Jesus answers me directly:
“I understand and sympathize with your sadness. It is not that sadness which I denounce as a sin.
“Blameworthy sadness is that which comes from unwillingness to accept things and crosses - the former being human, and the latter, supernatural. Blameworthy sadness is the thirst for enjoyment, wealth, a thirst which is not satisfied and which brings you sadness, or a thirst which, after being sated, leaves you sadder than before, because conscience weeps in you. This is the sadness which I condemn.
“But the good sadness, felt more over the misfortunes of others than over one’s own, the grief caused by seeing God offended, the affliction over bonds of love which are broken - I do not condemn that. I experienced it before you and I wept.
“Moreover, when the soul rises even higher and not only possesses in herself a sadness which is not condemnable, but is able to give Me that sadness of hers so that I may use her tears for the good of others, then I take this soul and cradle her over my Heart to lull her affliction to sleep and give her my joy.
“You feel it. I know that you feel it seeping into you. Those jolts of relief you feel, which seem to you sunbeams in the darkness coming to you from many things, and which seem to you liberation from the burdens prostrating you, are Me coming into you with my joy.
“You also have intuited the origin of so much darkness in the pain invading you for your good. Yes. You, by living in Me and for Me, unleash the wrath of the Enemy, and he, unable to do anything else, seeks to terrify you by rendering the future blacker than it already is. But do not be afraid. I am with you.
“Your sadness is also increased by reflecting on the words I speak to your soul, not for you, but for all. But do not refuse to receive them. I have so few people in the whole wide world who strain to hear my Word! The ones I would like to speak to to lead them back onto the way of Life do not want to listen to Me. I then speak to the few who want to listen to Me. When it is useful, what I have said to my faithful secretly will be made known, and the Word will thus continue to resound in the world.
“Do not elude my work, then, whatever it may be. Do not boast about it and do not be afraid of it. Let Me act. I never do anything without a purpose. Always come to Me with that confidence which is so pleasing to Me. When I find a confident soul, I open my Heart and enclose her within it. Do you think that anything which is a real evil can happen to you if you are enclosed in my Heart? Why, not even Hell can harm you as long as you are there. And you’ll be there as long as you are pure, loving, confident, and faithful.”