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0580 Answer in love.... explanation for suffering....

September 12, 1938: Book 12

Where there is much light, there is also much shadow.... People often harbour an unusual hatred towards their creator, Who loves all souls equally without reservation. Nevertheless, people do not know how I share, as it were, in the suffering that oppresses them and how I take it upon Myself to offer them the healing potion that makes their fate on earth more favourable. They can partake of every grace and every relief will be granted to them if only they want it.... Yet in such a hardened state it is difficult to turn their will towards Me, and yet I must respect everyone's free will.... I must not intervene arbitrarily and change destinies, which would only have the opposite effect.... a strengthening of their self-consciousness.... because this would move these children further and further away from me. If a permanent state were to arise in which the human being on earth were to be liberated from his suffering, immense selfishness would soon take hold and the soul would find it difficult to free itself from its shell, for every spiritual question would remain unanswered by people, since life in carefreeness would offer enough to satisfy the human being's thoughts. It would indeed be incomparably better for the earthly body, yet it will pass away and nothing of the pleasures of the world will remain for the soul, but it will pass into the beyond naked and freezing and have to accept the same battle there........ yet far more difficult.... which I would have spared you in earthly life out of false fatherly love. Do you not believe that your father, in His wisdom, recognizes everything and always determines what is best for His creatures? Should it not be left to Him, to Whom all creation is subject, which path He marks out for the individual being? Would you know the torment that awaits you if I let you live unrestrainedly according to your wishes? Or can you judge what bliss awaits you if you correctly value the life imposed on you and live according to My will? Do you believe that I take pleasure in seeing you suffer.

O you fools, My love suffers with you whom I have created.... and yet no longer want to be Mine. The desire for you is unspeakable but My power is of no use there.... you must voluntarily find your way to Me, and this cannot be achieved again through a comfortable and carefree life.... In eternity you would then not find the path to Me. For I Myself am love, patience, truth and mercy.... How can you reconcile this if you believe that I want you to suffer.... If you confess Me you will feel My love like mild balm on your suffering and My grace will constantly help you.... and all suffering will be taken from you when it has fulfilled its purpose.... the connection of the child to the father's heart....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers