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your virtues may be felt everywhere and that you may be
edifying to all.
Dearly beloved, Jesus wants to have your heart, your love. He
is jealous of your purity. He is ardently seeking you and wishes
you to be his in a most special way.
Heaven is beautiful, too, and it is worth every effort we can
make to obtain it. But our dear Jesus himself is much more
beautiful and it is for his sake alone that we should do all
things.
We are most blessed if we could love God from our heart: that
would be an anticipated Heaven. What else can we desire
more than that? ... At the point of death how happy we shall be
if we can say: I shall soon possess what I have always
yearned for, and loved with all my heart!
Allow me to add one thing: for a long time I have not been able
to see you nor speak to you without sensing the divine grace
at work within you and wanting to tell you that he expects

something great from you: I seem to see this even drawn on
your countenance. In my cold and poor prayers I cannot forget
you: I keep telling the Lord to let himself be heard clearly and
be obeyed by you.
I ardently desire to see you soon as a great Saint; I wish to
see you madly in love with Jesus, I wish to see you raised to
the sublime heights of holiness.
Forgive me, my dear, if I speak to you with such liberty;
the sincere love I have for you, your goodness of heart I am
too well aware of, have made me so bold.

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