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         I have called you, ordained you and chosen you. Before the foundations of the Earth I chose you and blessed you. For you are a precious pearl unto Me, a pearl of great price!
         I have poured forth to you and do pour forth to you. I have taught you and I do teach you. I prepare you for that which I have for you in the days to come. For these are your days of preparation, your days of learning, your days of growth.
         At times you wondered, "Will I only care for children all of my days?" And I have slowly moved you on to new and greater things. I train you further and I give you more responsibilities and I teach you. For the time will come when you will move into even greater responsibilities.
         So learn all that you must learn and be open for all that I teach you. I teach you through others and I teach you by My Own hand. I teach you through the tests, the trials, and the tribulations. But know that all of these things are to prepare you for that which is ahead and for that which I will call you to do in the time appointed.
         So set your affection on things above and not on things of this Earth. For I would not prepare you for all these years if I did not have a chosen place for you, a ministry of My making, of My choosing. But you must first learn and grow and be broken and remade so you can be the woman of My making.
         So leave the choices to Me. Look to Me each step of the way and I will keep you, I will strengthen you, I will protect you, and I will pull you through. For I am your Teacher, your Shepherd, your Lover, your Friend, and your Husband. If you could see that which is ahead for you, you would be willing to go through anything! But as you cannot see these things, you must believe, for I have told you of them.
         O precious pearl of great price, you have a special luster, a special shine, a special coating that I have placed there in My love for you. Trust Me, I say, trust Me!

         Trust Me in the darkness and trust Me in the light.
         Trust Me in the daytime and trust Me in the night.
         Trust Me when things get so dark and drear,
         For the shape of the pearl is the shape of a tear.
         Trust as you've trusted Me through each year.
         And I will reward you, for you are My dear.

         It is in your trusting that this pearl shall be placed as the centerpiece in the crown of My choosing. So think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, but rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of My suffering. Rejoice in that this adds to the luster of the pearl. Rejoice in that when you are strengthened, you shall strengthen your brethren.



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