Sep 5 Fri
What should I do when I feel alone?
God is at our side. “We are never alone. It's a shame that we Christians forget we are a throne for the Blessed Trinity. I advise you to develop the custom of seeking God in the depths of your heart. This is what it means to have interior life."
St. Josemaría said: Someone may say to me: "Father, I seek him in my soul..., but I don't find anything."
"I would tell that child of mine: perhaps you've had little interior life, or perhaps you've had a lot, but now God wants to test you. Does your soul seem to be an empty cistern? Well, seek God's love! Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually. But do so with the same determination people put into winning a clean human love. Seek God like that, and be sure that everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened."
"Where there's no water, what do people do? They build a reservoir, and then carry water to it in buckets, emptying them one by one. When you find it impossible to recollect yourself for prayer, you must prepare yourself by carrying water to the reservoir: by acts of love and reparation, spiritual Communions, invocations to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to our Lady, St Joseph, and our holy Guardian Angels. All this is the water we bring by dint of our effort."
"We may have to keep doing so for a long time, but if we persevere, the moment will come when we won't need to go in search of water, for a well will have formed. Perhaps at the beginning, the water doesn't rise easily, but it is a well of living water, present in the depths of your soul. You don't know where the water comes from, nor how it collects there, nor when it's going to flow... but you can always drink from it. And if you are persistent, the water in the well rises and rises, until it forms a spring of clear water where you can always quench your thirst, drinking with both hands, with your mouth wide open."
"Do you understand, my children? There's always water available. Each of you, with the help of the triune God hidden in your soul, must never be an empty reservoir, but a well of water that rises until it becomes a spring of marvelous, clear water, the water of love. But you have to put your whole heart into this effort."
“In this life, we will never lack joys or sorrows. But don't forget that if our Lord sends us joy, it is because He loves us; and if He sends us some sorrow, it is to see if we really love him."
“As long as we are wayfarers, we will necessarily have victories and defeats. But we recover our supernatural peace the moment we return to God, the moment we come close to our Lord, fleeing the little consolations which earthly things can offer. People are happy when they really give themselves to God."