- ness? Had I not experienced it I could
not have believed it.
One day when I had an ardent desire for humiliation, it happened that a young postulant so fully satisfied it, that the thought of Semei cursing David came to my mind and I repeated interiorly with the holy King: Yes, it is indeed the Lord who has commanded him to say all these things to me.[1]
Thus the good God takes care of me. He cannot always offer me the strength-giving bread of exterior humiliation, but from time to time He permits me to feast upon the crumbs that fall from the table of the children.[2] How great is His Mercy!
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. X
All creatures might incline towards
the little flower, admiring it and overwhelming
it with their praise, but never
would that add a shadow of vain satisfaction
to the true joy of knowing itself
to be a mere nothing in the sight of God.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. IX
