Finding Strength

This extract from Saint Faustina really encourages and inspires me.In my previous post,my family situation is still in pretty bad shape and I ask for all to pray for my family.It involves sacrifices and getting out of comfort zones for my dad and for my mother,healing and restoration in her heart and soul to take place.

"Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which lends value to our actions.And the purer our love becomes,the less there will be within us the flames of suffering to feed upon,and the suffering will cease to be a suffering for us;it will become a delight!"

Wow..when i read that..i thought."wah,insane!"how can suffering ever be joy?Sometimes i really wonder why does God give me such situation?I am close to you and how come you cant bless my family,friends and work?Why do you constantly want to test me?And i continued reading the extract..

"For it is precisely when I suffer much that my joy is greater,and when I suffer less,my joy also is less.When we suffer much we have a great chance to show God that we love Him;but when we suffer little we have less occasion to show God our love;and when we do not suffer at all,our love is then neither great nor pure.By grace of God,we can attain a point where suffering will become delight to us,for love can work such things in pure souls."

You have searched me and you know me, Lord.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O LORD, you know the whole of it.
Behind me and before, you hem me in
and rest your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
too lofty for me to attain.
Ps:139