*TENDERNESS OF JESUS*
"My daughter," Jesus said embracing me, *"I give myself entirely to you and you will be entirely mine."* I saw clearly that Jesus had taken my parents from me and sometimes this made me discouraged, because I believed myself abandoned. That morning I complained to Jesus about this and he, always so good and tender, said to me: _"My daughter, I will always be with you. I will be your father and she_ (indicating our Mother of Sorrows) _will be your mother. *He who is my hands can never lack fatherly help.* You will *never lack anything* even though I have taken away from you all earthly consolation and support. Come, *draw near to me,* you are my daughter. Are you not happy to be the daughter of Jesus and Mary?"_ The overwhelming affections to which Jesus gave rise in my heart kept me from answering.
After about two hours had passed I arose. Those in the house wept for joy. I too was happy, not because I was cured but because Jesus had chosen me to be his daughter. Before leaving me that morning Jesus said to me: _"To the grace that has been given you this morning there will be added many more and greater ones."_ And this has been so true because Jesus has always protected me in a special way. I have treated him only with coldness and indifference and in exchange he has given me only signs of infinite love.
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