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Sacrifice and Suffering out of Love for God. The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved …More
Sacrifice and Suffering out of Love for God.

The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.--St. John of the Cross

'When it is all over you will not regret having suffered; rather you will regret having suffered so little, and suffered that little so badly.'--St. Sebastian Valfre

“One day, I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end of the road without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell. And there numbers were so great that it was impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness, and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings."--Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, #153
Juliesloveslotr
Thank you for your beautiful message soundingjoy, and everyone else too. It is by suffering that one learns how to love. The more your love for Our Lord grows, so does the desire to console Him, and eventually like St. Therese you will not be able to suffer anymore, because all suffering will become sweet to you.
Angy
Beautiful
soundingjoy
Beautiful video Juliesloveslotr,oh it is often so, that the believer has never known how deeply God loves him, how truly a child of God he is, and how tender and faithful his Father's love, until God has afflicted him. Then he sees love, and nothing but love, in the trial or bereavement that has crushed, the moment tried and sifted, faith disentangles itself of second causes, and rests in God. At …More
Beautiful video Juliesloveslotr,oh it is often so, that the believer has never known how deeply God loves him, how truly a child of God he is, and how tender and faithful his Father's love, until God has afflicted him. Then he sees love, and nothing but love, in the trial or bereavement that has crushed, the moment tried and sifted, faith disentangles itself of second causes, and rests in God. At that moment, the bitter and unlovely bulb bursts into the sweet and beautious flower, laden with the dew and bathed in the sunshine of heaven. It is thus that ~~ sanctified sorrows yield to the believer the richest fruit ~~and in the valley he drinks from sweeter springs that flow from the mountain's top.
Bless you, Soundingjoy
holyrope 3
Another great video Julianna! Thank you! 👏❤