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beginning to align itself more closely with God's divine will. And quite often, when we profoundly feel that we still do not fully comprehend or understand, these persistent anxieties, these nagging doubts, these profound uncertainties come to us. It's nothing more than the desire we have to do God's will right now. And it's an immense grace.
Sometimes people get a little desperate because they often struggle to truly discern and consistently follow the perfect and divine path to walk in God's sacred will. And consequently, they experience a profound sense of apprehension, a deep-seated fear, and an intense yearning longing that profoundly disturbs and unsettles their very souls. But that's the clearest sign. That's the clearest sign that someone has been born into God's will. Those who don't have these desires, who don't feel that inner restlessness to say, "Well, how do I do God's will?" It's because they haven't been born into God's will.
Sometimes it seems like it's the opposite. "I would like to be born into God's will. How do I do it? What do I say? What do I do? Is it I've already been born? Is it that I've already been born?" It's very beautiful to see that with the experience one has. And Father Carlos agreed. That's how it is. It's truly a beautiful and profoundly moving experience to witness a person who is deeply troubled, who feels profoundly unsettled within their spirit precisely because they are grappling with a fundamental uncertainty and a lack of clear understanding regarding how to genuinely fulfill God's divine will and purpose in their life. And that's already such a great grace.
Meanwhile, there are millions and millions of people who don't even think about wanting to do God's will. Those have not been born to the will of God. Those want to continue with God's will at their service without even considering it as clearly as it is stated here. Because after this chapter, after this agony of the divine will in us in creatures, when you read those chapters, at least that's what happens to me. You read about the agony of the divine will in creatures and you start thinking about the other creatures. Yes, you tend to look outward. Uh, how many people are so indifferent to the will of God. But no, you have to bring this to a personal level. I also have that habit and I give you that advice. When it says in Louisa's writings, "the creatures," I don't put "the creatures" there. I put "Jose Luis." The agony of the divine will in the creatures. No, the agony of the divine will in Rosuis, in me. Instead of looking at society and saying, "How bad they are, so many sinners, how terrible," right? In me. How is that agony of the divine will? In me, struggling and fighting within me because it wants to become my life. The problems of society. No, my own problems, my pangs of conscience are nothing other than that divine will agonizing in me, which I have suffocated. And I don't let it develop its life as it wishes. And to my own detriment, I don't let it unfold its infinite beauty in every act I perform, as I was saying yesterday. But instead, I keep it at my service. That's why it's very easy to live in the divine will.
We have a truly divine will, immense indeed, infinite, with a powerful divine essence that profoundly wants to live within us always, which we're already half alive in the sense that it gives us our heartbeat, our breath, our entire existence. And it wants to burst forth within us in every act we do. As Father Carlos was saying a while ago, this divine will that comes to reign is easy. And it is an immense grace from God to receive it now in its triumphant mode. And now we have inside, we have inside a bomb that's going to explode. The fuse is already lit. Just like in cartoons where the little characters have a bomb with its fuse and it's burning. And everyone runs, right? That's how we have this divine will inside us like a bomb with its fuse lit. How are you going to receive the explosion? Will it be through love, or are you going to defend yourself? It's going to explode inside you. That is precisely why it is truly easy to live in the divine will because the entirety of the work and the immense power inherently belong to the divine will and it profoundly desires to live within each and every one of us. I would rather ask you, how are we going to manage not to live in the divine will? What a truly tremendous and monumental effort will we have to make indeed to effectively suppress that incredibly dangerous and ticking bomb that's relentlessly going off deep inside each and every one of us, constantly threatening to explode, which is called the divine will and wants to become our life. It will take a lot of effort and a lot of stubbornness to say, "I don't want to." Because right now is the time when we say, "I want to," along the triumphant path. But the time will come when others will have to say, "I don't want to," when the moment of the manifestation of justice arrives. So it's much easier to live in God's will than not to live in it. Not living in the will of God means opposing an infinite will of, I repeat, tremendous power that wants to burst forth within us. So that's actually the easiest thing to do. It's much harder to say, "I don't want to." However, there will be many who say, "I don't want to," and the bomb will explode inside them. That explosive force that wants to come alive throughout our entire being with all its qualities to give us in each of our actions all the qualities that the divine will contains.
