February 7, 1908
Life is a weight that will turn into a treasure.
Continuing in my usual state, I was thinking about the enormous weight that blessed Jesus felt in carrying the cross, and I said to myself: ‘Lord, life too is a weight – but what a weight, especially because You, my highest Good, are far away. At that moment, He came and told me: "My daughter, it is true that life is a weight, but when this weight is carried with Me, and one finds out that at the end of his life he can unload this weight within Me, he will find this weight changed into a
treasure, in which he will find gems, precious stones, diamonds and all riches, such as to make him happy for
February 9, 1908
The way the soul must be with Jesus. Necessity of love for Jesus.
Having received Communion, I was saying: ‘Lord, keep me always clasped to You, for I am too little, and if You do not
keep me clasped, because I am little, I may get lost.’ And He: "I want to teach you the way you must be with Me: first,
you must enter into Me, transform yourself in Me, and take what you find in Me. Second, once you have filled yourself
completely with Me, go out and operate together with Me, as if you and I were one single thing, in such a way that if I
move, you move as well; if I think, you think of the same thing of which I am thinking – in sum, whatever I do, you do as
well.
Third, with these acts that we have done together, move away from Me for one instant, and go into the midst of
creatures, giving to all and to each one everything we have done together – that is, giving my divine life to each one, and
then quickly returning into Me to give Me, in the name of all, all the glory that they should give Me, praying, excusing
them, repairing, loving… Ah, yes! Love Me for all, satiate Me with love! There are no passions in Me, but if there could
be any passion, it would be only this and this alone: love. But love in Me is more than passion – it is my life; and if
passions can be destroyed, life cannot. See the necessity of being loved in which I find Myself. Therefore, love Me, love
Me."
February 12, 1908
In one day a courageous soul does more than a timid one does in one year.
As I was in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for just a little and told me: "My daughter, timidity represses Grace and
hampers the soul. A timid soul will never be good at operating great things, either for God, or for her neighbor, or for
herself. When a soul is timid, it is as if she had her legs tied: unable to walk freely, she always has her eyes fixed on
herself, and on the effort she makes in order to walk. Timidity makes her keep her eyes low, never high. In operating, she
draws her strength not from God, but from herself, and therefore, instead of becoming stronger, she becomes weaker. If Grace sows, it happens to It as to a poor farmer who, having sown and worked his little field, harvests little or nothing. On
the other hand, in one day a courageous soul does more than a timid one does in one year.