The spiritual and mental storms which we have to face
at times in our lives
can be just as brutal and devastating!
They are just as much a reality
and can leave us feeling totally helpless
and wondering
how we can possibly make it through the day!
This is when we need someone to cling
to which can give us Love and Peace!
This is when the only One
Who can give to us this assurance is Jesus!

Helen Johnson

I am Yours, completely Yours,
and I wish to disappear in You, O Jesus,
I wish to be lost in Your divine beauty.
You pursue me with Your love, O Lord;
You penetrate my soul like a ray of the sun
and change its darkness into Your light.
I feel very vividly
that I am living in You as one small spark
swallowed up by the incomprehensible fire
with which You burn, O inconceivable Trinity!
No greater joy is to be found than that of loving God.
Already here on earth,
we can taste the happiness of those in heaven
by an intimate union with God,
a union that is extraordinary
and often quite incomprehensible to us.
One can attain this very grace
through simple faithfulness of soul.

from St. Faustina's diary