When We Cannot Attain to the Highest, We Must Practice the Humble Works
The Voice of Christ
MY CHILD, you cannot always continue in the more fervent desire of virtue, or remain in the
higher stage of contemplation, but because of humanity’s sin you must sometimes descend to lower
things and bear the burden of this corruptible life, albeit unwillingly and wearily. As long as you
wear a mortal body you will suffer weariness and heaviness of heart. You ought, therefore, to bewail
in the flesh the burden of the flesh which keeps you from giving yourself unceasingly to spiritual
exercises and divine contemplation.
In such condition, it is well for you to apply yourself to humble, outward works and to refresh
yourself in good deeds, to await with unshaken confidence My heavenly visitation, patiently to
bear your exile and dryness of mind until you are again visited by Me and freed of all anxieties.
For I will cause you to forget your labors and to enjoy inward quiet. I will spread before you the
open fields of the Scriptures, so that with an open heart you may begin to advance in the way of
My commandments. And you will say: the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared
with the future glory which shall be revealed to us.