wALKINg with jesus daily

Walking With Jesus-Daily Divine Will Calendar From The Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

August 12, 1930
How despondency doubles the weight of the pains. In what way Jesus visits us. How the first motive
in God is Love, and the Divine Will the Life– Volume 28

Luisa- I am under the empire of the Divine Fiat, which alone knows my deep wounds that keep
becoming more bitter and multiplying in my poor soul. But all my hope is that the Divine Will alone
may reign in the circumstances, alas, painful, of my existence down here, and which want to hasten my
departure for the Celestial Fatherland. But while I was in the nightmare of most bitter pains, my sweet
Jesus told me:

Jesus “My daughter, do not lose heart, because disheartenment calls for despondency, which
doubles the weight of the pains, so much so, that the poor creature, with this doubled weight, can just
barely drag herself on the way that she must cover, while my Will does not want you to drag yourself,
but to fly within Its interminable light. And besides, I Myself am the sorrow, within which I make my
little visits; sorrow is the veil, but inside there is my person which, hidden within the veil of the sorrow,
visits the creature. I Myself am the necessities, and hidden inside of them, I make her the most
beautiful visits to make Myself help in the necessities that I dispose. It is not just by making Myself
seen that I visit the creatures, but in so many ways, that it can be said that in each encounter, in each
circumstance, or great or little things that happen to her, it is a visit that I dispose Myself to make her,
in order to give her what is needed. For one who lives in my Divine Will, then, my state in her being
permanent, not only do I visit her, but I keep expanding the boundaries of my Will.”

Scripture Meditation- ⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. ⁸ We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. (2 Corinthians 4:7-11).

Prayer Reflection- O Lord we bless You, we praise You and we adore You because You show us that despondency and discouragement just double the weight of our pains. We all have circumstances that we wish did not exist or that we could avoid. We can feel sad, depressed, and bitter- it is so easy just to give in and want to give up. Yet You tell us that not only do You help us in our circumstances, You actually ARE in all of those circumstances. Every encounter and every thing that happens to us big and small are little visits from You to our soul, and beautiful visits indeed, because You never leave us nor do You forsake us! And You always give us what we need in the moment! O Lord You so long for us to live in Your Divine Will so that You could keep expanding the capacity of our souls, and yet we hold this treasure in earthen vessels. Anything transcendent in us is from You! And so we can say with St. Paul- We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed because behind the veils of every sorrow, pain and disappointment there You are and Your Love never fails! Fiat!