Divine Will for every day of the year - June 17, 1915 Volume 11

Finding myself in my usual state, I was lamenting with Jesus, telling Him: “My Life, Jesus, everything is ended. At the most, what is left to me is nothing other than your flashes and shadows…" And Jesus, interrupting my saying, told me: “My daughter, everything must end in My Will. Once the soul has done this, she has done everything. If she had done much without enclosing it in My Will, one can say that she has done nothing. I take into account all that ends in My Will, since My own Life is in It, as if bound. So, it is just that I take into account even the most tiny things, even trifles, as My own things, because I feel that each tiny act the creature does united with My Will, she takes from Me first, and then she performs it. Therefore, all My Sanctity, My Power, My Wisdom, My Love and all that I am are included in her tiniest act. In that act done with My Will, I feel the repetition of My Life, My Works, My Word, My Thought and so on. So, if your things ended up in My Will, what else would you want? 

“All things have only one final point. The Sun has that of invading all the earth with Its light. The farmer sows, hoes, works the earth; he suffers from cold and heat. However, that is not his final point, which is, rather, to reap the fruits and make of them his own food. The same thing for many other things which, many as they are, resolve into one single point — and this point constitutes the life of man. The soul must make everything end in the single point of My Will. It will be her Life and I will make of It My food.”

Then He added: “In these sad times, you and I will go through a very painful period — things will rage more. However, know that if I take My Cross of wood away from you, I give you the Cross of My Will, which has no length and no width — it is interminable. I could not give you a more noble Cross. It is not made of wood, but of Light; and in this Light, which burns more than any fire, we will suffer together in every creature, in their agonies and in their tortures. We will try to be the life of all.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 16, 1903 Volume 5

… Then He [Jesus] told me: “My daughter, when I give to the soul the bitterness of tribulations, if the soul conforms to My Will, is grateful to Me, thanks Me for it and offers it to Me as a gift, for her it is bitterness, it is suffering, but for Me it changes into sweetness and refreshment. But what cheers Me the most and gives Me the most pleasure is to see that the soul, whether she operates or suffers, is all intent on pleasing Me alone, with no other end or purpose of recompense. However, what renders the soul more dear, more beautiful, more lovable, more intimate with the Divine Being, is her perseverance in this way of behaving, which renders her immutable with the immutable God. In fact, if today she does something and tomorrow she doesn’t; if one time she has one end and another time another; if today she tries to please God and tomorrow creatures, she is the image of one who today is queen and tomorrow a most miserable servant; today she nourishes herself with delicious foods, tomorrow with filth.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 15, 1902 Volume 4

As I was in my usual state, my adorable Jesus transported me outside of myself, and told me; “My daughter, all virtues can be said to be My Qualities and My Attributes, but Love cannot be called an attribute of Mine, but rather, My very Nature. So, all virtues form My Throne and My Qualities, but Love forms My very Self.” On hearing this, I remembered that the day before I had told a person who feared about the uncertainty of salvation, that one who truly loves Jesus Christ can be sure of being saved. To me, I believe it is impossible that Our Lord would move away from Himself a soul who loves Him with all her heart; therefore, let us think of loving Him, and we will have our salvation in hand. So I asked loving Jesus whether by saying this I had spoken incorrectly, and He added: “My beloved, you said that with reason, because love has this of its own: it forms one object out of two, one will out of two. So, the soul who loves Me forms one single thing with Me, one single will; how can she then be separated from Me? More so, since My Nature is Love, and wherever It finds a few sparks of love in the human nature, immediately It unites them to the Eternal Love. Therefore, just as it is impossible to form two souls out of one soul, or two bodies out of one body, so is it impossible for one who truly loves Me to become lost.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 14, 1929 Volume 26

“… My daughter, how many unforgettable things there are in this Eden.  Here Our Fiat created man, and made such Display of Love, that It poured Itself in torrents upon him; so much so, that We still feel the sweet murmuring with which We poured Ourselves over him.  Here began the Life of Our Fiat in the creature, and the sweet and dear memory of the acts of the first man done in It.  These acts exist still now in Our Volition, and are as though pledges for him to be reborn in order to have the Kingdom of Our Fiat again.  

“In this Eden there is the sorrowful memory of the fall of man, the exit he made from Our Kingdom.  We still hear his steps when he went out of Our Divine Fiat; and since this Eden had been given to him so that he would live in It, We were forced to put him out, and We had the sorrow of seeing the work dearest to Us without his Kingdom, wandering and sorrowful.  Our only relief were the pledges of his acts, that had remained in Our Will; these called for the rights of humanity to enter again the place from which it had gone out.  

