Anything and everything

Too late have I loved You, O Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! Too late I loved You! And behold, You were within, and I abroad, and there I searched for You; I was deformed, plunging amid those fair forms, which You had made. You were with me, but I was not with You. Things held me far from You – things which, if they were not in You, were not at all. You called, and shouted, and burst my deafness. You flashed and shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors and I drew in breath – and I pant for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Don’t say No when God says Go.

Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father’s love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul’s miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God’s gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

The most important part of waiting is not whether we get what we want or not, but who we become in the process.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.