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

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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 24, 1927, volume 21. Let us begin in the will and name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, in the midst of upheaval and uncertainty, grant us the grace to trust in your divine providence. Teach us to look beyond present trials and see the eternal order you are bringing forth. May our hearts remain steadfast, receiving your continuous outpouring of love, and may we respond with love in return, living always in your divine will. Amen. Saint Paul writes in the letter to the Romans chapter eight verse twenty eight. We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph three hundred fourteen. We firmly believe that God is master of the world and of its history. But the ways of His providence are often unknown to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God face to face, will we fully know the ways by which, even through the dramas of evil and sin, God has guided His creation to that definitive Sabbath rest for which he created heaven and earth. Even when chaos surrounds us, God is not absent. He's at work reordering all things toward his divine purpose. Louisa writes I was feeling embittered because of the privation of my sweet Jesus, and while I was longing for his return, he came out from within my interior, but so afflicted as to arouse pity. And I said to him, But tell me what's wrong that you are so afflicted? And Jesus Ah, my daughter, grave things are to happen. In order to reorder a kingdom, a house, a general uproar happens first, and many things perish. Some lose, others gain. In some there is chaos, a greater struggling, and many things are suffered in order to reorder, renew, and give a new shape to the kingdom or the house. There is more suffering and more work to do if one must destroy in order to rebuild than if one only had to build. The same will happen in order to rebuild the kingdom of my will. How many innovations need to be made? It is necessary to turn everything upside down, to knock down and destroy human beings, to upset the earth, the sea, the air, the wind, the water, the fire, so that all may put themselves at work in order to renew the face of the earth, so as to bring the order of the new kingdom of my divine will into the midst of creatures. Therefore, many grave things will happen, and in seeing this, if I look at the chaos, I feel afflicted. But if I look beyond, in seeing the order and my new kingdom rebuilt, I go from a deep sadness to a joy so great that you cannot comprehend. This is the reason why you see me now sad, and now with the joy of my celestial fatherland. I felt sad because of this uproar that Jesus had talked to me about. Those grave things were terrifying. I could hear tumults, revolutions, and wars in several places. Oh how my poor heart moaned. And Jesus, to cheer me, took me in his arms, pressed me tightly to his most holy heart, and told me, My daughter, let us look beyond, that we may be cheered. I want to make things return as in the beginning of creation that was nothing other than an outpouring of love. And it still lasts, because whatever we do once, we do always. It's never interrupted. No tiredness of repeating an act ever enters into us. Whatever we do once, we like to do always. This is the divine operating, to do an act that lasts for centuries upon centuries, even for all eternity. So our outpouring of love, our breath is unleashed continuously from our divine womb, and it runs to breathe over the generations of creatures. So, hovering within all creation, our outpouring of love invests heavens and earth, sun and sea, wind and water, and it runs toward creatures. If it were not so, the heavens would shrink, the stars would be scattered, the sun would become poor in light, the water would be lacking, the earth would produce neither plants nor fruits, because since the life of our love hovering within all things would be missing, these would withdraw into our source from which they came. And if our breath were to be missing, the generation of creatures would end, because they are nothing other than sparks that our breath sends out in order to fecundate the growing generation. Now, creatures take what is material in created things, and leave the life of love that, hovering within everything, remains suspended, unable to give itself. It happens as one goes into a flowery field or into a garden in which there are trees loaded with precious fruits. If one only looks at a flower and does not pick it, he will not receive the taste and the life of the fragrance of the flower. If one looks at a fruit and does not pick it from the tree in order to eat it, he will not enjoy it, nor will he receive the life of the fruit. So it is with all creation. Man looks at it, but he does not receive the life of love placed by God in all created things, because man does not place his will, nor does he open his heart to receive this continuous outpouring of love of his Creator. But in spite of this, our outpouring of love does not stop. Our regenerative breath is always in act and in motion, and we wait for the kingdom of our divine fiat so that this love of ours, hovering around, may descend into the midst of creatures and give our divine life. And in receiving it, the creatures will form their own outpouring of love and give it to him from whom they receive it. Therefore, my daughter, the whole creation is centralized over you. I look at you from the starry heavens, and I send you this outpouring of love. I look at you from the sun, and breathing over you, I send you my divine life. I look at you from the sea, and in its foaming and mighty waves I send you my love that being constrained, I unload with might over you like a sea. I look at you from the wind, and I pour over you my ruling, purifying, warming love. I look at you from the mountains, and I send you the outpouring of my firm and unshakable love. There is not one place or created thing from which I do not look at you to pour love over you. In fact, since my will is in you, you draw me from all sides to look at you, because my will expands your capacity to receive my continuous outpouring of love. Wherever my divine will reigns, I can give everything, I can centralize everything. And a contest arises between creator and creature. I in giving, she in receiving. I give and she gives to me. She gives to me and I give in yet more superabundant ways. Therefore, always in my will do I want you, that we may be always in a contest, I with you and you with me. This passage places us at the intersection of fear and hope. Jesus does not deny the reality of upheaval. He speaks of chaos, upheaval, and even destruction. Yet he reveals something essential. Disorder is not the final word. To rebuild, there must first be a tearing down. This is true in the world, but it's also deeply personal. The kingdom of the divine will cannot fully reign in us without first confronting the structures of the human will that resist it. And yet, Jesus immediately redirects our gaze. Let us look beyond. This is the key to living in the divine will. Not denying suffering, but seeing through it. God sees both the chaos and the final order simultaneously. What appears to us as loss is in Him already part of restoration. Then comes one of the most comforting revelations. Creation itself is an ongoing outpouring of love. God does not create once and withdraw. He continuously gives. Every breath, every movement of nature, every ray of the sun is an act of divine love in motion. The tragedy is not God has stopped giving, but that we don't receive. Like someone walking through a garden without tasting the fruit. We pass through creation without absorbing the divine life within it. Living in the divine will changes this. It opens the soul to receive what is already being given. And then something extraordinary happens. A contest of love between creator and creature. God gives, the soul receives and returns. And God responds with even greater abundance. This is not passive spirituality. This is participation in the very life of God. Let us pray. O divine will, eternal outpouring of the Father's love, teach my soul to look beyond what I see. When the world trembles, when my heart is unsettled, anchor me in your eternal order. Let me not walk through creation blind, but awaken my soul to receive the life of love hidden in all things. May every breath I take be a response to your breath. May every act I do be united to your eternal act. Draw me into that holy exchange, that divine contest of love, where you give and I receive, and I return to you what you have given. O Jesus, keep me always in your will, that your outpouring may never be lost in me, but may live, grow, and return to you in love. Amen. Thank you for joining your faith anew today. Even in times of upheaval, remember, God is not absent. He's working, restoring, and pouring out his love without ceasing. Stay attentive, stay open, and allow his divine will to transform every moment into an eternal act of love. 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 and heartfelt work grows.