« Living in the Divine Will
means being inseparable, doing nothing by oneself, because before
the Divine Will one feels incapable of anything. He does not ask
for orders, nor does he receive them, because he feels incapable
of going on his own; and he says: “If You want me to do this,
let us do it together; and if You want me to go, let us go together.”
So, he does all that his Father does. If the Father thinks, he
makes the thoughts of the Father his own, and has not one thought
more than those of the Father. If the Father looks, if He speaks,
if He works, if He walks, if He suffers, if He loves, he too looks
at what the Father looks at, repeats the words of the Father, works
with the hands of the Father, walks with the feet of the Father,
suffers the same pains of the Father, and loves with the love of
the Father. He lives, not outside, but inside the Father, therefore
he is the reflection and the perfect portrait of the Father - which
is not for one, who lives, only resigned. It is impossible to find
this son without the Father, or the Father without him; and not
only externally, but all his interior is as though interwoven with
the interior of the Father - transformed, dissolved completely,
completely, in God.
Oh! The rapid and sublime flights of this child
in the Divine Will. This Divine Volition is immense; in every instant
It circulates in everyone, It gives life to everything and orders
everything; and the soul, moving within this immensity, flies to
all, helps all, loves all, but as Jesus Himself helps and loves
- which one who lives only resigned cannot do.
Therefore, one who lives in the Divine Will finds
it impossible to act on his own; even more, he feels nausea for
his human operating, be it even holy, because in the Divine Will
all things, even the smallest ones, take on a different look. They
acquire nobility, splendor, divine sanctity, divine power and beauty;
they multiply to infinity, and in one instant one does everything.
And after he has done everything, he says: “I have done nothing
- Jesus did it. And this is all my contentment: that, meager as
I am, Jesus has given me the honor to keep me in the Divine Will,
to let me do what He Himself has done.”
So, the enemy cannot bother this child - whether
he has done well or badly, little or much - because Jesus Himself
did everything, and he together with Jesus. He is the most peaceful;
he is not subject to anxiety; he loves no one and loves everyone
- but divinely. It can be said that he is the repeater of the Life
of Jesus, the organ of His voice; the heartbeat of His Heart, the
sea of His graces would like the tears of my Jesus to cry together
with Him over these false sanctities. Oh, how I wish so make everyone
know how true sanctity is in doing the Divine Will and in living
in the Divine Volition. »
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