O thank Me for your creation. Turn your life toward Me. Never cease to look at My love enfolding you; and feeling loved, love Me.

 22 Aug 2014

HE And i Gabrielle Bossis

1940 November 4  -   Nantes. Recreation time.

 "Do you at last believe with all your heart that I created you in order to make you eternally happy? 

It was out of pure love that I made you  -  not for My own interest but for yours: to give you infinite bliss.

O thank Me for your creation. 

Turn your life toward Me. 

Never cease to look at My love enfolding you; and feeling loved, love Me.

You know how much more intensely one loves when one feels loved. 

It's like an animated conversation. 

Only in this one there is no need of any words. 

We love; that's all. 

And I am so much yours that you don't even feel that I come down or that you rise up, but it seems quite simple to you that we talk to each other on the same level, share as equals, even exchange our two hearts, since for Bridegroom and bride everything is in common, and although you give yourself utterly, you keep your personality and only enhance it the more. "

Six times to let sense through, and so attune to His love.

Gabrielle Bossis.
April 17 – 1948

Gabrielle's sentence gripped my wondering,
It takes some time to get her drift....

The syntax did not hang together.

There is magnetism in pondering, and in chewing the cud.

Gabrielle's words skip breaths. 

Then His voice listens, and His word switches on light.
'This is His love.'  'Is it so difficult to think of your Lord.'    

Gabrielle Bossis HE AND i

1948 April 17 - 

"Lord, I should so love to live Your words, 

and I am always myself, 

still my old self."

 "Is it so difficult to think of your Lord? Is it so difficult to talk with Him and to keep Him company?

When you meet someone in a  waiting room, don't you instinctively approach that person and in a kindly way do your best to make the time pass pleasantly for him? And if he were a poet, or a scholar, or someone great in the eyes of the world, wouldn't you go even further and show more joy?

My child, it’s a God who is waiting at the door of your heart, a God who is all yours and who is in you. You open to Him when you talk to Him, when you look at Him, when you try to take your thoughts off the things around you so that you may turn them to Him with the utmost tenderness.

Don't think that this is a fable I'm telling you. It is the simple reality. But as it's all happening in the shadow land where everything is imperfection, you find it difficult to believe, and you are slow in acting upon it. That is why I am like that person in the waiting room. If only you could approach Me more often with all your kind charm, you might suspect My long yearnings. You might think, 'He's waiting for the world.' Yes, My little child, for everyone, and for such a long, long time... I came to Bethlehem to seek them and I shall go on seeking them right to the end of the world.

This is the patience of God. This is His love. Then how could you ever understand? Yet it would be very sweet to believe, wouldn't it? So quicken your faith by telling Me about it often. More often. Don't get weary: you will hope more and love more. It's your great God who wants you greatly, My very frail little girl."

He and I, Gabrielle Bossis Jan. 1938

'Tenderhearted': a 'concordance' of the pages of HE AND i shows occurrences of the word 'tenderness' and cognates, on 155 occasions.

"go up higher. Hide yourself in the Cleft of the Rock." (Hisheart).

The thought spreads; Dictionary of Bible Themes: 5966 tenderness ...

Ephesians 4:32  (RSV)

^...and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

1938  

January 1 -  Keynote for the year:  

"This year you will love Me in My brothers. Do for them what you would do for Me.

If I give you favours of tenderness, it is to encourage you to stoop to make sacrifices for your  brothers. Give as you have received. I want to go down to the very heart of your heart and make My home there. It will be simple and habitual."

January  2 - While I was mending my gloves, I was wondering, "Does this count for love?" And He replied,

 "When I was planing wood, didn't this count for the salvation of the world?"

January 4 - "Consolations? Give them to others."

January 15 -  Notre Dame. During my stations of the cross before leaving for Brest.

 "At each of the stations you will think about My love."

 In the train.

"Be careful. I want you to go up higher. Hide yourself in the Cleft of the Rock." (Hisheart).