loaded with verdant buds, lay strewn upon the ground! It was heartrending to view this destruction, and to think that three years must pass ere I could see it repaired. . . . My distress however did not last. 'If I were in another monastery,' thought I, 'what difference would it make to me if the chestnut trees in the Carmel of Lisieux were cut down altogether? I will fret no more about transitory things; my Well-Beloved shall take the place of all else for me. . . . I will wander ever in the groves of His love, which none may touch!'"
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
She said to her novices: "You are too
much taken up about what you are
doing, you torment yourselves concerning
the future as if you had the care of
it. . . . Are you at this moment preoccupied
with what is passing in other
Carmels, as to whether the nuns are
pressed or not? Do their labours hinder
your prayer or meditation? Very well,
so, too, ought you to be detached from
