Sunday, June 9 : Saint Francis de Sales

We must consider that there is no vocation that does not have its troubles, its bitterness and aversions, and, which is more – if not those who are fully resigned in the will of God – everyone would likely exchange your condition for that of others: those who are bishops would like to be not; Those who are married would like to be not, and those who are not would like it so. Where do these general fretful spirits come from, if not from a certain displeasure that we have at constraint, and a malignancy of mind that makes us think that everyone is better off than us? But it is all one: anyone who is not fully resigned, that he turns from side to side, he will never have rest. Those who have a fever are never content, they do not stay a quarter of an hour in a bed they would like to be in another; It’s not the fault of the bed, but it’s the fever that torments them everywhere. A person who does not have the fever for his own will is satisfied with everything; As long as God is served, she does not care in what quality God uses her: as long as she does the divine will, all is equal to her. But that’s not all. You must not only want to do the will of God, but to be devoted, you must do it with pleasure. (…) “I would like this and that; I would be better here and there”: these are temptations. Our Lord knows what he is doing: let’s do what he wants, let’s stay where he put us.
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