Jesus feels a great need for His mercy to be put to use. Well then, make Him happy and each time you feel the weight of your wretchedness, give it to Him. There’s nothing he wants more than to consume our wretchedness in the fire of His mercy. He’s made for this, because He’s a Savior.
And you who can procure so much wretchedness for him to burn, why are you sad? Instead of looking at your own soul, why don’t you look at His thirst for consuming, annihilating wretchedness?
How few are the souls that understand this. And so they keep in their soul a rotting pile of garbage, which, if it were given to Jesus, could be transformed into Mercy! which is Fire!
It’s like putting fuel on the fire, it becomes fire. Therefore, from now on, whenever you feel oppressed by your wretchedness, you’ll rejoice at having something to give for Jesus to burn.
Chiara Lubich
From a letter written by the author during the early years of the Focolare Movement
September 5, 1948
