I go back time and again to reading St. Therese of the Child Jesus "Little Way" of living her life. I struggle frequently with getting through my days without aggravations, stress and letting things annoy me. So by reading about St. Therese and how she just did 'little things' as acts of love for Jesus, it helps me to also just "offer up" some injury or sadness I am experiencing today.
"Her life was routine and ordinary but steeped in a loving commitment that knew no breakdown."
St. Therese knew the difference love makes by allowing love to be the statement she made each day of her life. To many even in the convent, Therese was an average ordinary person. Her greatness showed in the constancy of her love for others in the most simple ways.
She did not like long prayers, she fell asleep during community prayer and could only pray from her heart as a child does to a parent. She saw herself as a child of God and liked to keep things simple and focused as a child does. Trust, specially trust in God, is a childlike virtue. It's that childlike trust that we should have at all times, but especially when things hurt us in our lives. When it seems "God lets things happen to us." that we need to trust. Because God gave all humans free will, some will choose evil and that evil may hurt us. But God is always there and though He doesn't will something bad to happen, it happens because people choose evil, God is there to help you when you get hurt.
God always loves you, especially when you are sorrowing, sad and despairing. Reach out to Him and ask for His help.
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