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First step:  pray for inspiration from the Holy Spirit to have an open heart, to hear with your heart, what Jesus might be saying to you personally.

The goal for you, brother or sister in Christ is to:

1. Learn about Jesus.

This leads to building a relationship with Him, alive in your life.

2. Love Him more as you learn about Him. 

This leads to developing a heart of gratitude, complete trust, and happy conformity to Him.

3. Follow Him more closely.

This involves learning how to apply His Life Lessons to your own life.

4. Witness to His presence and activity in my life to others.

This involves a certain enthusiastic energy that comes from being committed to Him as a person, viewing His ways as making life significantly better, seeing this relationship as the most important thing in my life, that my life shifts to reorganize correspondingly.  It also involves being so attached to Him, with loving confidence, that I overcome any shyness or social rejection fears, and just seek to please Him.  In so doing I become more effective, creative, positive and influential with others important to me, and even to new people I meet.  I also learn to create opportunities, so others will also know, love and follow Him.  This does not happen by me only being a “good person”, it happens by transparently living for a specific person they identify to be Jesus.

So, now that you know the goal, let’s implement it. 

Day 1 and thereafter, listen first to the video session, in order.  Make a few notes of what speaks to you and why.  Then, read that section in the Love Letters From Your Father, Gospel of John.  It follows right along with the same verses as in your New Testament.  What is written will amplify the Gospel verses with the history, background, biblical exegesis, teachings of the Fathers of the Church, and interpretation of the Catholic Magisterium (meaning 2,000 plus years’ certain understandings that go straight back to the apostles’ teachings, and their disciples.)  My “Lectio Divina” inspiration adds some details to tie it together in a format for you that reads more like a novel, and will help you follow along.

Read, get set, go!

Pray!

Listen!

Read!

Then take a notebook, date it, write the chapter and verses you listened to and read with today’s date on it, and summarize what it means to you in your life.  How does it speak to you about who Jesus is to you?  And what He calls you toward?  Perhaps what you need to shift.

And ideas?

Write!

Then the rest of the day, think about it from time to time.  At the end of the day, re-read what you wrote.  Any new ideas?

Perhaps consider sharing it with someone you love and trust.  Ready? 

Go share!

Next day—due the same.  Do not worry if some days it does not speak to you as much.  That’s part of the test of you being faithful.  It’s not always milk and honey.  The faithful part is, you believe Jesus’ words to you when He is speaking about prayer requests that conform to His will.  “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

 You are asking, seeking and knocking.  That’s what it’s all about.  Just continue faithfully doing it, and you will reap the benefit of the secrets of the saints.  It is not more complicated than that.  You don’t need to be a scholar.  That’s why I wrote, at the request of Archbishop Tomas Clavel, Panamanian hero bishop who had a heart for simple people.  Not that you have to be simple either, but we do have to be open, “open like a child”, as Jesus said.

You also don’t need to have a tremendous amount of faith, even just a little bit, and God Almighty will intervene in your life and do the rest.  You will see.

This is what happens all the time in the office of my wife, a psychologist, Dr. Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco.  There are times with Christian clients when something beyond herself, her psych tools and beyond what the client has as resources, is needed.  She will invite the client to open to a Scripture in a serendipitous way of faith, meaning not a directed reading, and time after time, it amplifies exactly what was being dealt with in the session, and adds an experience of the nearness, caring and intervening Love of God, of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, ever present and oh so close!  It is astounding, and astounding on a regular basis.

Do you want that for yourself?  You can “get it”, by “getting God”.  Give what I suggest a try, and see for yourself.

God bless you and I will personally pray for everyone who subscribes to a daily reading of “Bible, Love Letters From Your Father, Books of John, Gospel, (Lectio Divina).

If you need further help, you may also contact me for pastoral guidance and spiritual direction via our contact page[WU1] .  This is not about mental health issues, but about spiritual connection with Jesus  and His perspective on issues in your life.

