He and I by Gabrielle Bossis

Author:Gabrielle Bossis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pauline Books and Media
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

1946

January 1—“The keynote? Faithfulness, with the thought of comforting the heart of your Christ.”

January 2—On my way home from Mass I bought a loaf of bread.

“You see the difference? Bread for the body and the living Bread.”

January 3—Le Fresne.

I thought of the way I had been spoiled by everyone at Nantes and of all the good things awaiting me here, with the magnificent panorama of the Loire river gilded by the intense cold, and I said, “How beautiful and good You are everywhere, Lord!”

“Then why do you have such difficulty in believing in My love? This scenery that you find so enchanting is My love. And that sunset that calls to your mind a bleeding Host. . . . All the kindness you received during your eight days in Nantes and that unexpected opportunity you had of being really helpful—isn’t it perfectly clear to you now that My love arranged all this for you? Then why didn’t this thought occur to you without My having to remind you? You always think that these things just happen. Nothing just happens. I am in everything. And I am all love. Be imbued with this thought.”

“How can I?”

“Look at it often in your heart. By trying, by trying again and again you will become sure. You will live with love. You will never leave love. And when you call Me, you will no longer say, ‘My God’ but, ‘My love.’ And this will be the reality. And your heart will be flooded with tenderness as the soil by a torrent.

“But think, dwell upon love, since this pleases Me. I so yearn for you to believe. What a poor idea you have of Me! Remember that man is made in the image of God. Does a child understand his father? Aren’t there mysterious bonds between them? And isn’t it love that gives life to the heart?

“Why are you on the defensive? Why do you run away? Come!”

January 10—Flu: feverish, dazed, coughing.

“Lord, shall I be able to take down Your dear words today?”

“Haven’t I always taken your inability into account? Even when you were traveling and when we were not always alone? Has anything changed in our heart-to-heart communion? Don’t you find in this the adaptability of a Presence, the Presence of your God?

“Then don’t worry about anything. Come as a little girl who has to be taken by the hand. Humble yourself always as someone utterly useless.

“You remember the joy you felt this week during your illness? ‘Perhaps I’m going to the Father’s home,’ you thought. And your soul was flooded with peace and longing. Never think that this comes from you. Even the thought could not occur to you if the Spirit didn’t inspire it. I want you always to keep in mind your constant poverty. It honors Me for you to do so, and it is the true picture of yourself. You were conscious of it when you felt an astonishing force, and with it came the thought, ‘What is the use

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