“This is why I await you in Eden to receive your small interest, to renew what We did in the Creation, and to receive the return for a Love so Great, not understood by creatures, and to find a loving pretext to give the Kingdom of Our Divine Will.  Therefore, I want this Eden to be dear to you as well, that you may pray Us and press Us that the beginning of Creation, the life of Our Fiat, may return into the midst of the human family.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 13, 1901 Volume 4

After a long silence on the part of my adorable Jesus – at the most, a few things about the scourges He wants to pour – this morning, as I was oppressed and tired because of my hard position, especially because of the continuous privations to which I am often subjected, I saw Him for short instants, and He told me: “My daughter, crosses and tribulations are the bread of Eternal Beatitude.” I comprehended that as we suffer more, more abundant and more enjoyable will be the Bread that will nourish us in the Celestial Dwelling; that is, the more we suffer, the greater the deposit we receive of the future Glory.

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 12, 1913 Volume 11

While I was praying, I was uniting my mind to the mind of Jesus, my eyes to those of Jesus, and so forth with everything else, with the intention of doing what Jesus did with His Mind, with His Eyes, with His Mouth, with His Heart, and so forth. And as it seemed that the Mind of Jesus, His Eyes, etc. were spreading themselves for the good of all, it also seemed that I too was spreading myself for the good of all, uniting and identifying myself with Jesus. 

Now, I was thinking to myself: “What kind of meditation is this? What prayer? Ah, I am no longer good at anything! I am not even able to reflect on something!” While I was thinking of this, my always adorable Jesus told me: “My daughter, what? Are you afflicting yourself with this? Instead of troubling yourself you should be happy, because when you were meditating at other times, and many beautiful reflections arose within your mind, you did nothing other than take part in Me, in My qualities and in My virtues. Now, since the only thing left to you is the opportunity of uniting and identifying yourself with Me, you take everything from Me. Unable to do any good by yourself, with Me you become good at everything, because desiring and wanting good produce strength in the soul which makes her grow, and which settles her in the Divine Life. Then, by uniting and identifying herself with Me, she unites with My Mind, producing many lives of holy thoughts in the minds of the creatures; as she unites with My Eyes, she produces many lives of holy glances in the creatures. In the same way, if she unites with My Mouth, she will give life to the words; if she unites to My Heart, My Desires, My Hands, My Steps, she will give a life for every heartbeat — life to desires, to actions, to steps... But holy lives, since I contain within Me Creative Power, and therefore the soul, together with Me, creates and does whatever I do. 

“Now, this union with Me — part to part, mind to mind, heart to heart, etc. — produces in you, in the highest degree, the Life of my Will and of my Love. The Father is formed in this Will, and the Holy Spirit in this Love; while the Son is formed by the Operation, the Words, the Works, the Thoughts, and by all the rest that can come from this Will and from this Love — here is the Trinity in the souls. …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 11, 1925 Volume 17

… Now, while my mind was wandering in the Eternal Will, my sweet Jesus, squeezing me to Himself, with sensible voice, told me: “My daughter, there is nothing which can equal the great evil of not doing My Will. There is no good which can equal doing It. There is no virtue which can stand before It. The good which is lost by not doing My Will is irreparable in itself; and only by returning again to It can one find remedy, and the goods which Our Will had established to give to the creature can be given back to her. In vain do creatures delude themselves in doing other works, virtues, sacrifices. If these are not a birth from My Will, and if they are not made in order to fulfill It, they are not recognized by Me; more so, since it is established that grace, aids, light, goods, and the just reward, will be given to those who operate in order to fulfill My Will. Moreover, My Will is Eternal — It has no beginning and will have no end; and so who can calculate an act done in My Will, which has no beginning and no end? That which My Will is, such It renders the act. On the other hand, the other virtues, the works and sacrifices without My Will, have a beginning, as well as en end. What great reward can things subject to perish ever receive? …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 10, 1904 Volume 6

Continuing in my usual state, my adorable Jesus came for just a little, all sad and sorrowful, and He told me:  “Ah, My daughter, if man knew himself, oh! how careful he would be not to become stained.  In fact, his beauty, his nobility, his strikingness are such and so great that he encompasses all the beauties and varieties of created things within himself.  And this, because all other things of nature had been created to serve man, and man was to be superior to all of them; so, in order to be superior, he had to encompass all the qualities of the other created things within himself.  Not only this, but since the other things had been created for man, and man for God alone and for His Delight, as a consequence he was not only to encompass all creation within himself, but he was to surpass it to the point of receiving the image of the Supreme Majesty within himself.  But in spite of all this, heedless of all these goods, man does nothing but dirty himself with the ugliest filth.”  And He disappeared.

