You are a garden enclosed,
my sister, my bride;
a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.
---- my own,
You asked Me for a word to carry you through the day, and this is My Word to you. You are Mine, most precious in My sight. I have called you out of the world to be My sister, My bride, My very own. In the garden of your heart, ask the Holy Spirit to plant every beautiful grace and virtue. He will cause springs of living water to flow out of your heart, and beside this fountain of grace I will come to you, and I will live in you, and I will abide in you, and you in Me. Do not let the trials, the troubles, and the raucous cacophony of the world and its trivialities and its gaudy and titillating pastimes get a foothold in your heart.
Let your whole being be consumed with love for Me and My love for you. Shut your senses out and open them to My Presence, and listen with your whole being to all that I say to you, all I ask of you, all I desire of you. Remain in Me and I will remain in you. Bring all your needs to Me, no matter how foolish you think they are or how great and impossible, and lay them in My Heart. I hear you, and I always hear you. Lean on Me, rest in Me, be strengthened by Me, and let My love cover you and keep you ever in Me. No harm will come to you; no evil will touch you when you are covered in My Blood. Be still always and be aware that I AM God, and I will never leave you nor forsake you, for you are Mine in time and eternity.
