"Marie took me on her knees on the evening before these days and prepared me just as she had done for my first communion. I recall how she once spoke to me about suffering. She said she thought God would always carry me like a baby rather than make me tread the path of suffering. After Holy Communion next day I remembered this and was seized with passionate longing to suffer. I felt absolutely certain that Jesus had many, many crosses in store for me. My soul was flooded with such consolation that I regard it as one of the greatest graces of my life. I was drawn to suffering. It had a charm which delighted me, though I didn't really understand much about this charm, for until then I had suffered without loving suffering. But from that day I felt a deep, true love for it."
-St. Therese, Story of a Soul
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I wish I was like her... I encounter suffering and I get bogged down by it and I run from it. It really seems this way sometimes.
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