An Answer from St. Therese April 13, 2010
Do you think she’s out there?
Yes.
I know she’s out there. I’ve seen her.
She’s beautiful.
But she does not worry as much as you do.
Sure, she wonders.
She wonders about what it’ll be like
that first time the two of you meet.
The first time each of you beholds the other’s face.
She wonders.
But she does not worry.
She trusts.
Her trust runs through her.
It forms the bedrock, the foundation of her faith.
She prays for you often,
asking that in small part,
your sufferings might be lessened.
That this seemingly interminable waiting
before the hour of your meeting
might cultivate within you patience.
She knows you not
and yet loves you.
And prays for you.
If she could tell you anything now,
it would be
not to be anxious
and not to be afraid.
Her trust is deeper than yours.
Whereas your faith is intellectual, hers is emotional.
It’s something she knows, she feels
in the very core of her being.
Where you process things through your mind and then feel them in your heart,
for her, she intuits, she knows
she’s grounded in her faith, in her trust.
Do not worry.
You know intellectually that God
has created the two of you for each other.
That he foresaw the hour of your meeting and
crafted each of you, finely, for the other.
That the two of you might lead each other to him,
and through your children,
raise a new generation to know and love him.
This is a calling rarely heeded today.
But trust.
Do not worry.
She awaits you with a faith stronger than your own,
and seeks to lend you her strength.
She prays for you, that you might endure until the hour of your meeting.
And she loves you, though she knows you not.
Be strong for her.
Do not worry.
Place your trust in God’s hands.
Follow her example.
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