He really does Love you. You. Right there. yep. you.
God loves you. He loves you with a love that is inexhaustible and unfathomable. You can't imagine how great His love is for you, because our minds do not have the capacity to imagine anything so great. He is love and mercy. All of our human love has conditions, even if we do not think it has. Our purest and most powerful love is but a faint breeze compared to His level 7 time 70 gazillion million bajillion hurricane, a drop compared to His ocean, you get the point. You can't imagine it.
His mercy is so great. I've shared this quote from St. Faustina's diary before, and I'm going to share it again. And probably a whole bunch of times after that because I love it.
"My Daughter, do you think you have written enough about My mercy? What you have Written is but a drop compared to the ocean. I am Love and Mercy itself. There is no misery that could be a match for My mercy, neither will misery exhaust it, because as it is being granted - it increases. The soul that trusts in My mercy is most fortunate, because I myself take care of it."
1273 St. Faustina's diary
Rest there for a moment. Breath it in. Ah. . . . . . . .
Can you imagine that? No. I can't. I can try, and try and try to imagine His unimaginable mercy, but every time I imagine something bigger than I imagined the first time, I realize that His mercy is even bigger than that, and I am left with a great sense of amazement and peace, and am lost in awe.
It's hard for us to understand something that we cannot imagine, see or picture in our minds, because everything we have ever seen, imagined or pictured is just that. It can be seen, imagined or pictured. So when we try to fathom something that is not seen, cannot be pictured in our minds or imagined, we are left in a sense of amazement, that hopefully brings us to praise God, as it should. God is the only one who can create such marvelous things that leave us standing in this kind of awe and amazement.
" On one occasion, I heard these words:My daughter, tell the whole world about My Inconceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day all the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternity. Everything that exists has come forth from the very depths of My most tender mercy. Every soul in its relation to Me will I contemplate My love and mercy throughout eternity. The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy. (St. Faustina's Diary 699)
Just so you know, those depths of mercy that are unfathomable are going to be opened this Sunday, along with the Divine Floodgates through which grace flows. Jesus loves us so much. So, very very much. Will you go to Confession and communion this Sunday? Jesus isn't just offering this Mercy to us, He is inviting us to it. He wants us to come to it! He loves us, and that is the truth.
https://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/decree.htm
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