RESIGNATION TO GOD'S WILL

Walk in the way ...

Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.

Lean on the Cross ...

Lean on the Cross of Jesus as the Virgin did and you will not be deprived of comfort. Mary was as if paralyzed before her crucified Son, but one cannot say that she was abandoned by Him. Rather how much more did she love Him when she suffered and could not even weep?
Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will. All lovers of Jesus must conform themselves always more to this divine and eternal Model. Jesus went to the limits of abandonment of the spirit. Jesus wanted to experience in his humanity this incomprehensible pain of seeing Himself abandoned by his heavenly Father.

You should rather humble ...

You should rather humble yourself before God than be distressed if He reserves for you the sufferings of his Son, and makes you experience your weakness. You should offer up to Him the prayer of resignation and hope, even when you fail through frailty, and thank Him for all the benefits with which He continually enriches you.

You are suffering, it ...

You are suffering, it is true, but with resignation. Fear not because God is with you. You do not offend Him but love Him. You suffer, but believe also that Jesus Himself suffers in you and for you.

Crosses are the necklaces ...

Crosses are the necklaces of the Spouse and I am jealous of them.

My sufferings are pleasant. ...

My sufferings are pleasant. I only suffer when I don't suffer.

The ardent desire to ...

The ardent desire to be in eternal peace is good and holy. But it is necessary to moderate it by a complete resignation to the Divine Will. It is better to do the Divine Will on earth than to enjoy heaven. To suffer and not to die was the motto of St. Therese. Purgatory is sweet when one suffers for the love of God.

Why should you worry ...

Why should you worry whether Do wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the another one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity? Keep far from you all excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you. And if this is not possible put away the thoughts, and in all live resigned to the Divine Will.

You should feel at ...

You should feel at home with the sufferings which it pleases Jesus to send you, since you always have to live with them. Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.

Strong and generous hearts ...

Strong and generous hearts are not grieved except for serious reasons; and then do not allow such motives to penetrate into their inmost heart. Let us ascend Calvary, burdened with the Cross but without tiring. And let us be convinced that our ascent will lead us to the heavenly vision of our sweetest Saviour.

The longer the trial ...

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

When you are exposed ...

When you are exposed to any trial, be it physical or moral, bodily or spiritual, the best remedy is to think of Jesus who is our life and not to think of the trial without joining it to the thought of Jesus.

Don't draw back, and ...

Don't draw back, and worse still, don't stop going up the Calvary of life. Jesus will extend his hand to steady you. The thought of the sustaining grace of God and the prize that Jesus has reserved for you will be a sweet comfort.