Fragment of the Diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska,
"Divine Mercy in my soul", with comment
From the ruins.
559 Once, upon entering the chapel, I saw the walls of an abandoned house as [200], the windows were without glass, doors unfinished leafless, only had the frames. Suddenly I heard these words in my soul: This must be the convent. Truthfully, I did not like much I had to be in those ruins.
comment:
This ruined building is like our soul, that after the inheritance of original sin, and our own sins, is as in ruins, and only God can, in view of such a distressing spectacle, hope to build something good.
Indeed sin leaves us very battered, and only because God is omnipotent, we can expect that he will know reconstruct the building of our soul and make it a masterpiece of grace and holiness.
God knows out of evil, the good, and a lot of debris, make a palace. Therefore we must not fear the architect and builder is God, since He is very experienced and through the ruins that befall us in life for failures, setbacks and misfortunes of all types will expose a work construction teacher.
Did the Apostle did not say that we are living stones of the church building? So we should not worry if we see ruins in and around us, because God sees the future and promises us that if we have good will and we are guided by Him, then build great works. The important thing is that we introduce in ruins at the end of our days, when death comes to us, because that really would be irremediable.
Jesus, I trust in You.
