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Take up your cross daily

March 19

“But trust does not mean believing that God will spare us from suffering… To trust God means that we must know that whatever comes to us comes from His hand… Christ says: ‘Take no thought of tomorrow.’ He also says: ‘take up your cross daily.’ There is no need, in accepting sorrow, to look ahead, to imagine tomorrow, to ask for more or less, but just as we receive our joy day by day, so can we receive our sorrow day by day, and it will be measured day by day, by the love of God and our own littleness…”

-Caryll Houselander

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Even in the busiest day

March 18

“There should be, even in the busiest day, a few moments when we can close our eyes and let God possess us. He is always present, always giving us life, always round us and in us, like the air we breathe; there should be moments at least when we become more conscious of His presence; when we become conscious of His presence; when we become conscious of it as the only reality, the only thing that will last forever…”

-Caryll Houselander

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Guard against self-pity

March 17

“Trivial suffering is not trivial in its effects; it has tremendous power for good and tremendous power for evil; it can be destructive, and warp and sour our personality. It is almost always trivial suffering which, when it is not deliberately sanctified, results in the most lethal disease of the human character, self-pity.”

-Caryll Houselander

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