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When God deigns to speak to a soul, all creatures must cease to do so. And this favour I see is yours through divine mercy.
You must adhere to this practice of looking at God within you, and it will absorb all others. Let him act according to his good pleasure so that whether he gives you sweet or bitter, satisfaction or dissatisfaction, it may be all one to you.
Give little thought to either, but only to him, following faithfully and simply the light he will give you for your good in each event. Let him act, and you will see how he will strip you of everything till there is nothing that you care for save communion with him.
May his divine goodness keep you in this way, even unto the utmost perfection of his holy love. Be joyous and brave, I beg of you, and you will experience how sweet God is. Pray for me.
- Excerpt from the Spiritual Conferences of St. Francis de Sales, on prayer given to the Sisters of the Visitation; an undated letter. |
