To find God just as much in small and ordinary things as in great ones is to have a faith that is not ordinary but great and extraordinary. To be satisfied with the present moment is to taste and adore the divine will in everything that confronts one to be suffered or done, in what successively makes up the present moment. Simple souls, through the liveliness of their faith, bow down before God just as much in the most humiliating of states. Nothing hides him from the piercing eye of their faith... Nothing surprises them, nothing dismays them. Mary was to witness the apostles running away but she will continually remain at the foot of the Cross and will acknowledge her son, however disfigured he is by the spitting and wounds... The life of faith is nothing but a constant pursuit of God through whatever disguises, disfigures or, so to speak, destroys and crushes him. See Mary again, from stable to cross, always finding a God whom everyone else fails to recognize, abandons and persecutes. In the same way souls of faith look beyond a continual sequence of deaths, concealments, shadows and likenesses vying to render God's will unrecognizable. Souls like these pursue and love it even to death on the cross. They know that they always have to leave shadows behind in order to run after this divine sun. From its rising to its setting, whatever the thick, dark clouds concealing it, it enlightens, warms and enkindles faithful hearts who bless, praise and contemplate it.
