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If you want your dream to be, build it slow and surely. Small beginning, greater and heartfelt work grows purely.

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Welcome. This is David Russell and Your Faith Anew. Daily Reflections guiding you to live in the divine will. Today's reflection is from the Book of Heaven by the servant of God Louisa Picaretta, April tenth, nineteen hundred, volume three. Let us begin in the will and name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O Jesus, in your holy will we come before you. In the pain of your absence and the longing of the soul, teach us how to love you more deeply. Give us hearts that persevere, desires that reach toward you, and humility that draws you into our souls. May every act become a magnet of love that attracts your divine presence. Amen. Saint Peter writes in his first letter, chapter five, verses five and six. Clothe yourselves, all of you with humility toward one another. For God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in Paragraph twenty seven thirteen. Contemplative prayer is the prayer of the child of God, of the forgiven sinner who agrees to welcome the love by which he is loved and who wants to respond to it by loving even more. In this light, we now enter into Louisa's experience of longing and humility, a soul stretching its wings toward God. Louisa writes Blessed Jesus continues not to come. O God, what an unspeakable pain his privation is. I tried as much as I could to remain at peace and all abandon him, but no. My poor heart could take no more. I did as much as I could to calm it, saying My heart, let us wait a little longer. Who knows he might come. Let us use some stratagems to draw him to come. So, turning to him, I said Lord, come. It is getting late, and you have not come yet. This morning I'm trying to remain calm as much as I can, yet you do not let yourself be found. Lord, I offer you the martyrdom of your privation as proof of love and as a gift to induce you to come. It is true that I am not worthy, but it is not because I am worthy that I look for you. Rather, I do it out of love, and because without you I feel life missing in me. And since he was not coming, I said to him, Lord, either you come or I will tire you with my speaking. And when you are tired, even then you are not going to come. But who can say all my nonsense? I told him so many things that I would be too long if I wanted to say everything. After this, I just barely saw my sweet Jesus moving in my interior, as if he was waking up from asleep. Then he showed himself more clearly, and transporting me outside of myself, he told me just as the bird flaps its wings when it must fly, so does the soul flap the wings of humility at the flights of her desires. And in that flapping, she sends a magnet that attracts me in such a way that while she takes wing to come to me, I take wing to go to her. Ah Lord, it shows that I lack the magnet of humility. If I could spread the magnet of humility everywhere on my path, I would not have to struggle so much in waiting and waiting for your coming. What a beautiful image Jesus gives. Humility as wings, and even more as a magnet. Louisa struggles in the absence of Jesus, expressing honestly the ache of her heart. Yet in that very longing, something deeper is revealed. The soul does not draw God by strength, by effort, or by worthiness, but by humility. Humility becomes the movement of the soul that attracts God. It's not passive, it's active, alive, reaching, like wings beating in the air. And every act of humility sends out a call that God cannot resist. In the divine will, this takes on even greater meaning. Every humble act, every surrender, every admission of our need becomes united with the humility of Jesus Himself. And when our acts enter His will, they become divine magnets, drawing not only grace for ourselves, but for all. Louisa recognizes the struggle. Waiting, longing, speaking, even what she calls nonsense. Yet Jesus does not reject her. Instead, he reveals the secret. The very desire, when clothed in humility, brings him running. So often we think we must feel holy or be worthy before approaching God. But here we learn the opposite. It's precisely in our poverty, our longing, our inability, that humility is formed. And that humility draws him closer than ever. To live in the divine will is to let every desire, every prayer, every longing be fused with humility, so that our whole life becomes a constant attraction of God's presence. Let us pray. Oh Jesus, I come before you in my nothingness. I acknowledge that without you I can do nothing. Yet with you all things become possible. Give me the wings of humility, that my soul may rise toward you in every act, in every breath, in every desire. Let my longing for you never grow cold, but become a living flame that draws you into my soul. In your divine will, I unite my acts with yours, so that each one may carry the power of your humility and love. Spread this magnet of humility through my thoughts, my words, my actions, so that you may find in me a place of rest. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Amen. Thank you for joining your faith anew today. May your heart be filled with the quiet strength of humility, knowing that every small act done in surrender draws God nearer to you. Do not be discouraged in the waiting. Your desire itself is already calling him. Until tomorrow, stay in his will, and your faith will be made anew.

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If you want your dream to be, build it slow and surely. Small beginning, greater end. Heartfelt work grows pure.