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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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