Jesus says:
“Yes, I granted you a flower,509 for you are still a woman. And what you are suffering in your sensibility as a woman, which is not understood, causes Me pity.
“But I want you to belong to Me alone. You are not yet so generous that you are able to break all earthly ties and make your heart deaf to earthly voices in order to bind yourself to Me alone and hear Me alone. And then I break. I have you see the wretchedness of human affections and have you compare it to mine. They are tinfoil compared to a sheet of pure gold, or, rather, a block of pure gold. They are splinters of glass compared to the purest diamond. And do you want to dally to gaze at them again and look back at them with regret? O child! But proceed, free and joyful, with the freedom and joy of the blessed!
“There is a sentence on which those of you chosen by Me meditate too little. It is by the Apostle Paul. He says, ‘When it pleased the One who had set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me... at once, without paying heed to flesh and blood....’510 Afterwards Paul went back among the Gentiles. But, out of obedience to God, he had by then ended the ‘being set apart’ initiated by God by setting aside flesh and blood to give himself entirely to true Love.
“You are all people ‘set apart,’ you that I have chosen for a special mission. I spoke to you about this a few days ago (June 27). ‘Depart from your land and your kin.’
“Between the soul that is called and the world a barely perceptible wall rises up, more durable than that of a fortress. You become foreigners to others, while remaining their brothers and sisters, for you, with the tears of your evangelical solitude, work for their good. You do not repudiate them - not you. On the contrary, you love them with perfect love since flesh and blood and profit and affection hold no weight in your love, but only the charity which comes from God and which turns friends and enemies, relatives and strangers, and the good and the wicked into brothers and sisters, for you do not look at their faces and their hearts, but at the Holy Face of God, the Father of all those created, and my heart, loving all men.
“Go further. Go further. The final stretch of the way is the steepest. One must be free of every weight to ascend it. But with every step the horizon expands and the sun gets closer.
“Come. Come. Look at Me alone. Look at this Dwelling, this Country. Not the little, changeable countries of the earth. This eternal one is your House. This eternal one is your Country. This eternal one is your Love. I, I, I: Love.”
509 See the entry for July 5.
510 Galatians 1:15-16.