July 4th
With Love and for Love
There is no harm in seating ourselves for awhile, when necessity demands, but we should not so remain during the whole time of prayer. Such tender care of self is not to be always practiced, for it is dangerous and can do much harm in the way of salvation. It does not upset me to learn that someone has fallen asleep at prayer, so long as everything possible has been done to achieve recollection. Drowsiness must be humbly borne, and we must hold ourselves before God like a statue to receive whatever God may send. Our Lord is sometimes pleased to watch us struggling against sleep through the whole time of prayer without wishing to deliver us. This we must endure calmly and must even welcome our pitiful condition. Never say that there is nothing to be done, becuase something always lies within our power if we wish it. Otherwise we shall be maintaining that our Lord has ordered the impossible, and this is not so. We can do all things with grace, and grace never fails us.
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