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Deacon Mike McKeown:
Have you ever looked at your ordinary day, making the bed, washing the dishes, driving to work, answering a text, and thought, this can’t possibly matter much to God? Well, what if Jesus actually wants to do every one of those small acts in you? And when He does, they become divine acts. Welcome to Divine Will Reflections. I’m Deacon Mike McEwen. If you’re just beginning to learn how to live and pray in the Divine Will, today’s reflection is especially for you.
Jesus spoke these words to Servant of God Luisa Picaretta in the Book of Heaven:
My daughter, in order to forget herself, the soul should make it in such a way that everything she does, and which is necessary to her, she does as if I myself wanted to do it in her. If she prays, she should say, it is Jesus who wants to pray, and I pray together with her. If she has to work, it is Jesus who wants to work It is Jesus who wants to walk. It is Jesus who wants to take food, who wants to sleep, who wants to get up, who wants to enjoy Himself, and so will all the other things of life. Only in this way can the soul forget herself because she will do everything, not only because I want it, but because I myself want to do it. It is necessary precisely to me. Listen again to that last phrase. It is necessary precisely to Me.
Your ordinary acts are not optional excerpts to Jesus. But how can our ordinary daily acts be of any importance to a divine, eternal God? Because it is His will to live that divine eternal life in all of our actions and to divinize our actions so that His Kingdom can reign on earth.
When we first hear about the Divine Will, it can feel overwhelming. We hear terms like praying the rounds, fusing, living in the Fiat, and we wonder where to start. Jesus gives us the simplest possible starting point. Take the things you already do every day and invite Him to do them in you and as you. This is not about adding more long prayers. It’s about changing the intention behind what you already do.
That should come as a relief to those of you who feel like you never have enough time to focus on prayer. When you say interiorly, “Jesus wants to do this,” two beautiful things happen. First, you begin to forget yourself. Second, Jesus continues His hidden life of Nazareth inside of you, the same life that gave divine value to every human action. This is what Jesus told Luisa about the importance of His hidden life in Nazareth and His own ordinary acts.
The hidden life that I conducted in Nazareth is not taken into consideration by men, when in fact, after my Passion, I could not have done a greater good for them by lowering myself to all those acts, little and lowly, those acts which men do in their daily lives, such as eating, sleeping, drinking, working, starting the fire, sweeping, etc. All acts, which no one can do without, I made a divine little coin of incalculable value flow in their hands. So if My Passion redeemed them, My hidden life provided each human action, even the most insignificant one, with divine merit and with infinite value.
At one point, Luisa was complaining to Jesus, “Yet what great things do I do?”
Nothing. My exterior life is so ordinary that I do things beneath others.
And Jesus told her,
I am used to covering My greatest works with the most ordinary things. So from the outside, everything looks common. But when the human will steps aside and the Divine Will acts, the ordinary becomes the field of extraordinary divine action.
On another occasion, Jesus told Luisa what happens when we allow Him to operate his divine life in the most ordinary human action:
It will be nothing other than a most thin veil, which will serve Me to cover myself and to dwell inside of it, almost like a consecrated Host in which I form My life; I do all the good I want. I pray, I suffer, I enjoy.
Jesus wants us to be Living Hosts of His divine presence. That’s what we’re aiming for. That’s what He’s aiming for. Here’s a practical way to begin. As soon as you wake up, say, “Jesus, I want everything I do today to be you living and acting in me. I give you my will, so your Divine Will can do everything in me.” As you begin each ordinary action, pause for one second and say interiorly, “Jesus wants to pray. Jesus wants to work. Jesus wants to eat. Jesus wants to rest. Jesus wants to love through me.” One short phrase is enough. No long formulas are needed. When you forget to invite Him into your actions — and you will — simply return without discouragement. Smile and say, “Jesus, you want to begin again.” In the Divine Will, there is no failure, only continuous beginning.
Before sleep, look back over the day and say, “Jesus, thank you for living this day in me. Take every act, purify it, and make it Yours.” When you get accustomed to praying in this way, little by little, you forget yourself. The pressure to appear holy disappears, and your ordinary life becomes the place where God hides His greatest works. These acts no longer remain only human. They take on a divine value. They rise up to Heaven. This is why Jesus told Luisa that our ordinary acts are necessary to Him. They give Him the continuous life He desires to live in His children, and they help call the Kingdom of the Divine Will into the world, one ordinary act at a time.
If you’re just starting, don’t worry about being perfect at this. Jesus is not looking for perfect attention; He’s looking for the desire of your will. Every time you remember and say, “Jesus wants to do this in me…” you’re giving Him exactly what He asked for. You’re allowing Him to live again on earth through you. Let’s pray together:
“In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus, I want to forget myself; I am nothing, and you are all. Come live Your life in me. In every ordinary act today, let it be You who acts. Fiat. Amen.”
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of the saints. It wasn’t until she became a “Daughter of Mary” that the nightmares finally ceased at the age of eleven. In the following year, Jesus began to speak interiorly to her especially after receiving Holy Communion. When she was thirteen, He appeared to her in a vision that she witnessed from the balcony of her home. There, in the street below, she saw a crowd and armed soldiers leading three prisoners; she recognized Jesus as one of them. When He arrived beneath her balcony, He raised his head and cried out: “Soul, help Me!” Deeply moved, Luisa offered herself from that day on as a victim soul in expiation for the sins of mankind.
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