May 18, 1905 – Love deserves preference above everything.
Continuing in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for just
a little and told me: “My daughter, fear takes life away from
love. Not only this, but also the very virtues which do not
originate from love decrease the life of love in the soul. On
the contrary, in all things love deserves preference, because
love makes everything easy, while the very virtues which do
not originate from love are like many victims that end up in a
slaughter – that is, the destruction of the virtues themselves.”
May 20, 1905 – The way of suffering of Jesus.
This morning I was thinking of when blessed Jesus
remained all dislocated on the Cross, and I said to myself:
‘Ah, Lord, how tormented you must have been by sufferings
so atrocious, and how afflicted your soul must have been!’
At that moment, almost like a shadow, He came and told me:
“My daughter, I did not occupy Myself with my sufferings, but
rather, I occupied Myself with the purpose of my pains; andsince in my pains I could see the Will of the Father fulfilled,
I suffered and in my very suffering I found the sweetest rest.
In fact, doing the Divine Will contains this good: while
one suffers, one finds the most beautiful rest; and if one
enjoys, but this enjoyment is not wanted by God, in the very
enjoyment one finds the most atrocious torment. Even more,
the closer I would come to the end of the pains, yearning to
fulfill the Will of the Father in everything, the more relieved
I would feel, and my rest would become more beautiful. O,
how different is the way of souls! If they suffer or operate,
their gaze is neither on the fruit which they can obtain nor on
the fulfillment of the Divine Will; rather, they concentrate all
of themselves on the thing that they are doing, and not seeing
the goods which they can earn or the sweet rest that the Will
of God brings, they live bothered and tormented, and they
shun suffering and operating as much as they can, thinking
of finding rest; but they remain more tormented than before.”
by the Little Daughter of the Divine Will, Luisa Piccarreta Book of Heaven Volume 6