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A disputed husband
30th November 1842, morning
[1] Give this little word to My dear friend A.H. Willing!
[2] On the day when you celebrate the name of your body and soul, I also want to remember you and offer you a secondary gift. Accept it, that you may recover in body and soul! Because these two parts of you are a little sick. In the body there is a little too much bile, and your soul is too depressed, first by the somewhat sickly body, and second by all sorts of insignificant worldly worries.
[3] You will not notice the latter very much, because you have become accustomed to them. But they do not cease to be what they are. They are a burden to the soul and behave to it just like a heavy truck to a horse that has been pulling such a cart for years. Of course, it no longer feels the load, since it pulls it as a numb machine. But can you therefore claim and say: The carriage is no longer a burden to the animal, because it is no longer able to feel it?
[4] But let's say that such a horse wants to get sickly on some part of it's body in the team in front of the carriage. Do you think that in the course of this it will be able to be healed because it does not feel the weight of the carriage? Behold, such the coachmen know quite well. Therefore, they unhitch it and grant it rest and good care for a time. The animal then becomes again healthy, fresh and cheerful. And when it is then again harnessed to it's long familiar carriage, it pulls it away again easily, as if it had only featherdown to pull!
[5] You will not fully grasp this picture; but if I will illuminate it to you only a little, then it will be clear to you what I want to say with it.
[6] Do you think then that I want to say that you should, for instance, put your state office out of your hands for a time? Oh no, I do not mean that! For this is not what the sorrows of your soul are buried in. But they lie in your worldly domesticity!
[7] You have trouble with My cause with the exceedingly worldly relatives of the world, since the world is everything to them, but I, a complete nobody!
[8] But don't make anything of it yourself! For – for the time being – they cannot harm a hair on your head. And secondly, I have long since took notice of them and know what I want to do with them. For indeed, they will not escape my trap that strongly tries them! But there is already an old saying among you: "He who laughs last laughs best." Behold, therefore this is how it will be there, too.
[9] But I say to you: Free your mind! Let the donkeys whine! Turn away your ears from them, and cheer up only in Me! Where possible, do good to those who despise you, and bless those who secretly, as if cursing, despise you!
[10] There the burning coals will not be kept from their heads, and great relief will be upon your heart! Hand over your daughters to this very foolish woman after sacrificing them to Me, then I will turn the tide in a very secret way. And if it then goes as it goes, then think that I am still able to turn a whore to Me with one glance, so I will not miss the way there either.
[11] By the way, be a lord to your wife! Leave her worldly activities and doings to her; but regarding My cause, turn her tongue away from yourself, always commanding and with manly strength! If she does not keep silent, get away from her tongue and show her that you do not depend on her money in the least, but that she does depend on your faithful administration of it.
[12] If she is not satisfied with that, then put all her stuff completely into her hands and keep yourself from it, so that she may do what she wants with it! But you can regard that as an extreme means!
[13] If she accuses you of contempt for her, then ask her – most seriously, however! – what respectable weight she has to show from her side in all the insults inflicted upon you? But then listen to her no further, but get out from under her tongue quickly!
[14] When a storm rises at sea and a passing counter-storm comes, there will be peace on the sea. Behold, so it is also with the "domestic windbirds". Of course, such a counter-storm must come from a anger-free heart, otherwise it can do more harm than the first storm!
[15] My servant, however, must as soon as possible leave the worldly house of your wife with sack and pack, so that your wife's mouth will be plugged more than halfway! But "with sack and pack" is meant that he is not to go out and in of your wife's house at all. Support him according to his meager needs with about twenty and five guilders – but keep it secret that no-one but you, your brother, and the servant will know about it, and you will soon have peace.
[16] But do not make anything of everything and be completely cheerful, eat and drink according to your desire and needs, make weekly excursions in the company of your brother and, for example, the servant, according to your time, across the more innocent country; talk about Me, and I will be with you and will bless your every breath for your threefold health!
[17] And so will you, too, my dear A.H.- Willig, with a calm soul, cheerful spirit and free heart, have to enjoy the best bodily health very soon! Behold, I tell you, the whole thing is nothing but an empty mirror-fencing of My enemy. But the loose mirror will soon be pierced, and then it will certainly also be the end of such "fencing"!
[18] But where on earth does a person or a people live, who are not or have not been stirred up a little because of Me? But bless him who out of love for Me is a faithful fighter for My kingdom – indeed, his reward will also be immeasurably great! For he will firstly never taste death on earth in his spirit. But what awaits him only then in My Father's home, for that the whole of infinity has too little ear to be able to hear it properly!
[19] So be cheerful and joyful, for your cross, too, is a gift from Me, your eternally good and holy Father!
[20] Trust Me in everything! And if it goes as it goes in your family, think that the great helmsman is not far from the rudder!
[21] Thus accept My blessing for always and ever! Amen.