Let us bear our cross and leave it to God to determine the length and the weight.

How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

Lord, I lean on You alone for strength. Give me your arm to support me, your shoulders to carry me, your breast on which to lay my head, your Cross to uphold me, your Eucharist to nourish me. On you Lord, I shall sleep and rest in peace.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

I am where God wills me to be, and so I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me, His power defends me, His grace sanctifies me, His mercy encompasses me, His joy sustains me and all will go well with me.

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

He who has Jesus has everything.