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 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.
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. 32, April 23, 1933 - “The virtue of abandonment is the greatest virtue,
it is binding God such that He takes care of the abandoned one in His
Arms. Abandonment says to God: ‘I do not
want to know anything of myself; this life of mine is Yours, not mine, and
Yours is mine.’ Therefore, if you want
to obtain everything, if you want to Truly Love Me, live abandoned in My arms,
let Me hear the echo of My Life in every instant: ‘Into Your hands I abandon
myself completely,’ and I will carry you in My arms as the dearest of My children.”
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."
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!
Day 1
Why do you confuse yourselves
by worrying? Leave the care of your affairs to Me and everything will be
peaceful. I say to you in truth that every act of true, blind, complete
surrender to Me produces the effect that you desire and resolves all difficult
situations.
O Jesus, I surrender myself to
you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Day 2
Surrender to Me does not mean
to fret, to be upset, or to lose hope, nor does it mean offering to Me a
worried prayer asking Me to follow you and change your worry into prayer. It is
against this surrender, deeply against it, to worry, to be nervous and to
desire to think about the consequences of anything. It is like the confusion
that children feel when they ask their mother to see to their needs, and then
try to take care of those needs for themselves so that their childlike efforts
get in their mother’s way. Surrender means to placidly close the eyes of the
soul, to turn away from thoughts of tribulation and to put yourself in My care,
so that only I act, saying “You take care of it”.
O Jesus, I surrender myself to
you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Day 3
How many things I do when the
soul, in so much spiritual and material need, turns to Me, looks at Me and says
to Me; “You take care of it”, then closes its eyes and rests. In pain you pray
for Me to act, but that I act in the way you want. You do not turn to Me,
instead, you want me to adapt your ideas. You are not sick people who ask the
doctor to cure you, but rather sick people who tell the doctor how to. So do
not act this way, but pray as I taught you in the our Father: “Hallowed be
thy Name“, that is, be glorified in my need. “Thy kingdom come“,
that is, let all that is in us and in the world be in accord with your kingdom.
“Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven“, that is, in our need,
decide as you see fit for our temporal and eternal life. If you say to Me
truly: “Thy will be done“, which is the same as saying: “You take care
of it”, I will intervene with all My omnipotence, and I will resolve the most
difficult situations.
O Jesus, I surrender myself to
you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Day 4
You see evil growing instead
of weakening? Do not worry. Close your eyes and say to Me with faith: “Thy will
be done, You take care of it.” I say to you that I will take care of it, and
that I will intervene as does a doctor and I will accomplish miracles when they
are needed. Do you see that the sick person is getting worse? Do not be upset,
but close your eyes and say “You take care of it.” I say to you that I will
take care of it, and that there is no medicine more powerful than My loving
intervention. By My love, I promise this to you.
O Jesus, I surrendered myself
to you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Day 5
And when I must lead you on a
path different from the one you see, I will prepare you; I will carry you in My
arms; I will let you find yourself, like children who have fallen asleep in
their mother’s arms, on the other bank of the river. What troubles you and
hurts you immensely are your reason, your thoughts and worry, and your desire
at all costs to deal with what afflicts you.
O Jesus, I surrender myself to
you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Day 6
You are sleepless; you want to
judge everything, direct everything and see to everything and you surrender to
human strength, or worse—to men themselves, trusting in their intervention—this
is what hinders My words and My views. Oh, how much I wish from you this surrender,
to help you; and how I suffer when I see you so agitated! Satan tries to do
exactly this: to agitate you and to remove you from My protection and to throw
you into the jaws of human initiative. So, trust only in Me, rest in Me,
surrender to Me in everything.
O Jesus, I surrender myself to
you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Day 7
I perform miracles in
proportion to your full surrender to Me and to your not thinking of yourselves.
I sow treasure troves of graces when you are in the deepest poverty. No person
of reason, no thinker, has ever perform miracles, not even among the saints. He
does divine works whosoever surrenders to God. So don’t think about it anymore,
because your mind is acute, and for you, it is very hard to see evil and to trust
in Me and to not think of yourself. Do this for all your needs, do this all of
you and you will see great continual silent miracles. I will take care of
things, I promise this to you.
O Jesus, I surrender myself to
you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Day 8
Close your eyes and let
yourself be carried away on the flowing current of My grace; close your eyes
and do not think of the present, turning your thoughts away from the future
just as you would from temptation. Repose in Me, believing in My goodness, and
I promise you by My love that if you say “You take care of it”, I will take
care of it all; I will console you, liberate you and guide you.
O Jesus, I surrender myself to
you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Day 9
Pray always in readiness to
surrender, and you will receive from it great peace and great rewards, even
when I confer on you the grace of immolation, of repentance and of love. Then
what does suffering matter? It seems impossible to you? Close your eyes and say
with all your soul, “Jesus, you take care of it”. Do not be afraid, I will take
care of things and you will bless My name by humbling yourself. A thousand
prayers cannot equal one single act of surrender, remember this well. There is
no novena more effective than this.
O Jesus, I surrender myself to
you, take care of everything!
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