Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 216

Mary and Martha

15th April 1842

[1] Now then, I give you this little word! What are you asking here then: what for? Surely you still have not yet forgotten for what you asked in your heart? So, this one give it! But all are to pay attention to it, well understood!

[2] So listen then, My dear little daughter, and pay attention to what I tell you here! Gather all your love into a love for Me, your good, holy, most loving Father, then you will access a great power; and first in this power, believe Me, will every good wish of your heart go to the very highest fulfillment for you.

[3] But if you want to actively follow this advice, then imagine Martha and her sister Mary very often, and think about it within yourself very firmly and deeply in your heart, why to Me then the so to speak idle Maria was by far dearer than the so very busy Martha – and what I said to Martha when she asked Me to instruct Mary to help her.

[4] If you will deeply consider such things, then it will already become clear to you why I have made you, My dear little daughter, aware of it! Believe Me, your dear, holy Father: “Only one thing is necessary, and this one thing is true love for Me! Everything else belongs to the world and is vainly useless stuff!"

[5] So, My dear little daughter, you also stick to this one, then you too, like Mary, will live with Me, your most loving, holy Father – here already, as yet much more beyond, eternally, eternally, eternally. Amen.