Our Treasure

The spiritual man must learn to leave himself and all other things for the love of God. He must possess nothing with any tenacious affection of heart. He must remember that not only bad things, but even those that are good, may become hindrances if they are loved or sought inordinately...He must in everything give up his own self-will, resigning it to God, wholly pouring it forth into God and making it perfectly one with God's will...In everything he must seek God and his honor and will, so that to his very prayers, and pious desires he must join a humble self-denial and resignation of himself, desiring that not his own, but God's will should be done. All things that happen to him he must refer to the divine will, and take them just as they are from the hand of the Lord...In prosperity as well as adversity, in losses, injuries, calumnies, reproaches, scornful insults or contempt, in pains of body and anxiety and heaviness of heart, in grief and in interior desolation and woe...he must praise God, believing that he both can and will advance his salvation by all these things. Blosius The Venerable (1566)
taken from Magnificat, June 2010