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 The plans of men, beginning with mine, tend to be exclusive
and close-minded: to reach a peace that sometimes is the
peace of a cemetery. The plans of God, instead, ask us to risk and try an adventure. All of us, when we start on a new path, have human plans, natural ones and even beautiful ones. But we are witnesses that, in carrying out our own plans, we fail. God is enlarging our horizons. However, what we are experiencing now is not a human plan, but rather, we are abandoning ourselves to the plans of God, we are entrusted to Him Who wants to save His children at any price. There are people who drink at a fountain of immense richness, that is true life, real and true peace and have security for the future, but they are content to take the water using a tiny glass with which they can never quench their thirst. The Community wants to show you that whoever trusts in God, gains quality in his life, in his potential, in security and in his way of life. Surely all of us have plans in mind. This is good, but let us not
make the mistake of remaining alone, convinced only of our own plans, of only what we want, because God tells us, “with me you can work miracles.” Whenever I go to the houses of our Community, I contemplate the wonder of the gift of life. For sure, if you want to love, you have to renounce your immediate plans and your modern conveniences because without the cross, it is true that you cannot love. You cannot love the woman who gives her life for you, who renounces everything to stay with you. You cannot even love your children who expect a smile or a word from you. You do not have time because you are focused on fulfilling your own little plans. True love always comes with an ability to renounce, with a sacrifice; and then that sacrifice becomes concrete love. If you are able to be an instrument in the hands of God, if you have trust, love and the patience to accept His plans for you, He restores to you what you have given, one hundred times over. The reign of Heaven is already among us, because it is joined with the reign on earth. The good
that we do is a goodness that remains forever. This is what I have experienced. A path has opened in front of me, that has become a reality, that cannot yet be grasped. It has begun to take on the dimensions of the love of God. Who would have thought that this path could have opened like this in front of me, a woman who is weak, not very intelligent and incapable like me? Those who trust in Him
will not remain imprisoned in their little plans. I have seen young people who built a cage with their own hands and then fell into desperation because of it. God gave me the strength and patience to follow what He indicated to me day by day and this path has slowly opened wide and has welcomed with open arms many young people in need of love. These arms now embrace the whole world. By now these arms are not only mine, they are the arms of many young people who, after having received the love of God, have decided, like I did, to trust in Him and to give to those in need with that love which they have freely received.
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