I understood that it happens to us as to a poor woman, who received a garment woven with gold and enriched with gems and precious pearls.  But since she knows little about these things and does not know their value, she keeps the garment exposed to dust; she easily lets it get dirty with mud, and she holds it as she would a rough and inexpensive dress; so much so, that if it is taken away from her, she suffers little or no displeasure.  Such is our blindness with regard to ourselves.

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 9, 1929 Volume 26

… Now, while I was in this state, my sweet Jesus told me:  “My daughter, each breath is the life of the next one that follows; so much so, that as one is about to release one breath, before it is emitted completely, it calls for another breath.  So, it can be said that the breath has its life and gives life to the creature because it is continuous; they are so united and close among themselves as to be inseparable.  And so also for the beating of the heart:  one heartbeat calls for the life of the next heartbeat, and the continuous beating forms the life; so much so, that if the breathing and the beating cease, life no longer exists.  

“Such is the soul who does and lives in My Divine Will; her identification, her closeness with It, is such and so great—more than are breaths and heartbeats close among themselves.  Therefore, the acts done in My Divine Fiat are like many breaths or heartbeats that the creature does in God, in such a way that she becomes the Divine breathing, and My Fiat forms her breathing; so, it is life that they mutually exchange, to form one single life.  Therefore, the acts done in Our Divine Will are inseparable from Us, and We feel the contentment of breathing Our work, and of feeling, as Our own, the work that has come out of Us, and of letting her live in Our house—and so close to Us as to breathe her very breath.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 8, 1927 Volume 22

I was following the Divine Will in Its acts, in everything It had done in the order of the whole Creation, from the beginning of the world up to the present.  But while I was doing this, I thought to myself:  “What is past is not in my power, therefore it seems a waste of time to me to go on tracing what has passed.”  

At that moment, my sweet Jesus moved in my interior, telling me:  “My daughter, for one who does My Will and lives in It, all times and all places are hers.  My Supreme Will loses nothing of what It does, and with Its own Unique Power, It does the act and It preserves it within Itself, intact and beautiful, just as It did it.  So, one who lives in My Supreme Will finds in It the order of all Its Acts, as if It were doing them at that very instant; and the soul, uniting herself with It, does what My Volition is doing.

“This is all the Delight, the Satisfaction, the Glory of My Will—that while Its Acts are Eternal, the littleness of the creature who lives in It takes Eternity in her power, and finding the Acts of her Creator as though in Act, she repeats with Him, she loves, she glorifies the endlessness of the Acts of He who created her, and so a contest of works, a contest of love and of glory is formed between them. Therefore, the times of Creation are at her disposal, as well as the place of the terrestrial Eden; she has the times of My Incarnation, of My Passion, and Bethlehem, Nazareth and Calvary are not far from her.  Past, distance, do not exist for her, but everything is present and near. …

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 7, 1917 Volume 12

Finding myself in my usual state, I was lamenting to my sweet Jesus because of His privations, and I said to Him: “What a bitter separation! Separated from You — everything is over. I have remained as the most unhappy creature that can exist.” And Jesus, interrupting me, told me: “My daughter, what separation are you talking about? Only then is the soul separated from Me, when she lets enter into herself something that does not belong to Me. Therefore, I enter into the soul, and if I find her will, her desires, her affections, her thoughts, her heart – everything as My own, I absorb her in Me, and I keep melting her will with Mine, with the Fire of My Love, making them one. I melt her desires with Mine, her affections and thoughts with Mine; and once I have formed one single liquid, I pour it over My whole Humanity like a Celestial Dew, which is made of as many drops of Dew for as many offenses as I receive – and they kiss Me, love Me, repair Me, and balm My Embittered Wounds. And since I am in the act of doing good to all, this dew descends for the good of all creatures. 

“But if I find something extraneous in the soul, which does not belong to Me, I cannot melt what is hers into mine, because Love alone has the virtue of melting and becoming one. Only similar things can mix together and have the same value. Therefore, if there is iron, thorns or stones in the soul - how can they melt? And then there are separations, unhappinesses. 

