Fragments of an awakened soul

Open my eyes to Your light, open my heart to Your love, open my spirit to Your purpose.

Fill me with life, Lord. Fill me with love, Lord. Fill me with purpose. Make of me whatever You wish, Jesus. I want to be only what You want me to be.

Transform me, Jesus. Elevate me. Allow me to see more, allow me to feel more. Do not allow me to stray from the path, do not allow me to forget You, do not allow me to fail in Your mission, Lord.

It is no longer I alone, but Christ who lives in me. Christ is my strength, Christ is my life, Christ is the light in my heart.

I want to feed this fire so that I never allow it to weaken again. I want this fire to burn like a blazing flame of love. You are the tree of life, the precious flame of love, the fire that gives life, the light of our souls.

Make my prayers not merely words, but the expression of what is felt in the heart.

Jesus, I surrender my whole life to You. Make of me whatever You wish. I am Yours, Jesus. You are my Lord; I consecrate my entire life to You.

I surrender everything: everything I have, everything I am, everything I do, into Your hands. I place my heart, my whole soul, my entire being, in You alone.

I trust in You, I trust in Your word, I trust in Your promise.

The return of Christ will take place in each one of us, in our hearts. We do not need Jesus to come in the clouds and make His presence known in the world, because, in truth, He is already here and never left.

Jesus will return when, in our hearts, we allow Jesus to dwell. And everything will be made new: in your life and throughout the whole world.

We do not need to wait for Jesus to return; we need to place Jesus in our hearts right now, and He will be back in our lives.

I want to feel only love. I want to rest in love, I want to rest upon You, Jesus.

At this moment, I feel completely whole, because what was missing within me, in truth, always been with me at every moment; I only needed to recognize it and rest in Your love.

As I feel this love for Christ, I feel love for life, I feel love for the beauty that exists in the expression of life, for how deeply art touches us when we are in contemplation and filled with the love of God. Life is wonderful, life is beautiful, life is grace.

All of this is because of the presence of Jesus in my heart, because this is how He sees us. That is why I need Him, so that He may fill my heart with the same kind of love.

Your grace is glory forever. Your mercy is grace now and forever. Your light illuminates our hearts now and forever.

All light comes from You. All love comes from You. All life comes from You.

Thank You, Jesus.

Thank You for finally making me understand, for finally making me comprehend that all I need is love: my love for You and Your love for me.

Love is everything. Love is what makes everything possible, love is what gives us life, willingness, and joy in being alive. Love is what creates movement, love is what makes our eyes and our souls shine.

Without love, we live withdrawn, still, sad, without strength, apathetic; with love, we live radiant, open, full of life, strength, and energy. Love makes us live full of purpose, desire, and willingness. It is love that nourishes our soul with meaning, purpose, and self-realization; without love, nothing has value, nothing has meaning, nothing has purpose.

Today I understand that the bread I need each day is not the nourishment of the body, but the nourishment of the soul. I need to nourish myself every day with Your love, Jesus. Every day I spend with You makes me happier, more alive, more excited about life.

Your love is everything, because without Your love, I feel empty, I feel insignificant, I feel impoverished in life. My soul longs for Your love, my soul hungers and thirsts for You, and only today do I understand that sadness is the soul’s hunger for Your love.

Only today do I understand that the emptiness of purpose I felt within me throughout my entire life was, in truth, hunger for Your love.

Never again, Lord, will I leave You behind. Never again will I forget You. Never again will I give anything greater priority than You. Because today I understand: I only have life in You.

You are the source of life. Your love conquers death, Your love overflows upon all things and allows everything to exist. Your love, Jesus, is what allows us to have life.

I am grateful to You, Jesus, for finally making me understand what I had been searching for so deeply within myself.

Thank You, Jesus. I will follow You today and eternally. My soul longs only for You.

Today I know that, if I had not truly been alone, I would never have put Jesus first. The feeling I am capable of experiencing when I am close to someone is so overwhelming that I have no other option but to surrender myself completely.

That is how I am. For me, it has always been this way. Nothing had ever made more sense than this, until now. If we are here and nothing matters, the only truth is love, and the greatest love will always be the love that is by our side; and if it is not, it is because you are not with the right person.

But it was only by withdrawing into myself that I realized that the greatest love is, in truth, and always has been, Christ.

Forgive me, Master, for my anger, for my bad thoughts, for my rebelliousness, for all my impurity. Allow me to forgive, help me to forgive, Lord. Help me not to become angry anymore. Forgive me, Lord, for being unable to forgive, for still feeling anger toward what I cannot understand in the behavior of others.

I cannot even explain my own behavior, nor can I explain my own will, nor can I explain the ups and downs of my life. Why demand to understand that for which there is no explanation?

I truly need You. When I do not think of You, I think of things that do not serve me.

I need You, Lord, at all times, because only in the reflection of Your love can I remember what is truly important, eternal, and true.

Lord, keep us steadfast on the path of good. Keep us aligned with Your will. Even when we remain stubborn, do not allow our stubborn actions to bear fruit, but correct us before the great harvest, so that we may amend our choices in time.

Always be with us.

Sanctify us. Remove from us all evil, all inconsistency, all the thoughts we nurture that cause us harm, all the behaviors we nurture that cause us harm, all the pain we insist on feeling again and again.

Set us free, through the truth, from every attachment to suffering.

Transform our thoughts into good thoughts, Jesus! Transform our behaviors into good behaviors, Jesus! Transform us from the inside out, so that all impurity may be washed away by the pure flame of the fire of the Holy Spirit and never return.