The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

December 10, 1903

Every time the soul seeks the Lord, she receives a divine shade, a divine feature.

Continuing in my usual state, I felt a weight over my soul, as if the whole world weighed upon me because of the privation of blessed Jesus; and in my immense bitterness I did as much as I could to look for Him.  Then, once He came, He told me:  “My daughter, every time the soul looks for Me, she receives a divine shade, a divine feature, and is reborn in Me as many times, and I am reborn in her.”  While He was saying this, I was thinking of what He had said, almost surprised, and I said:  ‘Lord, what are You saying?’  And He added:  “Oh, if you knew the glory - the taste that the whole of Heaven feels in receiving this note from the earth:  a soul that constantly seeks God, all similar to them.  What is the life of the Blessed?  What is it that forms it?  Their being reborn continuously in God, and God in them.  This is the saying:  ‘God is ever old and ever new’.  Nor do they ever feel tired, because they are in continuous attitude of new life in God.”