Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 175

About the death of a child

23rd October 1841, morning

[1] Say this in My name to him whom I found worthy that I visited him and took his youngest earthly child to Me, for which reason he mourns and weeps much and does not well consider that it is I who showed him such grace, Whose greatness he will probably not be able to grasp in eternity.

[2] But if a prince of the world had said to A. H. -Willig: Wouldn't you like to leave your little child to me, so that I may raise her to be a great princess and, when she will come of age and have had sufficient education, then also immediately enfeoff her with crowns from many countries and then make her into a great, reigning princess, queen and empress – would A. H.-Willig then be able to make her a princess himself? Would he not willingly be beside himself with joy, even just for the sake of the sole seriously great proposal, and would also seek to show his gratitude to the emperor in every conceivable way?

[3] Or some good prince would come to him and set his little child as sole heir for a great part of his goods – what would A.H.-Willig want to do with the prince in that case? Or a reigning prince would come and desire the hand of one of his daughters to be the future empress – would A. H.-Willig reject such a bridal suitor from the house?

[4] But what is all this in comparison with Me coming and do all this in the living, eternal, infinite sense! And there can and may A.H.-Willing lament, weep and mourn?!

[5] Oh how weak he still is! Doesn't extraordinary help also need extraordinary means? Or must not the remedy be like the disease, so that the evil may come to an end? But who goes to the physician and shows him the wound; and when the physician puts a healing oil into the wound, he weeps and mourns, and the oil begins to heal the wound. Oh see how blind you still are!

[6] When your shoes pinch you, you persistently call for help; and finally I come to help you and to make your faltering feet free and firm, there you become full of sadness! Why this? Because your heart is still blind, that is why you seek help, but fear the sure-helping means and flee!

[7] See, I have now shown you a level path, and have broken down a brazen gate, and broken down a great partition! Through a great desert I have laid wells for the vitalizing conduit of the living water! Behold, the desert will blossom – and should you mourn over it!?

[8] Oh get to know Me better in the future! For I am your Father! How may you mourn when your holy Father visits you in the highest love and orders your house for you?

[9] Therefore do not mourn any more! For I, your most holy, most loving Father, have willed it! Consider that and you will live forever! Amen.