The Lord is Always with us as our Strength and Stay.

I was going through my wallet on the train today, and came across a quotation that I scrawled onto a piece of red paper many years ago. The year I graduated from college, in fact. Before meeting T, before falling in love, before getting married, before becoming pregnant, before losing my girls, before experiencing the pains of infertility, and before finally opening my heart again. I should read this more often, because when I stumbled upon it this morning, it breathed new life into me. Let us have confidence, after all! The Lord is ALWAYS with us.

It is the easiest and also the one right thing: Wherever the Lord has allotted us our place, we should live wholeheartedly and accept reality, just as it is.  If, then, we find ourselves in a situation that overwhelms us, we will have the goodwill to learn gladly and not flinch at the difficulties or the burden.  For we know that this makes us able to serve better…

Everything is simple in Christ, our friend and brother.  Yet, how inclined we are to make the simplest things difficult and complicated.  “If you do not become like children, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.”  This kingdom is simplicity, peace, and joy from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…

Let us have confidence!  What seemed to be impossible yesterday can with God’s grace become possible tomorrow.

God is good.  Let us surrender ourselves to him in the plights of our times, fully, quietly, and without counting the costs.

The Lord is always with us in his all-wise Providence as our strength and our stay.

- Mother Julia Verhaeghe

Have a blessed day, and may your hearts be at peace.