Darryl Friesen’s Reviews > Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul > Status Update

Page 20-“Believing myself to be deluded, I resolved to avoid God interiorly for fear of these illusions. But the grace of God pursued me at every step, and God spoke to me when I least expected it.”

Pages 15-16-“Darkness continued to reign in my soul for almost half a year. Once, when I was praying, Jesus pervaded all my soul, darkness melted away, and I heard these words within me: “You are My joy; you are My heart‘s delight.” From that moment, I felt the Most Holy Trinity in my heart; that is to say, within myself. I felt that I was inundated with Divine light…like a child with its beloved Father.”

Page 9—“I sensed that I had a heart so big that nothing would be capable of filling it. And so I turned with all the longing of my soul to God.”

Page 6—“Jesus, You see how difficult it is for me to write, how unable I am to put down clearly what I experience in my soul. O God, can a pen write down that for which many a time there are no words? But You give the order to write, O God; that is enough for me.”

I love that intersection of honesty and obedience!

So excited to finally get to this! I’m reading it devotionally, just a few pages per morning, for the second half of 2026.