Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 445

Chest catarrh [inflammation] – a reminder to be patient

7th May 1848

[1] You would like to be healthy, My daughter? But behold, not everything can go so quickly as many a heart desires! For behold, I, too, have so many wishes for free people on earth; but people do not want to comply with such My best wishes either.

[2] I Myself have been suffering in My chest for many years, which is overflowing with love for you people. But the called babies do not want to come and relieve My Father-breast from the burden of My love for you, My babies! There is nothing left for Me but patience! So also become My successor if you want to be My true daughter!

[3] Look at a fruit tree! See, the children are looking at it to see if it would bear ripe fruit soon. And when some cherry berries on a cherry tree start to redden just a little, the children think that they are already ripe and perfectly good to eat. But then the gardener says to the children: “Just be patient, my little friends! Three more weeks and the cherries will be fully ripe!"

[4] A mother tries hard with her baby. She teaches him to walk; she puts easily pronounceable words in his mouth; she measures it and is happy when her darling has only grown by a few lines. And she waits longingly for that time when she will see him as a fully ripe youth. But despite all the longing, time can never be broken over the knee. And again it all depends on patience.

[5] In this stormy time, in which all mankind is fermenting like hell, many a peaceful heart received a mighty wound quite innocently and longingly wishes nothing so much as the quickest and most perfect restoration of a good order. But no building can be rebuilt before an earlier one can be torn down. So it is important to be patient again!

[6] And so, My dear daughter, you must also have much patience, waiting for better days of summer, full of warmth. These will already heal your inflammation completely.

[7] But in the meantime, use only your plaster and your tea. This will either gradually cause your tumor to burst open or, if you are on a diet, it will evaporate and spread – which will be even more beneficial to you, although it will take a little longer.

[8] But the diet consists in not eating anything sour or too fat, and in drinking coffee with fresh milk rather than with fat cream, and not strong, no pork or beef that is too tough and too salty, nor sour cabbage or cabbage, nor fatty and bitter broths, but spinach, horseradish milk, almond horseradish, and the like.

[9] You just put warm towels over the pavement, previously smoked a little with incense and juniper berries. But you should not put damp things over the pavement, they weaken the effect. They don't actually do any harm, but they do delay the effect of the patch. You only have to watch out for warmth! Because such a catarrhal ulcer does not develop for a long time in the cool, but rather hardens within the mucous membranes.

[10] If there are more cold days, you better stay in bed. But on warm days, go for a walk and get into a good sweat! That will bring you good fruit.

[11] But it would be much better for you if you hadn't chilled a few times in the previous month because of your illness! Therefore you have to have a little more patience for this, then your mucous inflammation will be fine again.

[12] You must also have no fear of the events of this time! For from now on they will(*1) trouble the cities less than the country, where the country people are subjected to a strong sifting. But you shall learn more about it soon. Therefore now be without fear! Everything will go better than you now expect. – Don't be afraid, daughter! Where I am, nothing bad happens! Amen.

Footnote (*1) the insurgents of the year 1848 (i.e. the Hsg.)