With each day that passes, I will liberate you from your attachments, and I will make you more and more free, little, trusting and surrendered, until you are totally mine and my Immaculate Heart is in fact your only good. Then I will be able to act in you and carry out my work as Mother, which is that of making each one of you into a living copy of my Son Jesus. Entrust yourselves to me without fear. Every pain that you feel because of a new detachment will be soothed by me with a new gift of love. Each time that you detach yourself from a creature, you will feel your Mother closer to you.
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Loneliness can be prayer, for every man and woman, married or single, in every vocation, at some time, is lonely. When that terrible loneliness comes upon you, a cry wells up deep in your heart like the cry of a mute person, and rises to God. That cry is prayer.
Grace in Every Season (April 4)
The pain of the detachment process and the resulting feeling of loneliness can be excruciating. But we can give it back to God in prayer. I believe that this is a part of the pain that Jesus had to undergo at the Garden of Gethsemene.
When we feel deep loss of someone, when betrayal and rejection bites us hard… it’s because we were attached too deeply.
I think ‘attachment’ carries with it expectation and expectation, disappointment. So it’s easier to forgive, love and serve others as God is dictating when our only attachment is to God Himself.
Even though we are required to love greatly, we are asked to not be too attached to anything or anyone on this earth and that includes mother, father, spouse, children.
I remember when my mom passed away the pain was so excruciating and it came like ocean waves that just tore at me. One time I prayed about it, and the answer I received was that I was holding on to the pain because I felt it was a way to hold on to her. I had to be willing to let her go. Of course it still comes unexpectedly once in a while, but I no longer wallow in it and can go on with life. And it turns out that I didn’t lose her at all…I have plenty of joyful memories, and life lessons that she taught me to see me through.
“Every pain that you feel because of a new detachment will be soothed by me with a new gift of love.” This is what we need to trust.