Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 5

Tips for correct parental love in education

23rd April 1840

[1] Give the woman of Ans. H. the following words! For I have recognized her longing and will therefore give her a little consolation, which she is to observe for herself and for her little children, maidens and boys.

[2] I have joy in everyone who has joy in Me. And I have the water in great quantity to give to those who thirst for it. And My grace is as broad as it is long, and nowhere is there a narrower part.

[3] Therefore, Mother of the flesh, distribute your love among your own as I distribute grace – so that none of your children may get a black eye out of secret envy and will look begrudgingly one day at their brother or sister! Have a full and equal measure of love towards each of your children – so that I can then also give them a full and equal measure of grace! But otherwise the more beloved ones are to receive less grace and the less beloved ones more grace from Me.

[4] For behold, I am a father of the persecuted, a comforter of the afflicted – but also a very strict judge of the children you love too much. For the excess of your love corrupts your children and makes them unable to receive My favor. Therefore, in the future you let all be granted equally what is useful to them, what is necessary and beneficial, and conquer your heart – and My grace will take you into it’s midst!

[5] And believe that it is I who am telling you this, as your good Father. What you see faintly, I see sharply. But where you look with all sharpness, I look through your fingers. What the world judges, that I record; but what the world exalts, that will come to a halt before Me. – Behold the adulteress, judged by the world! Her iniquity I have written in the sand that the wind may blow it away. So shall you all do the same if you want to be My true children whom I love more than you will ever be able to grasp.

[6] As the sun shines and as the rain falls on all grass, so should be your love towards your children! Against the strangers however be like a firebrand and like a cloudburst, so that no self-love prevails in you and in your children – which will then strengthen your trust and I can and will always help you where you are weakest.

[7] Let that be a small comfort to you! Where I want to go in, there I first sweep! So says your good, holy Father. Amen.