JOURNEY INTO THE DIVINE WILL

From the Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

January 1, 1927 The will of the soul as present for Baby Jesus. How His whole life was the symbol and the calling of the Divine Will.

(I was meditating on the old year which was setting, and the new one which was rising.)
My state continues in the flight of the light of the Divine Will, and I was praying the pretty little Baby that, just as the old year was dying never to be born again, so He would make my will die and live no more; and as present for the new year, He would give me His Will, just as I gave Him the gift of mine, so as to place it as footstool at His tender little feet, that it might have no other life but His Will alone. Now, while I was saying this and other things, my sweet Jesus came out from within my interior, and told me: “Daughter of my Will, how I love, want – yearn that your will may end in you. Oh, how I accept your present! How pleasing it will be for Me to keep it as soft footstool at my feet. In fact, as long as it remains in the creature, outside of its center which is God, the human will is hard; but when it enters again into the center from which it came, serving as footstool at the feet of your little Baby Jesus, it becomes soft, and I use it to amuse Myself. Is it not right that, little as I am, I have an amusement? And that in the midst of so many sorrows, privations and tears, I have your will to make Me smile?
Now, you must know that one who puts an end to her will, returns into the origin from which she came, and the new life, the life of light, the perennial life of my Will, begins in her. See, when I came upon earth, I wanted to give many examples and similes of how I wanted the human will to end. I wanted to be born at midnight, so as to break the night of the human will with the refulgent day of Mine. And even though at midnight the night continues, it does not finish, it is yet the beginning of a new day; and my Angels, to give honor to my birth and to point out to everyone the day of my Will, from midnight on, gladdened the vault of the heavens with new stars and new suns, such as to turn the night into more than daylight. This was the homage that the Angels gave to my little Humanity, in which resided the full day of the Sun of my Divine Will, and the calling of the creature into the full day of It. Still little, I submitted Myself to the so very cruel cut of circumcision, which made Me shed bitter tears for the pain – and not only Me, but with Me cried my Mother and dear St. Joseph. It was the cut of the human will that I wanted to make, so that creatures might let the Divine Will flow within that cut, and so that a broken will might have life no more – but only Mine, which had run within that cut in order to begin Its life again.
Still little, I wanted to flee to Egypt. A tyrannical and iniquitous will wanted to kill Me – symbol of the human will which wants to kill Mine; and I fled, in order to say to all: ‘Flee the human will, if you do not want Mine to be killed.’ My whole life was nothing other than the calling of the Divine Will into the human. In Egypt I lived like a stranger in the midst of that people – symbol of my Will, which they keep as though estranged within their midst; and symbolizing that whoever wants to live in peace and united with my Will, must live as though estranged from the human will. Otherwise, there will always be war between the two of them – they are two irreconcilable wills.
After my exile, I returned to my fatherland – symbol of my Will which, after Its long exile of centuries upon centuries, will return to Its dear fatherland, into the midst of Its children in order to reign. And as I went through these stages in my life, I kept forming Its Kingdom in Me, and I called It with incessant prayers, with pains and with tears, to come to reign in the midst of creatures. I returned to my fatherland and I lived hidden and unknown. Oh! how this symbolizes the sorrow of my Will which, while living in the midst of the peoples, lives unknown and hidden. And with my hiddenness, I impetrated that the Supreme Will be known, that It might receive the homage and the glory which are due to It. There was nothing I did which did not symbolize a sorrow of my Will, the condition in which creatures put It, and a call I made in order to return Its Kingdom to It. And this is what I want your life to be: the continuous calling of the Kingdom of my Will into the midst of creatures.”

Scripture Meditation- For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

² a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
³ a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
⁴ a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
⁵ a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
⁶ a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
⁷ a time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
⁸ a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.

Reflection- O Lord we bless You, we thank You, we adore You and we love You because You take us through Your Early and Hidden Life in a beautiful round showing us how we too can pray and yearn for Your Holy and Divine Will to reign. Luisa was going through the last year in anticipation of the New Year- we too can go through our last year- the joyful, the sorrowful, and the glorious! And we too can make a little round as we offer our little wills, contemplating Scripture on how in our lives there is a time for everything, repairing and re-doing all that was not in Your Will for ourselves and for all past, present and future! Because You tell us- “And this is what I want your life to be: the continuous calling of the Kingdom of my Will into the midst of creatures.” Who needs resolutions- all we need is You living in us!