In God we trust☀️🙏🏻

Killian returning to Vancouver having enjoyed to the full, five fabulous family weeks together, timely uplifting message on my calendar makes me pause and pray. Impossible to be unhappy and grateful at the same time.

I am reading an extraordinary book right now. ‘He leadeth me’, by Daniel J. Flaherty.  Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent twenty agonising years in Soviet prisons and labour camps in Siberia. Only through an utter reliance on God’s will did he manage to endure the extreme hardship. 

Amazing read. Layer upon enlightening layer. I urge one and all to check it out. Too beautiful not to share!

‘God does not ask the impossible of any man. He was not asking more of me, really, than He asks of every man, every Christian, each day of his life. He was asking that I learn to see these suffering men around me, these circumstances in the prison at Perm, as sent from His Hand and ordained by His providence. He was asking me to do something as another Christ’. (Fr. Ciszek)

So glad I know you Father Ciszek. So glad I know you, Dorothy Day, too. How blessed we are to be guided on our earthly pilgrimage by those brave generous souls who walked this way already, step by painful step.

‘Nor was I powerless to do it, for it was within my power to do it, and I could count on His Grace to sustain me. Not the least of His graces was the light to see and understand this truth; to see that this day, like all the days of my life come from His Hands and served a purpose in His providence. I had to learn to believe that, no matter what the circumstances, and to act accordingly, with complete trust and confidence in His will, His wisdom and His Grace. (Fr. Ciszek)

‘We must contain ourselves in patience, remembering each morning that our main job is to love God and serve Him, and if we don’t get things done due to interruptions, well, it cannot be helped and God will take care of what we leave undone’. (Dorothy Day/The reckless way of Love)

‘I need each one of you as though you were the only person in the world, as though the cosmos had been created for you alone, and My love is greater than the cosmos. So let this thought be a strength to you and your smiling calm’. (Jesus to Gabrielle Bossis/He and I)

‘Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father’. (Matthew 5:16)