The Book of Heaven
—Unofficial Version—

May 12, 1905

The means not to lose the love of Jesus.

As I was in my usual state, my blessed Jesus came for just a little, and on seeing Him, I don’t know why, I said to Him:  ‘Lord, still, this is something that lacerates my soul… the thought that I might lose your love.’

And He:  “My daughter, who told you this?  In all things my paternal goodness has administered the means to help the creature, as long as these means would not be rejected.  So, the means not to lose my love is to hold my love and everything that regards Me as if it were one’s own.  Can one lose all that is his?  Certainly not.  At the most, if he has no esteem for something that is his own, he will not have the care to keep it in a safe place; but if he has no esteem for it and does not keep it in a safe place, it is a sign that he does not love it, and therefore that object no longer contains the life of love and cannot be numbered among his own things.  But when one makes my love his own, he esteems it, he keeps it in a safe place, he always keeps an eye on it, in such a way that he cannot lose what is his, either in life or in death.”