[Luisa speaking] On hearing this, I said: “My Love, Your Will is everywhere; so, everyone lives in It; yet, not everyone receives this likeness.” And Jesus immediately added: “And what does this has to do with it, My daughter? It is true that all live in My Will, because there is not one point in which My Will is not present, but almost all live in It as foreigners, or as mercenaries; others, by force; others, as rebels. These live in It but do not know It, nor do they know Its goods; on the contrary, they are the usurpers of that very life which they have received from My Will. Each act of these is a dissimilarity that they acquire between their will and that of their Creator; it is the confirmation of their poverty, of their passions, and of the thick darkness with which they fill themselves, in such a way that they are blind to all that is Heaven. In order to reach the parity with My Will, one cannot live as a foreigner, but as the owner; one must look at all things as one’s own, and have all the care for them.
“Therefore, it is necessary to know them, in order to love them and possess them. As beautiful and good as something may be, if it is not totally one’s own, one does not love it, does not esteem it, does not use all the care which it deserves; one always has a cold eye in looking at it, and a heartbeat without life for loving it. On the other hand, if that something is one’s own, one is all eyes to look at it, and all heart to love it; one esteems it, and reaches the point of making of it an idol for his heart. That something in itself has not become more beautiful; what it was, it still is — it has not gone through any change. It is the person who went through a change by acquiring it and keeping it as something exclusively his own. …”