“So, if nothing has entered into your heart, how can I separate from you?”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 6, 1904 Volume 6

Continuing in my usual state, He made Himself seen for a little from within my interior - first Himself alone, and then all Three Divine Persons, but They were all in profound silence.  I continued my usual interior work in Their Presence, and it seemed that the Son would unite with me and I would do nothing but follow Him.  But everything was silence, and in this silence I would do nothing but identify myself with God, and my whole interior, my affections, heartbeats, desires, breaths, would become profound adorations to the Supreme Majesty.  Then, after spending some time in this state, it seemed that all Three of Them were speaking, though one single voice was formed, and They said to me:  “Our beloved daughter, courage, fidelity and greatest attention in following what the Divinity Operates in you, because everything you do, it is not you who does it, for you do nothing other than give the Divinity your soul as residence.  It happens to you as to a poor woman who had a little hovel, and the king asks for it as his residence, and she gives it to him and does everything the king wants.  So, since the king resides in that little hovel, it contains riches, nobility, glory and all goods.  But to whom do they belong?  To the king; and if the king wants to leave, what remains to the poor one?  She is left always with her poverty.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 5, 1931 Volume 29

“… Therefore, it is useless to hope for friends when the poor creature finds herself under the nightmare of humiliations, scorns and calumnies.  So, one must make friends when Heaven smiles at us and fortune would want to put us on a throne, if we want that the good, the works that are wanted, may have life and continuation in other creatures.  By My making friends when I was sowing miracles and triumphs—such that they reached the point of believing that I was to be their King on earth, and therefore, having been My disciples, they were to occupy the first places before Me—even though they abandoned Me in My Passion, when My Resurrection sounded My full Triumph, the Apostles changed their mind, they reunited among themselves and, as triumphers, they followed My Doctrine, My Life, and formed the nascent Church.  Had I paid attention to the fact that they would run away from Me, not making them My disciples in the time of My Triumphs, I would not have had anyone who would speak of Me after My death, who would make Me known.  Therefore, the good times, the glory, are necessary, and it is also necessary to receive piercing nails and to have patience in suffering them, in order to have the materials in My greatest Works, so that they may have life in the midst of creatures. …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 4, 1918 Volume 12

Continuing in my usual state, I was saying to my beloved Jesus: “Do not disdain my prayers. It is Your own Words that I am repeating, Your own Intentions — souls that I want, just as You want them, and with Your own Will.” And blessed Jesus told me: “My daughter, when I hear you repeat My Words, My Prayers, wanting as I want, I feel drawn toward you, as though from many magnets. And as I hear you repeat My Words, My Heart feels many distinct joys, and I can say that it is a feast for Me. And while I enjoy it, I feel debilitated by the love of your soul, and I have no strength to strike the creatures. I feel in you the same chains which I put on the Father in order to reconcile mankind. Ah! yes, repeat what I did — repeat it always, if you want that your Jesus, in the midst of so many bitternesses, may find one joy from the creatures.” …

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 3, 1925 Volume 17

“…Ah, My daughter, with all Redemption and the work of Sanctification, Sanctity in man is incomplete, and for others it is almost useless. Now, I say this: if man does not turn back in order to take My Will as life, as rule and as food, to be purified, ennobled, divinized, to place himself in the Prime Act of Creation, and take My Will as his inheritance, assigned to him by God – the very Works of Redemption and of Sanctification will not have their abundant effects. So, everything is in My Will – if man takes It, he takes everything. It is one single point, which embraces and encloses the goods of Redemption and of Sanctification; even more, for one who lives in My Will, after he has taken the prime point of creation, all these goods serve not as remedy, as for those who do not do My Will, but as glory and as special inheritance, carried upon earth by the Will of the Celestial Father, in the Person of the Word. …”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 2, 1910 Volume 9

As I was feeling very bad and as if everything was over, I was lamenting to Jesus about this total abandonment by Him, and Jesus told me: “My daughter, these are divine ways – to die and to rise again continuously. See, nature itself is subject to these deaths and to these risings: the flower is born and dies - but to rise again more beautiful; while if it never died, it would grow old, it would lose the liveliness of its complexion, the fragrance of its scent… And here is also the simile with my Being, which is ever old and ever new. The seed is sowed under the earth, as though buried so as to make it die; and in fact it dies, to the point of being pulverized, but then it rises again, more beautiful – even more, multiplied; and so with all the rest. If this happens in the natural order, much more in the spiritual order must the soul be subject to these deaths and to these risings, such that while it seems that she has triumphed over everything and abounds in fervor, in graces, in union with Me, in virtues, and that she has acquired as many new lives in everything, I hide Myself and it seems that everything dies around her. I give strokes of a true master, helping to make everything die for her; and when it appears to Me that everything has died for her, like sun, I come out – I unveil Myself, and with Me everything rises again, more beautiful, more vigorous, more faithful, more grateful, more humble, in such a way that, if there was anything human, death has destroyed it, making everything rise again to new life.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - June 1, 1924 Volume 16

