Flowers

I know, Jesus, that beautiful flowers
Are your friends.
You come from Heavenly prairies
To fetch souls, your sisters.
A soul is the fragrant flower,
That You, Child Jesus, would like to pick.
Jesus, the beautiful lily of the valley,
For the sake of a flower, You want to die!!!...
Ineffable mystery,
The Adorable Word
Will shed tears
When He picks His harvest of Flowers.

-- from The Angels at the Crib by Saint Therese of Lisieux

Kinder

"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."

--J. M. Barrie in The Little White Bird

That I may see

"If we want to be happy, we must learn to see God and His creatures as they are in themselves, and for their own sakes:  we must pray all our lives the prayer of the man in the Gospel:  "Lord, that I may see."

--Rev. Gerald Vann in The Divine Pity

Beauty and poise

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

--Audrey Hepburn

Glad

"We shall be openhearted and openhanded, for we shall know, in the depths of our hearts, that what we are and what we have is not ours but God's, and shall be glad to know it."

--Rev. Gerald Vann in The Divine Pity

Miracle

Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;

To-day the glint of green is there;

Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;

I know no thing so wondrous fair,

No miracle so strangely rare.

I wonder what will next be there!

~L.H. Bailey

Expectations

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."

--Sara Ban Breathnach