Good Morning Lovely Ladies. Miss Emily is sick today, so it’s me again.
I’m not quite ready to end our month of being little.
I’ve been reading some of St Paul’s letters in the New Testament and wondering
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How can one be little for Christ and yet preach Christ boldly?
Are they contradictory?
I came across this sweet little quote of St Therese and thought I’d share it with you.
Isn’t that a lovely mental image she paints with her humble little words?
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This reminds me of a retreat I did a few years ago. I had spent years trying to be all sorts of things, successful, professional, hard-working. None of these things are bad in themselves but I was working long hours to fulfill an image that was false. On the retreat I realised that I am really, really small and that I am that way so that God can pick me up in his arms and carry me to his father’s heart. Suddenly I was free. All the stuff I was trying to be, all the expectations I was trying to fulfill fell away. I am small and I am that way so that God can love me. Nothing else matters.
My experience is similar to yours, Julianne. But you give me now an added precious angle — being small makes it easier for me to reach Heaven. Thank God and you for that valuable insight.
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How can one be little for Christ and yet preach Christ boldly? I think it is really “only” by being “little” that one can truly and effectively preach Christ. It is the “I must decrease, He must increase” thing. The less there is of me, the more there is of Him for others to see and hear.
Are they contradictory? No, it is no longer me, but Christ in me!
I love St. Therese, because, even though she was herself holy from an early age, she really speaks to the rest of us who were not. I might get discouraged looking at the saints, thinking, “I can’t do that.” But Therese says, “Be little.” And I say, “I can do that!”
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