master of my faculties in such sort that my actions shall no longer be human or personal, but wholly divine, inspired and directed by the Spirit of Love."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
You are quite wrong to think of
sorrows that the future may bring;
it is, as it were, intermeddling with
Divine Providence. We who run in
the way of Love must never torment
ourselves about anything. If I did not
suffer minute by minute, it would be
impossible for me to be patient; but I
see only the present moment, I forget
the past and I take good care not to
anticipate the future. If we grow dis-*heartened,
if sometimes we despair, it is
because we have been dwelling on the
past or the future.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
I no longer thirst for either suffering or
death, yet both I dearly prize. Long
did I call upon them as the harbingers of
