Splinters from the Cross

[blessedstar]

I wanted to share with you all this little prayer that I have on a fridge magnet that my mother gave to me:

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Splinter from the Cross***

Little headaches, little heartaches
Little griefs of every day.
Little trials and vexations,
How they throng around our way!
One great cross, immense and heavy,
so it seems to our weak will,
Might be borne with resignation,
But these many small ones kill.
Yet all life is formed of small things,
Little leaves, make up the trees,
Many tiny drops of water
Blending, make the mighty seas.
Let us not then by impatience
Mar the beauty of the whole,
But for love of Jesus bear all
In the silence of our soul.
Asking Him for grace sufficient
To sustain us through each loss,
And to treasure each small offering
As a splinter from His Cross.

I pray this often to remind me God sends me small trials and sufferings everyday for love of me that I might bear them by His grace and offer them to Him for love of Him and others. To be small and treasure the smallness of life and offer all small things so that by the end of my life, God willing, at Holy Mass I have offered a mountain of love to Jesus in many small ways and small things.

 

[Pani_Rose]

AMEN!

I have seen a splinter of the True Cross. Sometimes I am just amazed when I see it, so precious, and yet taken so much for granted. IT is always there, always present as is the Eucharist, so often ignored, yet always giving life.

Thank you JESUS!