This morning I found myself outside of myself, and I saw my last late Confessor, surrounded by many people who were all attentive and as though enraptured in listening to him; and he talked and talked, and was so inflamed as to inflame others. I drew near to listen to what he was saying, and to my surprise, I heard that he was saying all that blessed Jesus had told me – His finesses of Love, the many condescensions of Jesus toward me. And when he spoke about the stratagems of Love of Jesus toward me, he radiated Light, to the extent of remaining transfused within that Light; and not only himself, but also those who were listening to him. I remained surprised, and I said to myself: “The Confessor did not do it only in life – telling the things of my soul to others – but he is doing it also after his death, in the other life…” And I waited for him to finish speaking, in order to approach him and tell him about some of my difficulties; but he would not finish, and I found myself inside myself.

Then, according to my usual way, I followed my beloved Jesus in His Passion, satisfying Him, repairing Him, and making His pains my own. And Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: “My daughter, how much great good the memory of Me and of all that I did, suffered and said in My Life, procures for the soul! By compassionating Me and making My Intentions her own, and by remembering, one by one, My Pains, My Works, My Words, she calls them into herself and places them in nice order within her soul, in such a way as to come to take the Fruits of all I did, suffered and said. This produces a sort of Divine Humidity within the soul, in which the Sun of My Grace delights in rising and in forming a Celestial Dew, by virtue of that Humidity. And this dew does not only embellish the soul in a marvelous way, but It has the virtue of mitigating the rays of the burning Sun of My Divine Justice, when, finding souls burned up by the fire of sin, It is about to strike them, burn them and wither them more and more. By mitigating Its rays, this Divine Dew uses them to form a beneficial Dew, in order to prevent them from striking the creatures, and it becomes vital Humidity so as not to let them wither. Oh, how this symbolizes nature when, after a day of burning sun, the plants are about to wither; and a humid night is enough, because, rising again upon that humidity, the sun forms its dew, and instead of making them die, its heat serves to fecundate them and to complete the maturation of their fruits. 

“This happens more surprisingly in the supernatural order. The memory is the beginning of every good. The memory forms many sips for the soul in order to give her life. When good, when things are forgotten, they lose the vital virtue for the soul; they lose their attractiveness, gratitude, correspondence, esteem, love, value. And this memory does not only produce the origin of every good in life, but also after death, it produces the origin of Glory. Have you not heard your late Confessor – how he delighted in speaking about the graces I have given you? This is because during his life he cared about hearing them, he remembered them, and his interior remained filled with them as to overflow outside. And now, how much good did this not procure for him in the other life? It is for him like a fount of Good which overflows for the good of others. Therefore, the more the soul remembers all that belongs to Me, My Graces, the Lessons I have given her, the more the fount of My Goods grows within her, to the point that, unable to contain them, they overflow for the good of others.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 31, 1936 Volume 34

“… O! how My Public Life symbolizes the Triumph of the Kingdom of My Fiat in the midst of creatures that, with surprising Truths, I will make known. And in order to have the intent, I will make Miracles and Prodigies. With the Power of My Volition I will Recall to Life those dead to grace. I will repeat the Miracle of the Resurrection of Lazarus, that, even though they have putrefied in evil, rendering stinking cadavers like Lazarus, My Fiat will Recall them to Life, It will stop the stench of sin, It will make them Rise Again in Good.  In sum, I will use all My Divine Industries in order to let My Volition Dominate in the midst of the people. See, therefore, in My every Word that I said and in every Miracle that I did, I Called My Will to Reign in their midst, and I Called the people to Live in It.  

“From the Public Life I passed to the Passion, symbol of the Passion of My Will that, for so many centuries, had Suffered so many rebellious wills of the creature, that by not wanting to submit themselves to It, they had closed Heaven, broken the communications with their Creator, and they were rendered unhappy slaves of the infernal enemy. My lacerated Humanity sought death.  Crucified, It represented before the Divine Justice the unhappy humanity without My Volition.  And in every suffering I Called My Fiat to give the Kiss of Peace with creatures in order to render them Happy.  And I Called them into It in order to make the Sorrowful Passion of My Will cease.

