Divine Will for every day of the year - July 14, 1904 Volume 6

…Then, this morning, after much struggling – oh, how much! – He [Jesus] came for just a little and told me:  “My daughter, life is a continuous consummation.  Some consume it for pleasures, some for creatures, some for sinning, others for interests, some for whims… There are many kinds of consummation.  Now, one who forms this consummation all in God, can say with all certainty:  ‘Lord, my life has been consumed with love for You, and I have not only consumed myself, but I have died for love of You alone.’  Therefore, if you feel yourself being consumed continuously because of My separation, you can say that you are dying continuously in Me, and that you suffer many deaths for love of Me.  And if you consume your being for Me, as great as the consummation of yourself is, so much do you acquire of the Divine within yourself.”