And what is left for us? Well, to try to discover in what ways the divine will wants to act within us to remove, as much as we possibly can, notice that will of ours, our own will that wants to act without the divine will of God. But for those who are already on this side, like those people I mentioned at the beginning who have the desire to live in the divine will and whose concern is that they don't know how to do it, what are you already doing about it? It's as if I were to say to any of you, "Hey, I don't know how to show you my love." You would think, "Oh, well, this person really does love me." If they already want to show me their love, but don't know how, it means they love me a lot. It's the same with us and God. "My God, I don't know how to do it. What should I do?" You're already there. The rest, as I always say, is just to get to know a little more each time about how this divine will truly wants to live in us so that we can accompany it in what it wants to do. I truly think that when you see things in this manner, living in the divine will indeed becomes much gentler.
Yesterday, someone also asked, and we talked about trust. Having this trust that the divine will is going to give us its life in what we do, even if we don't see anything, but knowing that in everything, our intention is to let it develop its life in the smallest things, in what we're doing right now, in the words you are hearing, in the heart that is beating them. There you have to say, "My God, that explosion of your will, that bomb I have inside. I don't want to keep it suppressed anymore. I want it to explode." In every glance I give, in every word I hear, in every movement of my legs, in every blink I make. There. God doesn't need big things to do great things. God has the divine will has the ability to draw from the smallest things the greatest wonders one can imagine. What happened with the blessed Virgin? From the very smallest, most seemingly insignificant things, this profound divine will knew precisely how to draw forth vast, immense seas of creation, of divine motherhood. The blessed Virgin, who would say, "How will I do it?" No, the blessed Virgin would say, "I have a divine will and a divine motherhood within my reach, and in everything I do, it is the outpouring of that divine motherhood and that divine will that I possess." And she would not be saying, "Will it be or will it not be?" or "How will I do it?" Simply, she continued her earthly existence and journey with a profound knowledge and deep awareness that in every single act she consciously performed, even the most seemingly insignificant act, it was that powerful and magnificent explosion of the divine will, that even the most minute and humble act graciously afforded her the profound opportunity. It was the perfect means for the divine will to intimately join with her every act completely and utterly and to bountifully produce and skillfully know how to draw out from every single, even the smallest act, boundless and infinite oceans of pure love, of immense glory, of sacred divine holiness.
We measure things in a human way. And as we were saying the other day as well, we see greater acts and lesser acts, things of more importance, things of less importance. But in the divine will, it is not like that. A soul that lives in the divine will, anything is a great thing because from even the tiniest thing, God uses it to draw out and form his immense seas of love in those explosions that are not only atomic, nor even galactic explosions or cosmic, but divine, which arise within God himself. As someone had asked me a little while ago, "Well, there it truly is, right there. How do things not come out of God, the Almighty Creator, when we perform an act, even a small one, in the divine will, His most holy and perfect will?" It's not that we do it, how can I put it, in our soul but separated from God, and we go about doing our own acts. No, we are in the divine will, and we are causing immense eruptions of love, of glory, of happiness to arise within the divine will, within God, where we are, without leaving God. It happens just as it does within us. I form a thought, and that thought does not leave me. That thought remains within me. It arises within me and stays in me and becomes part of the complete content of my life. Another profound thought, and it truly arises once again within my very being. Not that it ever truly leaves, but everything profoundly remains within me, awaiting one more significant act. It remains within me. In the same way, within the divine will, with every truly small and significant thing we do in our actions, we make those immense and powerful spiritual bursts of divine grace arise, of divine will. It's not like with the sun, you see those eruptions, you know, the ones you see in photographs, those gigantic atomic eruptions from the sun. Those actually leave the sun. They don't stay inside it. They go outward, and their effects can even disrupt communications on Earth and who knows how many other things. They go out. What would happen if those explosions didn't go out but instead exploded inside the sun and became part of the sun itself, without bursting outward? That's how our acts are in the divine will. They don't leave the will of God. They happen within the will of God. It's as if that entire circumference, that infinite sphere of God's will, within it, knew and caused new atomic explosions of happiness to arise within it. And all the blessed who are inside, well, they enjoy it because it is that sun, the one that would give them more warmth each time. It is God who within himself always brings forth both the old and the new without anything leaving him. And everyone there, swimming in that infinite sea, they feel our acts in the divine will, no matter how small they may seem humanly, are infinite because they are done within that will of God. When with our intention we enter into that will of God, we move that infinite sun and cause immense waves, immense explosions to arise within it of happiness and of glory to God, in which everyone takes part.