“Finally, Death, that matured My Resurrection, that called everyone to Rise Again in My Divine Fiat. And O! how My Resurrection vividly symbolized the Kingdom of My Will. My Humanity wounded, deformed, unrecognizable, Rose Again Healthy, with an Enchanting Beauty, Glorious and Triumphant.  It prepared the Triumph, the Glory to My Will, Calling everyone into It, and impetrating that everyone would Rise Again in My Volition, from the dead to the Living, from ugly to Beautiful, from unhappy to Happy. My Arisen Humanity assures the Kingdom of My Will on earth. It was My Unique Act full of Triumph and Victory, and this was befitting to Me because I did not want to depart for Heaven if first I had not given all the Helps to the creatures, in order to let them reenter into the Kingdom of My Volition, and all the Glory, the Honor, the Triumph, to My Supreme Fiat, in order to let It Dominate and Reign. Therefore unite yourself with Me and let it be that there is no act that you do, and suffering that you suffer, that you do not call My Will to take Its Royal and Dominating Place, and as Victor, Conquer everything in order to make It known, loved and wanted by everyone.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 30, 1905 Volume 6

Continuing in my usual state, I was saying:  ‘Lord, what do You want from me?  Manifest your Holy Will to me.’  And He:  “My daughter, I want you all in Me, so that I may find everything in you.  Just as all creatures had life in My Humanity and I satisfied for all, in the same way, by being all in Me, you will make Me find all creatures in you; that is to say, united with Me, you will make Me find reparation for all, satisfaction, thanksgiving, praise and everything that the creatures are obliged to give Me, within yourself.  In addition to Divine Life and human life, Love administered a third life to Me, which made all the lives of creatures germinate within My Humanity.  This is the Life of Love which, while giving Me life, gave Me continuous death; it beat Me and fortified Me, it humiliated Me and raised Me, it embittered Me and sweetened Me, it tormented Me and gave Me delights.  What does this Life of Love not contain – untiring and ever ready for everything?  Everything, everything can be found in it; its Life is ever New and Eternal.  Oh, how I wish to find this Life of Love in you, so as to have you always in Me, and to find everything in you.”

Divine Will for every day of the year - May 29, 1923 Volume 15

I was accompanying my sweet Jesus in His pains, especially in what He suffered in the Garden of Gethsemani; and while I compassionated Him, moving in my interior, He told me:  “My daughter, the first one to form the crafting of My Pains in my Humanity was My Celestial Father, because He alone had the Strength and the Power to create pain and to place in it as many degrees of pain as were needed in order to be satisfied for the debt of creatures.  Creatures were secondary, because they had no power over Me, nor the ability to create pain as intense as they wanted.

“The same happens in all creatures:  in creating man, the first crafting, both in the soul and in the body, was done by My Divine Father.  How much harmony, how much happiness did He not form with His own hands in the human nature?  Everything is harmony and happiness in man.  The mere external part — how many harmonies and happinesses does it not contain?  The eyes can see, the mouth can express, the feet can walk, the hands can operate and take things where the feet have reached.  But if the eyes could see, but man did not have the mouth to express himself; or if he had feet to walk but no hands to operate – would there not be unhappiness and disharmony in the human nature?  And then, the harmonies and happinesses of the human soul — the will, the intellect, the memory – how many harmonies and happinesses do they not contain?  It is enough to say that they are part of the Happiness and Harmony of the Eternal One.  God created His true personal Eden in the soul and in the body of man – an Eden all Celestial; and then He gave him the terrestrial Eden as residence.  Everything was harmony and happiness in the human nature, and even though sin upset this harmony and happiness, it did not completely destroy all the good which God had created in man.

“So, just as God created with His own hands all the happiness and harmony in the creature, He created all possible pains in Me, to be repaid for the human ingratitude, and to make the lost happiness come out from the sea of My Pains, as well as the accord for the upset harmony.  And this happens to all creatures:  when I must choose them for a distinct sanctity or for My special designs, it is My own hands that work in the soul, and I create in it now suffering, now love, now the knowledge of Celestial Truths.  My Jealousy is such that I want no one to touch her; and if I allow creatures to do something to her, it is always in the secondary order; but I Myself have Primacy, and I keep forming her according to My Design.”