Divine Will for every day of the year - August 28, 1923 Volume 16

… And Jesus, all goodness: “My daughter, having placed in you the ownership of My Will, I want you not only to possess It, but to be able to keep It, cultivate It, expand It, so as to multiply It. Therefore, pains, mortifications, vigilance, patience, and also My very privation, serve to expand and to keep the boundaries of My Will in your soul.

“It is not enough to possess – but to be able to possess. What good is it for a man to possess a land, if he does not take the care of sowing, cultivating it, keeping it, in order to then harvest the fruits of his hard work? If he does not work his property, even though he possesses it, one could say that he has nothing to eat. Therefore, it is not possessing which renders man rich and happy, but being able to cultivate well what he possesses.

“The same with My Graces, My Gifts, and especially My Will, which I placed in you as a Queen. It wants from you the food, the work of your pains, of your acts. It wants your will, fully subjected to It, to give It in everything the honors and the courting which befit It as Queen. And in everything you do and suffer, It will have its food ready to feed your soul. And so, you on one side, and My Will on the other, will expand the boundaries of My Supreme Will within you.”