Dec 01, 2004 21:15
"How the poor heart is afflicted when, as though abondoned by love, she looks everywhere, and does not find it as it seems to her. She does not find it in the exterior senses...nor in the imagination...nor in the understanding; and although, at last she finds in the summit and supreme point of the spirit where the divine love resides, still she does not recognize it is what it is, for the greatness of the distress and darkness prevents her from experiencing its sweetness...But what can the soul in this case do?...She...has only the power to let herself die in the hands of the will of God."
-Francis DeSales