONOMIC HARDSHIP
Heavenly Father, it is symptomatic of our life today that economics plays a large part in it. People labor zealously for a wage so that they can acquire the needs of life. They also work for the so-called luxuries of life, for the opportunity to have more leisure to develop themselves in more ways, and to keep up with their particular state of life.
Right now I find myself in a bad economic condition. I just cannot seem to make enough money to meet my obligations. Please help me in this dangerous situation. Teach me to live within my means while at the same time striving to increase those means. Let me never lose heart but continue to work on. Most of all, inspire me to seek first your kingdom in the knowledge that everything else will be given me together with it.