ABANDONMENT TO THE WILL OF GOD
Volume 1 –
“What
I want from you is that you abandon yourself in my arms as if you were dead.
Until you keep your eyes opened to look at what I am doing and at what the
creatures do and say, I cannot operate freely upon you. Don’t you want to trust
Me? Don’t you know how much I love you, and that everything I allow, either
through creatures, or from demons, or directly from Me, is truly for your good
and serves for nothing but to lead the soul to that state for which I have
chosen her? Therefore, I want you to remain in my arms with your eyes closed,
without looking at and investigating this or that, trusting Me completely, and
letting Me operate freely.”
Volume 12,
July 2, 1918 - I was saying to my beloved Jesus: ‘Jesus, I love You; but my
love is small, therefore I love You in your love, to make it great. I want to
adore You with your adorations, pray in your prayer, thank You in your
thanksgivings.’ Now, while I was saying this, my lovable Jesus told me: “My daughter, as you placed your love in
mine in order to love Me, yours remained fixed in mine, and it became longer
and larger within mine; and I felt I was being loved the way I would want the
creature to love Me. And as you adored in my adorations, prayed, thanked, these
remained fixed in Me; and I felt I was being adored, prayed and thanked with my
adorations, prayers and thanksgivings. Ah! my daughter, it takes great
abandonment in Me. And as the soul abandons herself in Me, I abandon Myself in
her; and filling her with Myself, I Myself do what she must do for Me. But if
she does not abandon herself, then what she does remains fixed in her, not in
Me; and I feel the operating of the creature as full of imperfections and
miseries - which cannot please Me.”
Vol. 12, August
6, 1919 – “Abandonment in
Me is the image of two torrents, each one unloading itself into the other with
such impetus, that their waters blend together; and forming gigantic waves of
water, they arrive at even touching Heaven, to the point that the bed of those
torrents remains dry. And the roaring of those waters, their murmuring, is so
sweet and harmonious, that Heaven, in seeing Itself touched by those waters,
feels honored and shines with new beauty; and the Saints, in chorus, say: ‘This
is the sweet sound and the harmony that enraptures, of a soul who has abandoned
herself in God. How beautiful it is - how beautiful it is!’”
Another day He told me: “What
do you fear? Abandon yourself in Me, and you will remain surrounded by Me as
though within a circle, in such a way that if enemies, occasions or dangers
come, they will have to deal with Me, not with you; and I will answer for you.
True abandonment in Me is rest for the soul and work for Me; and if the soul is
restless, it means that she is not abandoned in Me - a just pain restlessness
is, for one who wants to live of her own, doing great wrong to Me, and great
harm to herself.”
Volume 13, Oct. 18, 1921 – “…disturbance is nothing other than lack of abandonment in Me, and I want you so abandoned in my arms, that you must have not even one thought of yourself; and I will take care of everything.”
Volume 16,
Feb. 10, 1924 – “if the soul did not live completely abandoned in my Will, she would be like
someone who lived in a sumptuous palace, and now leaned out of a window, now
out of a balcony, now went down to the main door. So, only seldom or in passing
does the poor one pass through some of the rooms, and therefore she knows
little of the regime, of the work that is needed, of the goods which are there
present, of what she can take, and of what she can give. Who knows how many
goods are in there, and she knows little about it, therefore she does not love
that palace as she should love it, nor does she esteem it as it deserves.
Now, for
the soul who lives in my Will and is not
completely abandoned in It, self reflections, cares for herself, fears,
disturbances, are nothing other than windows, balconies and main doors that she
forms in my Will; and by going out very often, she is forced to see and feel
the miseries of human life. And since the miseries are her own property, while
the riches of my Will are mine, she becomes more attached to the miseries than
to the riches, and so she will not come to love, nor will she enjoy what it
means to live in my Will. And having formed the main door, one day or another
she will go away to live in the miserable hovel of her own will. See, then, how
complete abandonment in Me is necessary
in order to live in my Will. My Will does not need the miseries of the
human will; It wants the creature to live together with It - beautiful, just as
It delivered her from Its womb, without the miserable provision that she has
formed for herself in the exile of life. Otherwise, there would be disparity,
which would bring sorrow to my Will and unhappiness to the human will.”
Volume 36, June 12, 1938 – “Oh, if everyone abandoned themselves in my arms! The earth would disappear for them, they wouldn't pay attention to anybody, I would be enough for all. I love, so much, the one who lives abandoned in my arms that I show her the greatest excesses of my love, my love jokes, my caresses. I reach the point of inventing new love tricks to keep them busy and centered in my love. Therefore, live abandoned in my arms and in everything you will find your Jesus defending, helping and sustaining you."
Volume 20,
Nov. 16, 1926 – “…the more you abandon yourself in the Supreme
Will, the more you advance along Its ways, the more knowledges you acquire, and
the more you take possession of the goods which are in the Divine Will; because
in It there is always something to know and to take.”
Vol. 36,
Sept. 5, 1938 - “…I was thinking to
myself: it seems to me difficult to live in It; how can the creature reach this
point? The human weaknesses, the circumstances of life, many times, are too
painful; the unexpected encounters, the so many difficulties that one doesn't
even know what to do - wouldn't all these things lead the creature astray from
a life so holy that it would take a perfect attention not to? And my sweet
Jesus, continuing His say with such a tenderness that I felt my heart
exploding, added: "My little
daughter of my Will, my interest and my continuous yearning for the creature to
live in my Will is such that, once we've made the agreement, Myself and her, with a firm decision that she must live
in my Fiat - this being My Will - I am the first one who makes the sacrifice to
obtain the intent, so that she may live in It. I place Myself at her disposal.
I give her all the graces, light, love and the very knowledge of my Will, so
that she herself has to feel the need to live in It. When I want something, and
she promptly accepts doing what I want, I take care of everything; and when she
fails for weakness, for inconstancy or for negligence, not for will, I come to
compensate, and I do what she was supposed to do, transferring to her what I
did as if she had done it.”
From In
Sinu Jesu, When Heart Speaks to Heart -
“How does one come to that degree of
trust? By entrusting to Me very little
things, day by day, as they arise, and by leaving them to Me. This was also the wisdom of My priest Don Dolindo. ‘Jesus’, he used to say to Me, ‘you take care
of this.’ And then he went his way lighthearted and confident that I would
honor the confidence he placed in Me.”
Jesus,
I abandon myself to you. You take care of everything!
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