The essential thing is to really begin; the rest will come by itself.

Dearest one in the Divine Volition, to live in It is not about changing actions, but only the will:  instead of making our will flow in all that we do, we let flow That of God.  And do you want to know what happens in our act?  His Love, His Goodness, is so great that as we form our act and let His Will flow in it, the Divine Life forms in our act; and this Life of God is repeated in our acts as many times for as many acts as we do.  Do you think it’s trivial that, as long as I let His Will flow, He gives me the power to form as many Divine Lives for as many acts as I do?  They might be even natural or tiny acts; as long as His Will is there, the great prodigy is performed.

As far as weaknesses, miseries and the like, don’t worry, as long as our will is not there, since that is our ruin.  They can serve as footstool on which the Divine Volition forms Its throne in order to dominate us and reign; or serve as the crushed stone and rubble serve one who wants to build himself a house, or as ground in the hands of our Celestial Farmer, who makes of our miseries without our will the most beautiful bloomings in order to extend His Kingdom.  Everything serves His glory and our good, in the divine hands of the Fiat.  However, I recommend that you do not think of miseries and weaknesses.  The more one thinks about them, the more he feels them.  On the other hand, if one does not think about them, they disappear, and he feels them less; more so, since sweet Jesus does not look at what we feel, but at what we want.  Even more, many times He feels compassion for us and increases His grace and His strength in order to make miseries stay at their place.  Besides, in wanting that we live in His Will, dear Jesus does not want to deal with the dead, but with the living.  Our miseries say that we are alive, not dead, and wanting to be the winner, He conquers them and makes of them the most beautiful ornament for His Kingdom.

Therefore, courage and trust; these are the weapons which conquer God.  If we don’t take the first steps, we cannot that second, the third ones, and so forth… If we do not enter the sea, we cannot get wet, nor swim in it.  Therefore, the essential thing is to really begin; the rest will come by itself.