"When I see that the burden is beyond my strength, I do not consider or analyze it or probe into it, but I run like a child to the Heart of Jesus and say only one word to Him: "You can do all things." And then I keep silent, because I know that Jesus himself will intervene in the matter, and as for me, instead of tormenting myself, I use that time to love Him." St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, "Diary Divine Mercy in My Soul," 1033.
You can do all things!
There is such power in those words!
Behind those words is an act of faith.
What if we all had this faith?
If only we trusted in the Lord with this faith!
Too often we replace what God can do with what we will Him to do.
Sometimes we doubt if He even can or will and so we refuse to ever ask.
But the truth is that He can!
We do not know what He wills but we trust it is His will.
We trust too that He loves us and that through our faith we love Him in return.
Act of Faith
O my God, I firmly believe that you are one God in three divine Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I believe that your divine Son became man, died for our sins, and that he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe these and all the truths which the holy Catholic Church teaches, because you have revealed them, Who can neither deceive nor be deceived. Amen.
1033, Amen. Which reminds me, I still have a book to return to the Sisters when we gather again after the shutdown here!-- Faustina's Diary.
ReplyDeleteI have had the desire to open up St. Faustina's diary! Thanks for the confirmation that I should do that!
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