Dear friend
What you desire, so there is your treasure.
If you desire God with all your heart, mind and spirit, you will find Him. You will find Him because He draws you to Himself; He seeks you first, loves you first and so therefore you seek and love Him. No-one who truly seeks God does not find Him.
Make Jesus your treasure; indeed He is the only treasure. He is Truth, in humanity and Divinity, the Truth of everything. Jesus wasn’t just a wise man with a bunch of good ideas sent down from heaven to tell us how to lead a better life for the rewards to be seen here and now in this life.
Jesus is the face of the Father, Jesus is Almighty God and so He is Truth Incarnate and His rewards are eternal Love. Not a concept to be toyed with, nor something to be played with.
You have met Jesus by His grace and He has graced your heart with the Holy Spirit. Do you think the meek and humble of Heart Jesus, is going to act anything other than this? No, He doesn’t, Jesus is so gentle we have to be very still and very silent to even notice His Presence.
This is the first flush of Love of God and so your friends are as babies, fed from the breast with many consolations and excitements. This is indeed a beautiful period, but this period will end and we have to stand in faith and by faith with or without these excitements and consolations, which is an even more beautiful period.
I can assure you, when you think God has left you ( I say ‘think’ because it is never true, God never leaves us) and you feel weak and trembling in faith, God is ever more closer to you than you can ever imagine. As St Paul says ‘it is when I am weak that I am truly strong’ because this is precisely when God is ever closer to you, upholding you in His gift of faith.
Your friends are being fed on milk and you friend are being put down from the breast and asked to stand in faith.
Pray. Beside your daily work and loving others…Pray! That is all you should do now, just pray and persevere. Keep the Sacraments and Pray. Ask for the gift of perseverance. So many give up, precisely when they should fight the good fight all the harder, that is the race friend, that is what it is all about, embracing the gift of faith at all times despite ourselves and all other surrounding events. The Father grants the gift of faith to all men and so many ignore it, so many embrace it only to fall away when the going gets tough, some go on for awhile but get weary and some go on and on and persevere despite everything to the end. Jesus’ parable of the sower shows this. God has no favourites, He gives so generously to all never giving up on His children, it is they who forsake Him, it is ourselves that lose will to follow His Will.
True zest for God is persevering in faith despite all emotions and surrounding circumstances.
You must pray more and ardently, surrendering will , spirit, soul and heart to your Divine lover , who loves you to such an extent you cannot endure it in this life, it is so encompassing.
Pray!
I will remember you before the Blessed Sacrament in prayer
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa