6. The Divine Beloved speaks to the soul in a whisper, but because the soul is waiting for a trumpet, it loses His command. All of us would like to make our own crosses-tailor-made trials. But not many of us welcome the crosses God sends. Yet it is in doing perfectly the little chores He gives that saints find holiness. The big, world-shattering things many of us imagine we would like to do for God might, in the end, feed only our egotism. On the other hand, to accept the crosses of our state of life because they come from an all-loving God is to have taken the most important step in the reformation of the world, namely, the reformation of the self. Sanctity can be built out of patient endurance of the incessant grumbling of a spouse, the boss’s habit of smoking a pipe at the office, the noise the children make with their soup, the unexpected illness, the failure to find a marital partner, the inability to get rich. All these can become occasions of merit and be made into prayers if they are borne patiently for love of One Who bears so patiently with us, despite our shortcomings, our failures, and our sins. Fulton J. Sheen, From the Angel’s Blackboard –The Best of Fulton J. Sheen (Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 1998), p. 8.
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