Live 4 The LORD

Here is what enables a soul to remain faithful and tranquil in its various states of suffering and privation. It believes in the presence of God whom it does not see; it hopes in Him against all hope; it abandons itself to Him, even when it seems to be abandonded by Him; it continues to love Him in the midst of disgust, sorrow, and bitterness; it keeps itself in conformity with His severe and crucifying decrees; it suffers a martyrdom of love; it humbles itself in the knowledge of its miseries; it remains content in its poverty, and blesses God like Job upon his dunghill... Oh, if a soul did but know the honour it gives to God by this prayer of patience! If it but knew the treasures of merit that it gathers in at every moment, it would never wish to change its state.. —Rev. Dom Vitalis Lehodey