Walking with Jesus-Daily Divine Will Calendar From The Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta
August 9, 1905
Effects of peace and of disturbance- Volume 6
Luisa- Continuing in my usual state, I was feeling a little disturbed, and blessed Jesus, on coming, told me:
Jesus- “My
daughter, the soul who is at peace and whose whole being tends completely into Me, drips with drops of light which fall
upon my garment and form my ornament. On the other hand, the soul who is disturbed drips with darkness, which forms
the diabolical ornament. Not only this, but disturbance impedes the course of grace and renders it unable to operate
good.”
Then He added: “If the soul becomes disturbed over everything, it is a sign that she is full of herself. If she
becomes disturbed with something that happens to her, but does not with something else, it is a sign that she has
something of God, but there are many voids to be filled. If, then, nothing disturbs her, it is a sign that she is all filled with
God. Oh! how much harm disturbance does to the soul – to the point of rejecting God and of filling her completely with
herself.”
Scripture Meditation- Thou dost keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee,
because he trusts in thee. (Isaiah 26:3).
Prayer Reflection- O Lord we bless You, we adore You and we worship You because if we are being honest, this is where most of us live our lives. Just last evening Lord, after two hours of adoration and a Vigil Mass where there was SO much peace, I left my phone in the pew and discovered it when I got home. It was thankfully picked up by one of the Pauline Fathers at the Shrine were I had been, though I ran around like the sky was falling. And this is after hearing a homily about Peter sinking in the water when he took his eyes off of You and how important it is to pray and cry out to You when we are in trouble. The voids exist in us when we are not full of You but still so full of ourselves. O My Jesus they feel like gaping holes in my soul. Wretched woman that I am who will deliver me from this body of death (Romans 7:24). O Lord we all struggle with disturbance, lack of peace, lack of trust- even Luisa, even St. Peter, and even St. Paul! But we know Lord ,that the answer is it is You that will deliver us as St. Paul proclaims in the next verse of Roman 7- thanks be to God! O Lord help us to keep our hearts, our minds, our eyes fixed on You- Lord think in our thinking, breathe in our breathing so that we would stay in Your Perfect Peace not only for ourselves for for Your Glory and the good of all souls!
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