Don't let your life be barren. Be useful. Make yourself felt. Shine forth with the torch of your faith and your love.
The Way #1
Josemaria Escriva
Love makes suffering fruitful and suffering deepens love.
If God is our God, and if God is our All, there should be no limit to our confidence and hope in Him. Yet, as a matter of experience, one sees that it is often through want of confidence that men turn away from the pursuit of perfection.
We have to learn to abandon ourselves, leaving the results of our struggle in God’s hands, for only abandonment, trust in God, can overcome this unrest.
We will have to help others in a way they may not notice but which lightens their burden.
We think we need every question answered. Our brains tell us we do. We don’t.
The gift of fortitude, which is so necessary in our path toward heaven, is obtained from God through prayer and the sacraments.
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."