Feb. 14, 2011 Monday: Ardent love for God

The following is  an excerpt from Jesus Appeals to the World: From the Writings of Sr. Consolata Betrone by Lorenzo Sales, IMC.

Jesus speaks to Sr. Consolata:

Tell me, Consolata, which is the more perfect soul: one who is always bewailing to Jesus that she is imperfect, is constantly committing faults, and is unfaithful to her resolutions--or one who is always smiling at Jesus, does what she can to love Him, but does not worry over her involuntary imperfections so as not to lose time; she is intent solely upon continuing to love Jesus. Tell Me which of these souls seems to you to be the more perfect?

Consolata replied, "I like the second one better."

Therefore, do what you can to love Me, and when you realize that you have been unfaithful to Me, offer Me a more ardent act of love, and then take up once again your song of love. Jesus is not a tyrant, and if He forgives an entire lifetime of crime in return for one act of love, then tell Me, how could it be that He would take notice one day of some useless thought on which you had dwelt involuntarily? It is a futile lament and a loss of time to keep repeating to Me: 'Look, Jesus, what I have done; how faithless I have been...' On the contrary, a more ardent act of love enriches your own soul and delights Mine!  Do you understand?...Do not give a thought to your involuntary imperfections!