One of the principle obstacles to the interior life is lack of peace. We are never entirely in the present moment. We are groaning over what has happened, or agitating ourselves over what is about to happen or could happen. We erect a pyramid of the difficulties we have already had and those which we foresee. And then this mountain crushes us...
..."God will provide!"...
..."Seek God within yourself. Be the repose of God, and God will be your Repose."...
... Abandon the past to Mercy, the future to Providence, the present to Love. God asks only one thing of us: to love Him fully in the duty of the present moment with its joy, its labor, its suffering; to lend oneself to it with all the living forces of the soul; to open the soul wide to the overwhelming and urgent grace it bring; to yield one's soul up to it, pliant, and, at the same time, active; "to be completely faithful to the action of love in order to give each portion of grace its maximum return for His glory."...
Raoul Plus, Toward the Eternal Priesthood, New York: Pustet, 1946, 281.
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