What is the correct application

May 30

Tell me this: light and discover the objects is proper sunlight or darkness is proper? I leave you to take out the correct application. God alone is His grace, God alone is the supreme sun, and all other or they are nothing or, if so, what are for him, God only, say, with his grace can illuminate the soul and show you what it is . And the more the soul knows its misery and unworthiness before God, the most notable is the grace that illuminates to know.

I understand that the discovery of one's misery at the hands of the divine sun, at first a cause for sadness and sorrow, grief and terror, for the poor soul that is illuminated in a similar way, but take comfort in the sweet Lord, because when this divine sun has warmed their field burning rays of your spirit, will blunt new plants, which in time will choice fruits, apples ever seen.



(March 4, 1915, to Raffaelina Cerase - Letters. II, p. 368)