JOURNEY INTO THE DIVINE WILL

From The Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

Date: February 21, 1922

Description: Book of Heaven. Vol. 14, February 21, 1922. The nature of true Love is to die and live continuously for the beloved.

Luisa:

Continuing in my usual state, my always adorable Jesus, on coming, told me:

Jesus:

“My daughter, my Love toward the creature made Me die at each instant. The nature of true Love is to die and live continuously for the beloved. The Love of wanting her with oneself makes one feel death, it causes a martyrdom, perhaps of the most painful and prolonged. However, the same Love, stronger than death itself, in the very instant in which one dies, gives him life – but to do what? To give life to the beloved, and form one single life with her. Those flames have the virtue of consuming one life to fuse it within the other. This is precisely the virtue of my Love: to make Me die and, from my consummation, form many seeds, to place them in the hearts of all creatures, so as to make Me rise again and form with them one single life with Me. Now, you too can die, who knows how many times for love of Me – and maybe at each instant. Every time you want Me and do not see Me, your will feels the death of my privation – and it does so in reality, because, as you do not see Me, your will dies, for it does not find the life it seeks. However, after it has consumed itself in that act, I am reborn in you, and you in Me; and you find again the life wanted by you, but to return to die once again in order to live in Me. In the same way, if you desire Me, your desire, unquenched, feels death; but as I make Myself seen, it finds its life again. The same with your love, your intelligence, your heart – they can be in continuous act of dying and living for Me. If I have done this for you, it is quite right that you do it for Me. ” (Book of Heaven) Divine Will app.com)

Scripture- ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (John 12:24).

Reflections-O Lord we love You, we bless You, and we adore You because life in You who are True Love is a cycle of dying, rising, and living. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the Earth and dies it is just a grain of wheat. It is in dying that we bear much fruit. During this Lent, let us look at what needs to die so it can rise again to new life in our lives- is it our habits, attachments, addictions, our passions, what is it and how can we let You prune these bad fruits and weeds in the garden of our souls so that we indeed bear the good fruit united to You that You have planned for us from all eternity? Ultimately how do we give You the little pebbles of our wills so that Your Will would reign in us? O Lord please keep teaching us and pruning us sip by sip for Your Glory and the good of all!