These few suggestions humbly… I pray these words do good and no harm. Peace to you.
Open your heart to God. Become annihilated in God and born anew.
Do not let the devils torment and obsess you with the past and sad memories, but retain only the memories of God’s goodness who has brought you out of the pits of the sinners and their world. His divine rescue.
Lose yourself in His charity.
Give of yourself to dwell constantly with Him.
Many saints have suffered for Providence, like in the case of St. '
Saint Lydwine of Schiedam.
Her condition became so bad that at one time she had virtually come apart in three pieces.
Some of the quotes from her biography that strike me, ‘at night she wept tears of blood which froze to her cheeks’, ‘they had to bind her up in order that she should not break in pieces’, ‘Besides these ulcers in which colonies of worms fed without destroying them’, ‘Her forehead was cleft from the roots of the hair to the center of the nose; her chin dropped under the lower lip, and her mouth swelled; her right eye was extinguished, and the other became so tender that the least light caused it to bleed. She suffered also from a violent toothache, which raged sometimes for weeks and rendered her half mad;’
Every life is different trials, yet for every life the ultimate call is the same. The clear way of God.
God calls you to transcend your past and current and future sufferings, and to seek Him without comparing oneself to others but with your own whole self. Sin is so great we cannot compare in and around us, we cannot compare so we focus on God.
St. Lydwine suffered the greatest before she understood how to suffer God’s will in her sufferings, to suffer with Him rather than against.
Embrace purity… God’s purity… We all have the vocation to perfection, and invisibly or visibly God is always there providing the means in each life for it. . . The religious state is the ordinary call because it is the easiest road to perfection, because its exterior practices are of the perfect.
Embrace the means He calls you to and you will lose all that troubles you of your past, focusing on Him, and forgetting all that has troubled you and brought you to tears.
A new life of tears of joy in the Lord is the call, sake, and reason for our rescue.
We are truly made anew in Christ! He has called you out of the trash heap of the world to be a new creation with a new name!
Become that new person in Christ!
‘My heart is not like that of others, for it only rejoices in its Lord; and therefore give Him to me.’
‘I do not wish a love which may be described as for God, or in God. I cannot see those words,
for and
in, without their suggesting to me that something may intervene between God and me; and that is what pure and simple love, by reason of its purity and simplicity, is unable to endure. This purity and simplicity is as great as God is, for it is his own.’
‘“Know then that I despise thee and would rather choose to be condemned to hell without thee, than to possess God through thy means,” . . . Thus scorned, my
self knew not what to answer, and never more had courage to assert itself;’
St. Catherine of Genoa
