Why Do You Wander Like Sheep into Other Pastures?

These are the ages of turmoil. Be aware. Are you present to Me so that I may direct you?

You are inserting your own caveats into My plans that are not choreographed by My hand. But if you yield to Me, I will direct you.

I have given you everything you need, but you lament to Me that you do not know what to do, when I have given you instructions that you do not follow.¹

I will provide even for your mistakes and missteps were you to go off but then return. My care is more than the sands, more than the stars, but you play games with Me: including Me, then excluding Me, according to your needs in life. You conjure up that your needs are greater than My plans, which are whole and perfect.

Through the ages, I have sent My echo of love through many sources and wellsprings of grace. Were you to spend more time in conversations with Me rather than gossip with your neighbor, your cries and sorrows would be dried by My Mantle of Love: the Most Holy, the Most Sublime Virgin, My Mother, who, like Me, hungers for a glance of love from our offspring.

Why do you wander like sheep into other pastures, when I, the Good Shepherd, am here? You wander into what you would call greener pastures, but no… The sheep do not notice a shepherd in their midst. They follow one another looking for better pastures, when the best [Shepherd] Is here looking after them.

Cherish this time of return, back to the Shepherd-of-Providence. I am and will always be with you, to lead and to guide you, to call you into the fold. I need your yes, and I will do the rest. No matter how large or small your faults, I prepare a way in the midst of your drought—for in the desert the wind still blows, and I am in the wind. Where is your Fiat?

Storms come! Prepare your heart! Spend time with Me that I may abide in you and you and Me. I love you, all of you.

1. The Lord’s instructions to us through Scripture and the Church’s teachings