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Creator rested in my tabernacle - finding His delight in her, His
Paradise.
From all eternity He had her in mind and established her in His
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love: “I loved you with an everlasting love ”. He had always
loved her. Just like a skilful sculptor who forms in his own mind
a beautiful statue: he sees it beautifully fashioned and
established in his mind, and loves it even before he carves it
out. God has done like that with us. From all eternity we have
dwelt in his divine mind, and he has always loved us. “I loved
you with an everlasting love”.
And so, what shall we do in this poor earthly dwelling when our
whole being has been totally divinized in God? ... Ah! Let us
rise aloft unto the stars, let us lift ourselves to the heavens
above, let us enter our homeland and join the citizens of
Heaven. My God! Since it is from you that I have come, grant
me the grace to fly to you more speedily, without lingering a
moment longer in this dark prison.
What have I to do here on earth, in this vale of tears and of
misfortunes? It is to you, my God that I aspire, for you my
heart is yearning. When shall I come and see the face of God?
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And again: I long to be dissolved, and be with Christ . But
since this is not granted me and I am compelled to live, and
1 Original in Latin “Qui creavit me, requievit in tabernaculo meo”.
2 Original in Latin “In charitate perpetua dilexi te”.
3 Original in Latin “Quando veniam et apparebo ante faciem Dei? - Cupio
dissolvi et esse cum Christo”.
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