In Love With The Lord

A Prayer for Our Living Souls

The reason why our love is so holy and so heavenly is that it began from the Lord himself in the inmost of both of us, and descended accordingly to order to the ultimate of God, and so fills both of us with heavenly love and induces upon us a form of heaven, and is an image of the Lord. We have both been affected by love and enlightened by faith, now we must talk from faith and confirm ourselves thereby in truth and good. When we utter truths and do good deeds from faith, with love, the things that we produce will be called living souls. If we begin to act at once both from faith and love, we become spiritual indeed. Our spiritual lives will be delighted and sustained by those things which are cognitions of faith and of works of charity, and our natural lives will be delighted and supported by those things that belong to the body and the senses; and when a conflict arises, love reigns and thus we become celestial.