"I went out by night...and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down..." Nehemiah 2:13a

May 23, 2016, excerpt from my spirital journal
‘What is the Wall of Mary like in your life?’ ‘The Wall of Mary.’
These words kept coming to me this past week.
I felt led to read Nehemiah’s story of his scrutiny of the walls of Jerusalem, by examination of them at night. The Book of Nehemiah is about the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, but it is also a story about the walls that need to be in place around our hearts.

I am in the midst of a family crisis.
I prayed the Rosary all night. I prayed all the Mysteries of the Rosary: Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, Luminous. The true Rosary, before culture got so busy.

‘You have rebuilt your Wall of Mary.’
‘You have rebuilt the Wall of Mary in your life.’
I heard these words…then…

‘Just as a mother holds as treasures in her heart,
the memories of her child’s life,
so too my Mother holds in her life,
the Mysteries of my life.

When you hold the treasure of the Mysteries of my life
in your life,
you have rebuilt The Wall of Mary
in your life.

The Wall of Mary consists of the Mysteries
of my life and hers.
These are the Mysteries of my life.
When you contemplate my life,
you see your life in mine.’

‘This is the Wall of Mary that must be built into the life of every believer.’