DUST ON THE SOUL (Jesus says to Maria Valtorta:) In the eyes of the world you are as white as Alpine snow. But in my eyes you are still gray, because of the dust covering you. How is the dust formed? Out of particles so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye. But a great many, placed together, make a gray film, tarnishing and dirtying things. It is not necessary to be crushed by boulders, to die of suffocation or to appear ugly. A heap of dust can also kill by asphyxia, and always makes one ugly. The boulders are mortal sins. The dust is venial sins. An imperfection is also dust - finer, but still dust. And it must be removed, for if it accumulates - no matter how imperceptible and insignificant each molecule is - it eventually asphyxiates the spirit and makes it dirty. The world does not see it. I do. There are things which are apparently white, but which are not. Not by their own will, but because other wills have stained and corrupted them. As long as there is life, there is danger. It is life itself which is the danger. Look at the snow. How white it is! It has been formed high up, in my sky. Look at the lily. How pearly it is! I created its silk. But if you look at snow and the lily under a microscope, you see how many germs of impurity have introduced themselves into the whitest snowflake, during its fall through space before landing on earth. And you see how many microscopic bits of dust tarnish the angelical silk of the just-opened lily. For both the snow and the lily, as inanimate things, there is no blame if this occurs. But for the rational soul there is. It can keep watch and make provisions. How? By using love. Love is the microscope of the soul. The more one loves Me and sees things through Me, the more it sees the little stains on its conscience. These do not drive Me away, because I know how you are made. They do not drive Me away, however, if the soul undergoes them as inevitable, but does not provoke them and, on the contrary, immediately seeks to cleanse itself. Always remember this. I remain. Indeed, you should seek to receive Me more often, sacramentally as well. There is nothing but my Blood to wash away the grayness of your soul, and make it worthy of the King, of Me… Notebooks 1943 pp 44-5
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