“Take time and love the small works you do. You will find much joy and peace when you devote extraordinary love in the ordinary tasks, the small jobs done on a daily basis.”(From Gianna below)
Service is an all encompassing thing. Sometimes we get to stand up in fancy clothes and make a toast at a snazzy banquet, other times we get to take out the trash after the banquet. The older I get, the more I’m inclined to appreciate the latter over the former, but in God’s eyes, every action carries equal merit. The difference is what lies in our heart as we perform either act. Are we displaying love? Or are we complaining because we think we’re above doing certain things? I think that if we stay focused on Jesus as we work, and His acts of love including His passion, any task becomes more rewarding internally. The littlest and simplest of acts can carry great weight in our hearts and souls if performed with love, and especially if we’re walking in His light and embracing His infinite mercy. Following Jesus is never about status, in fact it’s the exact opposite. “The last shall be first, and the first last, for many be called, but few chosen.”(Matt 20:16) Once we divorce ourselves from vanity and desire for status, love becomes a much more natural act. An immersion in the Way, the Truth, and the Life. For every single soul. In perfect love. Totus Tuus.❤️🙏
As told to Gianna Talone Sullivan, July 21, 1992, I am your Jesus of Mercy Vol IV
Extraordinary Love
“My dear little one, do ordinary things with extraordinay
love! Have fidelity to the little things you do. Be at
peace and believe with all of your heart My love for you, and
that I am by your side. Everything you do, do as if it were for
Me. Be proficient, yet gentle. Touch everything with an EX-
TRAORDINARY LOVE. This is how, in your ordinariness,
you become extraordinary!!
You must believe in Me and trust so fervently in Me as
to be able to see Me in everything and everyone. If you see
Me in everything and everyone, you will be loving, gentle
and kind, if you love Me! For whatever you do to the least
of your brothers, you do to Me.
See yourself as doing good. The image of the world has
surrounded you through advertisements, and has set the tone
of “good life. The only life that is good is the only life that
lives, and this life is in Me.
See Me as your resource of happiness, for I desire you to
be happy. Put aside your anxieties and absorb your energy in
Me, which will influence a concrete response. Don’t Wrestle
with your inadequacies, but embrace Me and allow Me to be
the inspirational challenge to your successful walk!
Take the time to do all your chores and recreation with
extraordinary love. You will never be left alone in this abandoned world of humanity. Come and see the creation of God
through the eyes of God! Take time to contemplate. Take the
loving “touch of love” to all your works and be a follower of
EXTRAORDINARY LOVE. The people of your world are
hastily working, and take care only of the things of meaning
as they perceive; but all is meaningful, if I have created all!
Do not select only that which you desire to love. Take
time and love the small works you do. You will find much joy
and peace when you devote extraordinary love in the ordinary
tasks, the small jobs done on a daily basis. If you can take care
of the small items, then you will be able to love and tend to
bigger projects WITH THE SAME LOVE. This extraordinary
love will become your way, and you will live in union with
Me.
The way you treat one another, no matter what position
or title in life you hold, will be of the same love if you start
to love all the weak and strong with a gentle, extraordinary
care.
I love you all and only desire your love to live in the
union of the Holy Trinity. My words are for you because My
love is for you Because of you, My Father sent Me. He loves
you. I AM FOR YOU. AD DEUM.”