The unitive state is when the soul begins to live in God’s will. She has persevered through the first nail of dying to her desires, expectations, plans, and attachments. She has persevered in denying herself. She continues to persevere in prayer and silence with the eyes of her soul gazing at My love crucified. She has climbed the steps of poverty and chastity and has arrived at obedience. Obedience is the virtue needed and perfected in the unitive state; for now, the soul lives solely to do the will of the Father regardless of what it will cost her, for when a soul lives solely in My Will, she will experience much suffering in the world, for the ways of the world and the ways of God oppose one another. She now rejoices in misunderstanding, humiliations, criticisms, persecutions, loss of friendships… for her only desire has become My Cross solely for love of Me.