Notebook 96
True Life in God
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deifying them in Our one Substance, and
in Our one Will ....
O glory be to our Triune God,
God of heaven and earth,
in whose power
all creation will bend its knees;
glory be to Him
from generation to generation
in the Church;
Let us all proclaim:
there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism
and one God who is Father of all,
through all and within all;
and that there is one true theology:
that of contemplating God
in His Triune Glory
and in His Divine Mystery!
be blessed; in the sight of all heaven, I,
your Eternal Father, bless you giving you
the unction of My Divine Love on your
forehead;
November 30, 1998
Lord,
allow me to find the promised joy
at the end of the path
You have laid out for me;
for this, Righteous Father,
teach me to be dressed
by righteousness and courage;
O Lord! Your House is continuously
being battered by rebellion
and there is no sign yet
of unifying the dates of Easter;
not really visible; not yet ....
You have turned my life into a sobbing flute
from the moment You’ve baptised me
by immersing me
in the Lake of Agony of Your Heart!
Yes, I know that I have been called
by Divine Power Himself
and that I am in the embrace
of a living Defender
and that He will triumph
over all the dust of this earth;
but after my awakening,
I am still in my flesh –
O Interpreter of my thoughts,
let not Your harp, as You call me,
be tuned to dirges,
for I would commit a sin;
let not Your affection test me
as much as it is testing me now.
daughter, stop babbling; I am right now
standing affectionately in front of you,
reminding you that it is impossible to be
in My company without Me sharing with
you My Passion and without your traits
becoming Mine; ah, and in our intimate
union and in our embrace I have given
you the unction of My Love to become
another living crucifix, another slave to
be sold to the world; if I immersed you
in what you called rightly the Lake of
Agony in My Heart, look what this
baptism has brought you,
what
fragrance, what imperial vestments; I
have treated you as I treat My chosen
ones;
1
behold, I have been clothing you with
My Son, Jesus Christ;
and I,
2
I who am the Gateway through
which the virtuous enter heaven, tell you
solemnly: remain as a lily, having been
distilled by pure myrrh in that Lake of
Agony which in reality represents the
Tears of Christ, so that We would say to
Our beloved: “how fragrant your
perfume, more fragrant than all the
other spices, adorned with Our ineffable
Light, keep spreading your sweet
fragrance so that you find the promised
joy at the end of the path We prepared
1
Suddenly the Father spoke.
2
The Holy Spirit then spoke.
© Vassula Rydén