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Y son, I ought to be thy supreme and ultimate end, if thou desire to be truly blessed.

By this intention thy affections will be purified, which are too often inordinately inclined to selfishness and unto creatures.

For if in anything thou seekest thyself, immediately thou faintest and driest up.

I would therefore thou shouldst refer all things principally unto Me, for I am He Who hast given all.

Consider every thing as flowing from the Highest Good; and therefore unto Me as their original all must return.

2. From Me, as from a living fountain, the small and the great, the poor and the rich, do draw the water of life; and they that willingly and freely serve Me shall receive grace for grace.

But he who desires to glory in things out of Me, or to take pleasure in some private good, shall not be grounded in true joy, nor be enlarged in his heart, but shall many ways be encumbered and straitened.

Thou oughtest therefore to ascribe nothing of good to thyself, nor do thou attribute goodness unto any man; but give all unto God, without Whom man hath nothing.

I have given all on thee, and My will is to have