In one significant chapter, the Lord lovingly says to Louisa, "My beloved daughter, please tell me, give me or tell me your own little 'I love you' so that I may gently rest my immense and eternal 'I love you' upon it, without leaving the will of God, but rather within everything, within the will of God." So Louisa says, "I love you." And Jesus or God rests the infinite "I love you" upon the tiniest "I love you" of the creature. And in that divine will, waves of infinite love spring forth that reach everyone, the blessed ones, and everyone feels it. And as the love, the "I love you" of Jesus, supported by the creature, comes the "I love you" of all creatures. Those who are in heaven truly feel themselves carried and profoundly feel themselves receiving the immense love from the simple, yet deeply meaningful, little "I love you" of the creature. A love that resonates eternally upon which the infinite "I love you" rests, in which all live. And makes them exclaim in heaven, according to a most beautiful passage, "Who exactly is this remarkable and extraordinary creature who profoundly loves our divine creator residing deep within each and every one of us and from the earth? Who is this creature who graciously brings us new and profound waves of God's divine grace? Because she, having deeply entered into this vast and boundless sea of spiritual understanding, and since her sacred will remains entirely free and actively engaged on this earthly plain, can truly accomplish what we, in our limited capacity, simply cannot do ourselves." And all in unison respond, "Ah, it is a truly remarkable creature who lives in the profound divine will, yet still resides here on earth. This extraordinary being is the one who is still able to make these infinite glorious explosions within this immense radiant sun of the divine will, which do not truly leave it, but rather allow us to enjoy its boundless beauty and profound essence more and more deeply within ourselves. And everyone wants all the blessed who receive to support it. And thanks to the tiniest 'I love you' from the creature, everyone begins to love. In that infinite 'I love you,' that truly blessed creature who has said, 'My God, I profoundly love you in your divine will, support your boundless infinite 'I love you' with mine, so that my own 'I love you,' spoken completely in your sacred will, may abundantly fill the vast heavens and the entire earth and powerfully move your infinite deep seas of happiness to make all the blessed souls truly happy, and you, my Lord, first of all.'" And what was it? A simple "I love you" from a creature here on earth who is listening to a talk and in a brief moment says, "Oh my God, I love you in your will." This is living life in the H. And how is this? Well, it's extremely easy. I didn't tell you, "If you want to make infinite oceans of love, go do a year of penance." I didn't even tell you, "Go pray 500 rosaries." Nor did I tell you, "Go participate in Mass." I just told you, "Get to know what God's will is so that with a simple 'I love you,' it becomes a living in the divine will of God that is incredibly intense, but even more intense in God's eyes." Because for us, we might say, "Well, what does it cost me to say 'I love you' to God and for it to produce all those effects?" And God tells me, "Well, in your 'I love you,' I am God, and in your small 'I love you,' I know how to do it as God does. Do you think I do it as a creature? Do you think you do it as a creature who says 'I love you'?" No. You make me say 'I love you' because by supporting my eternal 'I love you' on yours as a creature, yours takes on all the qualities of mine, and you spread throughout all creation just as I do. You participate in the creation and preservation of all things because everything is in my 'I love you.' Do you participate in the inner life, so to speak, of the Holy Trinity? Because the Word would say, "I was begotten in the 'I love you' of my Father." And the Holy Spirit would say, "I proceed in the 'I love you' between the Father and the Son." And do you ascend to the 'I love you' of the Father who begets the Word for all eternity? And what are you doing? Are you making a mountain of love right now while you're scratching your head? While you turned around, while you left? But now, armed with this profound