Gifts

(St. Therese of Lisieux - found here)

“I am but a weak and helpless child, yet it is my very weakness which makes me dare to offer myself, O Jesus, as victim to Thy Love.”

~St. Therese of Lisieux

“. . . She rested there for a while, trusting that in the emptiness is the true listening.

He said nothing, merely smiled at her with the invisible radiance of his love. Acknowledging that everything—everything—was his gift, she smiled back.

‘O my Lord,’ her heart said at last, ‘you know how small my love is! Io, how quickly I would abandon you, how easily I am confused and afraid. Ay, ay, my love is a tiny thing. How can I give you the love that your great heart deserves when I am so poor! Even so, this I give, this little scrap which is all of me.’”

~Michael O’Brien (from A Cry of Stone)