P.S.  I have a number of assorted free resources on this website as well.  Some are short videos of only a couple of minutes, in fact 38 of them entitled: This is God Speaking.  It’s an engaging dramatization about some hot topics.  Perhaps one of them will “hit you” with what you need. 

God bless,

And please feel free to email me with your comments and feedback or sign up for our newsletter with helpful “Life Lessons”.

Having been a foreign mission catechist in 24 countries and experiencing many different types of people, taken hostage, rescued by loving Buddhists, and embraced by families in a heavenly leper Thai village, I would say I’ve experienced many different things, including helping mistresses of mafia leaders get free and change their lives, reconcile families with runaways, and reaching out for fascinating interchanges that have influenced and changed diehard atheists.  Mind you, not by me, but only and always by the grace of my Lord, Jesus the Christ.

Never fear, He is with you!!

Romy (Romuald B. Simeone)

The Spirit is a moving…!

Jesus-Centered Institute, LLC –Dialog International Press, LLC will be providing certification-track training! 

Collaboration!

Jesus-Centered Institute, LLC’s and its publishing division, Dialog International Press, LLC)  is in a joint venture to assist training licensed mental health & medical providers. Donations will provide funds for a sustainable Fellowship Certification Training Program.  Our offerings include  “Scriptural & Pastoral Foundations”, based on the Bible,  Books of John, Love Letters from Your Father, Lectio Divina.  Please note, all donations are “gifts” that are not tax deductible when given to Jesus-Centered Institute, LLC.  However, we hope to connect you to the affiliated new non-profit if you wish to make a substantial tax deductible donation, soon!  Just let us know by emailing us your intent.  The non-profit will be an educational institution that will offer a full program of training that is Jesus-Centered for professionals.

SO, PLEASE PRAY ON HELPING FUND STUDENT PROFESSIONALS IN ENROLLING IN OUR COURSES SO THEY CAN LEARN HOW TO ETHICALLY  BRING THE DIVINE HEALER, JESUS, INTO THEIR WORK AND BE PROPERLY BIBLICALLY GROUNDED THEMSELVES IN UNDERSTANDING JESUS AND THE GOSPEL.

Dedicated Christian therapists and physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals need to learn how to provide culturally competent topnotch  interventions that ethically incorporate the spiritual dimensions of their clients/patients’ lives.  This allows them to be able to bring Jesus and the clients’ faith into their treatment.  Can you imagine how that might affect marriages that come to them with struggle, especially the Christian ones. Often in graduate school a triadic understanding of the human being, “body, soul & spirit”, has been omitted in favor as seeing a human as a mere animal organism.  We know that human beings are more than just a mass of cells at the level of all animal beings.  We have a reflective awareness that is full of life, a conscience that is innate in us, and a spirit that longs for eternal life and true reconnection with it’s Maker!  We know also that marriages that share common values, meaning and purpose thrive best, including their intimate lives being rooted and grounded on love.  Jesus-Centered Institute, LLC attempts to fill these deep longings of the human heart by training providers how to share their own faith as appropriate, inquire into the spiritual beliefs and realities of their clients, and invite them into experiences of prayer and encounter with the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

This includes basing all commentary given to clients/patients on the foundation of Christ, being built and rooted in Him.  (Col. 2:7).  It is  also known as a “Christian anthropology” in popular terms, not pushing anything onto those with different perspectives, but identifying the core truths and needs that are universal to, and belong equally to, all human beings.

This is what we want: healthy and independently functioning persons & marriages that in turn can subsequently mentor new disciples of our Lord as well as marriages and minister in the parish or church communities.  Healthy models of marriage sadly are a rare commodity!

That is why with  Jesus-Centered Schema Therapy we are endeavoring to do something using the talent base of  already-formed Christian providers (both mental health and medical).  In addition, we would like to see funds generated for clergy therapists, who are committed to healing marriages full time.  This allows them to focus on these skills and develop them, to engage in further research studies, and to train the next set of Jesus-Centered Therapists.