Actual Excerpt From 1 Of My Journals Dated 1/15/1996 @ 10:35PM

I exercised later than usual last night. While I was reading Holy Spirit prompted me to search through a few journals for this particular entry after I returned home. You will notice a pattern when I share my actual journal entries, I wrote them in a letter form to the Lord and would sign them. Sometimes I signed them my given full name and other times the shortened version of my first name. You may wonder why there is a section that is blacked out in this particular entry. That is because back then when I was writing I was very Catholic and truly thought I was hearing from Mary the mother of Jesus. As I grew in my walk with Jesus, Holy Spirit had me in a season of my life go back and strike out my writing that made mention of me hearing or receiving words from Mary. I then had knowledge that it was actually Holy Spirit and Jesus speaking to my heart and showing me things. As a Catholic I can see as I look back now how I would have been drawn to the Catholic figure of Mary that is very pronounced in the church. I am a woman/mom and it was probably easy for me to connect with the image of Mary as a mother figure if that makes sense.
As I was going through a few journals now Holy Spirit was highlighting a few of the entries to me so you may see some more of my actual entries in the days to follow. I trust the words spoken to my heart over 20 years ago may be a now word for this very time we are living in. I loved these precious times I spent communing with Holy Spirit and Jesus. I love my times now but there is something different with that season in my life. It was as if everything was new and fresh to me. I was definitely being awakened by God in my life.
This is interesting, I notated on this particular entry that I spoke with one of my spiritual advisers (the Catholic Church connected me with) Fr Al on 5/28/1996. I just love these journal entries for I find hidden nuggets like this as I would jot them down. I think I shared once with you all the letter I sent to a Rabbi thanking him for allowing me to attend a service at his synagogue. Do you think I should send a follow up letter to the Rabbi and let him know I discovered I am 2% European Jewish. What are the odds that the same Rabbi would still be at that very synagogue location? I love to ponder about things like this. I guess that is the quirky side of me.