The Little Deaths

“What is true of death is true of all the little deaths that precede it. God is preparing us for a far greater life, a greater happiness. He takes our toys from us when it is time to grow up and play with the jewels of truth and goodness and beauty. He takes our comforts from us when it is time to grow up and learn to forget ourselves and our comforts and to find far deeper joy in loving other people and to find far greater joy in that than we could ever find in our own comforts. He takes from us our very hearts’ desires so that we can give our hearts away, for giving away your heart is the only way to find it. The only whole heart is one that has been first broken and then healed. He takes from us all the things we love so that we can love Him alone and then get all our other loves back, transformed and perfected, in the only form in which they can ever be ours forever...”

~Peter Kreeft