As I was feeling oppressed, I was almost about to be surprised by the poisonous waves of disturbance. My lovable Jesus, my faithful sentry, immediately ran to prevent disturbance from entering into me, and scolding me, told me: “Daughter, what are you doing? The love and the interest I have to maintain the soul at peace are such and so great that I am forced to make miracles in order to keep the soul at peace; and those who disturb these souls would want to confront Me and prevent this miracle of mine, all of love. So, I recommend to you—be balanced in everything. My Being is in full balance in everything, and yet I do see and feel evils, and bitternesses I do not lack. Nevertheless, I never become unbalanced, My peace is perennial, My thoughts are peaceful, My words are honeyed with peace, the beating of My Heart is never tumultuous, even in the midst of immense joys or interminable bitternesses; the very operating of My hands in the act of scourging flows over the earth as enveloped in waves of peace. So, if you do not maintain yourself at peace, since I am in your heart I feel dishonored, and My way and yours are no longer in accord; I would feel hindered in you from carrying out My ways in you, and therefore you would render Me unhappy. Only peaceful souls are My staffs on which I lean; and when the many iniquities snatch scourges from my hands, by leaning on these staffs I always do less than what I should do. Ah! if—may it never be—I lacked these staffs, in lacking My supports I would send everything to ruin.”