no limit

Now, My daughter, it was not so in creating man. 

In him was placed, not a determined act, but an Act ever growing. 

Our Love did not want to say an ‘enough’ to man. 

It would have been like hampering Our Love, arresting Our ardor. No, no—Our ‘enough’ did not pronounce itself in the creation of man. It did not put a limit, but an Act ever growing, leaving it almost to his liking where he wanted to reach, and Our growing Act at his disposal, so that Our display of Love would not have a limit, but could make pomp of luxury, of grace, of sanctity, of beauty, of goodness, and more—as much as he pleased. 

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We bound Our growing Act to his free will... 

so that it might have no hindrance to displaying as much luxury as it could. And so that this growing Act of Ours might have in man all possible and imaginable helps, We gave him also Our Divine Will at his disposal, so that It could maintain for him, at Its own expense, all the luxury he wanted, and the superabundance of the goods of his Creator. 

Our Love did not have the heart to say ‘enough’ to man: ‘Our son, up to here you can reach.’ No, no—it would have been as if a father wanted to say to his son: ‘Up to such and such day you will sit at my table, and then—enough.’ This would not be love of paternity, but of mastership. That a son may put a limit in receiving the alimony of his father—this could be. But that a father would say to him: ‘You will remain on an empty stomach’—this he will never do.

Such is Our Goodness. 

We will never say ‘enough’ to the creature. 

Our growing Act will serve her as continuous nourishments to always grow and preserve herself. 

And if, ungrateful, she does not make use of Our growing Act, great gift given by her Creator, We will have the sorrow of seeing Our dear child on an empty stomach, poor, and Our Act hampered and without life. And Our ardor of love will change...

into ardor of sorrow.

So, if you want Our growing Act to have life in you, never go out of Our Divine Will, which will be jealous of making you always, always grow.

[2.7.1931]