Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 154

Love of God and love of people. – To a young soul on his name’s

day 28th May 1841, in the morning

[1] To the one who has a male name and is a daughter of Ans.-Talker and E. H. P. W. and who today celebrates the not very meaningful day of her earthly name – write the following little word from Me, so that she may recognize from it the Father's voice which was often heard already in the cradle, that is why she was so tearful as a small child when the sweet Father's voice did not speak up immediately.

[2] Gabiela! Has My Father's voice become strange to you? Do you no longer love Me as you loved Me in the cradle?

[3] My Gabiela! Do not forget Me! And do not secretly turn your eye and your heart to developed young men through the window in a spirit of marriage, and that today to this one, tomorrow to that one, and the day after tomorrow to a third, etc., but always think about Me, and turn your eye and your heart and love only to One! And this One am I, your holy, most loving Father.

[4] In this only love you will live happily ever after and then forever in the bosom of your Father!

[5] Human love, see, dear Gabiela, is of no use if it does not come from My love.

[6] But if you, out of Me, will incline yourself to someone, see if he is in possession of My love. If he is, he is like you, and your neighbour in heart. But if he is not, consider him an erring brother who still walks between heaven and hell and directs his eyes more to the abysses of eternal night than to Me, the "Father" who is still completely unknown to him.

[7] The righteous Love-light will turn you to the light, from where you and the Love-light in the spirit come. But the one who searches the abyss will turn your eye to where he has turned his own. If the dark abyss consumes his eyesight and he will fall into the abyss with the next step, his fall will force you to fall with him. And it would then be difficult to find you in the abyss of all night and to detach yourself from the chains that a bad worldly love would have forged around your tender heart a thousandfold.

[8] Therefore, My dear Gabiela, love only Me! Yes, be or become completely in love with Me, like a Magdalena! And with your heart, only look for him whom I will introduce to you, filled with My love! But respect and love everyone else, insofar as they too are human!

[9] But be compassionate towards the poor and pray to Me, your God and Father, for those who are seriously astray and fall, and you will be completely My dear, happy Gabiela – here and there in My lap forever!

[10] Let this little word be a dearest bond on your earthly name’s day! And in the reassessment of your inner, own name, however, remember that I, your eternal, holy, most loving Father, am not far from you, now as forever! Amen.

[11] Remember My dear Gabiela! I, your Father, tell you that you are My dear Gabiela and shall remain so for ever! Amen, Amen, Amen.