God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

God will not be outdone in generosity.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.