The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

February 28, 1912

The sign that one loves only Jesus. How one who loves Him is united with Him.

This morning, as my adorable Jesus came, I told Him: ‘O my Heart, my Life and my all, how can it be known if one loves only You or others?’

"My daughter, if the soul is completely full of Me up to the brim, to the extent of overflowing - that is to say, if she does not think of, search for, speak to and love other than Myself - it seems that nothing else exists for her; rather, the rest bores and bothers her. At the most she gives nothing but scrap- which is not God - like the last thought, a word or one act for a necessary thing of the natural life. This is merely giving what remains to nature; this is what saints do. I did it too, with Myself and with the Apostles, giving dispositions on where to spend the night, what to eat.... Giving all this to nature harms neither love nor the true Sanctity, and it is a sign that the creature loves Me only.

But if the soul is alternating among various things - now she thinks of Me, now of something else; now she talks about Me, and then for a long time about something else, and so on with the rest - this is a sign that she does not love Me only, and I am not happy about it. So, if she squanders herself with everyone and within her own thoughts, keeping for Me only a last thought or word or act, it’s a sign that she does not love Me; and even if she gives Me something, it is nothing other than a miserable scrap. Yet, this is what most creatures do.

Ah, my daughter, those who love Me are united to Me like the branches are united to the trunk of the tree. Can there ever be separation, forgetfulness or different food between the branches and the trunk? One is their life, one the purpose, the same the fruits; or better still, the trunk is the life of the branches, and the branches are the glory of the trunk - they are all the same thing. These are, to Me, the souls who love Me."