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Darkness and Light

My Sons:

The night has come!

The bright afternoon gives its place to the arrival of voluminous shadows.

Still the stars are not glittering and there is a predominance of murkiness which is bewildering people accustomed by the brightness.

Everything changes of form when it is enveloped by shadows. Fear establishes and the scenery becomes a place of untrustworthy ghosts. The natural songs convert itself into tragic and frightening melodies, which predict terror. Little by little, fear agitates the heart’s people and those who are not well balanced throw themselves to despair. The tumult establishes itself and the damages are incalculable.

These are days of trials!

Atonements gather the rebellious ones and impose itself painfully. The testimonies invite to pay off old debts, because time of struggle is time of decision. Suffering stands out with no limits and almost no one escapes from its action.

These are days of great change!

However, The Lord cares, placing the stars in the velarium of the night so that little by little speaks about a new dawn.

It’s not surprise my children that difficulty has stood out on your pathway: that lack of comprehension has identified itself with your best feelings; that your most pure words have been villainy understood and your unblemished behave has been insulted by dominant hallucination.

If they were spared then they would not have any merit. If they were unharmed, they would not achieved any evolution in their spiritual development.

However, the moments come in which despair makes its presence so rudely that the tentation of disenchantment shelter itself in the heart and the tendency to abandon the task and to give up of the struggle become almost imperious.

However, at this time be strong!

We are the family of courage; we constitute the group of the faith; we are Jesus workers, the ones who gave a commitment with Him, an exclusive dedication and total work.

Our house will survive after any torments and their workers as well as those from other places, will remain concluding their duties and victorious, they will be chosen by the inner peace.

Do not allow those who are bad, making yourself one of them; those who are licentious making yourself similar to them.

May your faith would not be a hesitating one that like a unrolled flag, changes position according to the direction of the wind...

Our faith is an unrestricted confidence in God, who does not change anything and no negative moral power can alter the route of it.

There will never be lack of help, support, love and strength so that you can overcome the difficulties of the pathway.

You will never be without friendly hearts “ from this side” as well as the loyal friends who respect the assumed commitment .They will be beside you, witnessing fidelity to goodness and truth according to the calling of the Lord.

Therefore, do not be afraid of any challenge nor disappointment or provocation. Go ahead jovial with responsibility, happy and conscious of our duties, keeping in mind sons of the soul that we are not gathered here on this planet by chance.

We had planed our work before the days of Codification. We had many times meetings “on this side” so that we could draw the plan of action.

The Lord has given us His blessing and the angel of Assisi promised us support to any circumstances.

We should not count as success the triumph and applause of Earth, but the silent tears of the solitary nights.

Do not consider as your triumphs the pleasant news from the press, the support of media, which elevate and denigrate with the same frivolity of those who make part of them. Keep in mind that the biggest victory is always over passions and darkness, which stand out in our innermost lighting. There will be the light of harmony.

Do not consider yourself abandon, when pain is visiting your heart, because if it was like that, Jesus would have been abandoned by the Father and Francis of Assisi would have been without the support of his Friend.

We who have debts with Divine Accounting received the honour of pay them off by the love and action of goodness, rescuing those who are suffering more than us and supporting the needy that come to us.

Sons of soul: soon will be midnight. But as the first minute goes bay then it will be the beginning of the early morning and the sun will shine again.

Love, love, loves more!

If someone gives you trouble, love. This person is sick.

If another person deceives you, love. This person is blind.

If someone else persecutes you, love. This person is insane.

Always love my sons.

Our house is the house of love. It is the pathway of our redemption.

Redeeming ourselves, we will together reach triumph with the tears of happiness, even when our feet, hands and heart are covered by wounds, testifying that we have not been useless or inefficient workers, but constant workers of the Lord’s field.

Love more and always.

Write down in your hearts these words:

...And when the night would be darker, before the arrival of the tears, remember them so that they can diminish the shadow that perhaps insistently try to remain in the scenery of your hearts.

We will never be alone my sons, never!

Begging Jesus to bless and protect us, the humble and maternal servant of always,

                                                                                    Joanna De Angelis

Message received by the medium Divaldo P. Franco on 27/10/1993 at the Spiritist Centre “Pathway to Redemption”, in Salvador, Brazil.

Translated from the original in Portuguese by SGB -  revised by Munir Gariba

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