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“Return, you exiles who now have hope; return to your place of safety. I tell you now; I will repay you twice over with blessing for all you have suffered.” [Zechariah 9:12-13]
 
“Bring me back; let me come back, for You are the Lord my God! Yes I turned away, but have since repented.” [Jeremiah 31:18]
 
“With great love I will take you back…for a moment I hid my face from you. But with everlasting love I have taken pity on you’ says God, your redeemer.” [Isaiah 54:7-8]
 
“God restored Job’s fortunes because he had prayed for his friends. More than that, God gave him double what he had before.” [Job 42:10]
 
“By the mouths of children, you have made sure of praise.” [Psalm 8:2]
“You have trained children and babies to offer perfect praise.” [Matthew 21:16]
 
“See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven.” [Matthew 18:10]
 
“You must never believe, when you don’t practice virtue, that it is due to some natural cause like illness, time, or grief. You must draw a great lesson in humility from it and take your place among the little souls, since you are able to practice virtue only in such a feeble manner.” [St Therese of Lisieux]
 
“It is love alone that counts,” wrote St Therese. “And love is total abandonment, the blind trust of a little child in its heavenly father, which cannot work without a profound humility and which becomes, without anyone suspecting it, a natural virtue as it is in all little ones.”
 
Therese wrote, “Jesus is well pleased with you; I know it; although He still allows you infidelities in your heart. I am sure that the actions of love, which He gathers up, outnumber them by far."
 
“If it were necessary to do great things we should be deserving of pity, but we are happy beyond measure, because Jesus lets Himself be captured by the smallest action. [St. Therese of Lisieux]
 
“It seems to me that if our sacrifices take Jesus captive, our joys make Him prisoner too. All that is needful to attain this end is that, instead of giving ourselves over to selfish happiness, we offer to (Him) the little joys He scatters in our path to charm our hearts and draw them towards Him. {St Therese of Lisieux]
 
“Thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel.
Your salvation lay in conversion and tranquillity,
your strength in complete trust." Isaiah 30, 15-18)
 
Having nothing
When you find you have nothing, in mind or body, that is when Jesus has all ready to give you from the Cross.
 
The answer.
When you have exhausted all ways of finding the answer to your problem, it is then that you realize Jesus holds all answers. Ask and it shall be given unto you.
 
God is,
God is a motivator, when your motivator in life (sport, music, persons, work relationships) do not give you the joy of spirit, or the love of spirit it is because your god is a lesser god.
Only God Jesus Holy Spirit can give joy under all conditions at all times.

That is why He is “I AM”.
 
Of Saints
Those canonized as saints have been, through God’s anointing. They are a reflection of Christ.
Me can be given direction in life through them, but we are not to try to be them, we are our self. God needs us to be who He wishes us to be for HIS glory.
 
The office of simplicity is to make us go straight to God, without regard to human respect or our own interests. It leads us to tell things candidly, and just as they exist in our hearts. It leads us to act simply, without admixture of hypocrisy and artifice, and finally, keeps us at a distance from every kind of deceit and double-dealing. -----St. Vincent. de Paul
 
True simplicity is like that of children, who think, speak, and act candidly and without craftiness. They believe whatever is told them; they have no care or thought for themselves, especially when with their parents; they cling to them, without going to seek their own satisfactions and consolations, which they take in good faith, and enjoy’ with simplicity, without any curiosity about their causes and effects. -----St. Francis. de Sales.
 
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

– Dag Hammarskjold.
 
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