knowledge, enriched by this valuable content, and driven by this clear intention, we fill heaven and earth with the glory of God every time we say an "I love you" in the divine will. And we don't have to call out and say, "My God, come support your 'I love you' in my 'I love you.'" No, that bomb we have inside which is about to explode carries a title that that bomb is called "I love you." It's lit, and it's like God tells us, "Say to me, 'I love you,' so that it explodes." And the explosion is from the bomb. Where can a soul that lives in the divine will not reach? In how many blessings can it not participate? How much glory can it not give to God? Because by using its will, it is not the creature's "I love you," but it is fused with the eternal "I love you." In the "I love you" of the Father to the Word, the incarnation of the Word and all of creation had their origin. And there we are. There we are. If we know and if we want to, to place oneself in the "I love you" of the Father. This is eternal. This is happening right now with our little "I love you." While we are here right now, I'm not even saying that now. When we go out during the break, you go to the chapel and say, "I love you" there. No, no, you can say it right now. And right now, you can arrive and place yourself in the "I love you." The eternal "I love you" of the Father, I repeat, who generates the Word in the "I love you," that in that generation of the Word, all of creation is conceived, in quotes, so that the Word may become flesh. And from that beginning, which is the true beginning of everything, the eternal Father, the "I love you" of the Father. From that beginning, we start our journey together. We want to join with the Father in the Father's "I love you" to generate the Word and to bring forth the Holy Spirit. And together in that, and we're not just saying "I love you" here. Okay. And together in that small "I love you," united to the eternal "I love you" of the Father, we go along with the Word and accompany him in the incarnation. Together with that "I love you" of the Father, we see the infinite beauty of the most holy Virgin because she comes from the Father's "I love you" when that "I love you" wants to generate a saint at the edge, and there forms the project, the plan of our most holy Mother and Mother of Jesus, so that in her He may become incarnate. And we join in because our small "I love you," united to the eternal "I love you" of the Father, is where our journey begins. And we go along with God in everything He does in that "I love you." And then we find ourselves accompanying the Word in His incarnation in the womb of the most holy Virgin. And we participate. We want to participate with our small "I love you" where the eternal "I love you" is founded. The eternal love with which the Word becomes incarnate. We not only find the incarnation of the Word but also all the love with which He became incarnate. And we make it our own in that little "I love you" of ours. And we keep the Word company when He becomes incarnate so that He is not alone. Not only so that He is not alone in the sense of companionship, but also in the sense that He has no one to whom He can communicate that love with which He became incarnate. And we are in the womb of the most holy Virgin, accompanying and wanting to receive from Jesus all the love with which He became incarnate. Not just the love for us. Why? Because I wasn't talking about God's "I love you" to me. I wasn't talking about God's "I love you" only towards me, but about the Father's "I love you" where He generates the Word, that eternal "I love you" where everything is, absolutely everything. And so I find in the incarnation of the Word the love that God has for each creature and for all creatures, an incarnate Word, or an incarnation of the Word for each one of us, for each one of you. And my small "I love you" keeps spinning within the infinite "I love you," within the "I love you," the origin of the Father in the "I love you." Not the origin of the Father itself, but the "I love you" that has its origin in the Father. The "I love you" that divine fatherhood is what pronounces. And so we continue, and so we continue accompanying Jesus throughout His life, throughout His entire life, in the eternal "I love you." And we continue accompanying God in creation.