Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3032

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3032. Some were grieving that they would thus lose their own [family], a result of their remaining bodily love, but they were told in reply that in place of them they would receive thousands, whom they would love much more, and more happily; also that all should acknowledge the Lord as the one only Parent of all, like innocent [children], but that the Lord is Father to all, and thus all who are in the Lord's place, according to each one's ability to receive [Him]; and likewise that they also who are the Lord's, are also in the place of parents.


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