August 21
A few days ago I was thinking about what some say of gulls, small birds, which nest in the sea beach. They build their nests round and it is understood that sea water can not enter. At the top of the nest is an opening, which can receive the air. There gulls housed their young, they can safely swim and float on the waves without getting water or immersed. The air we breathe by opening counterbalances and balance, so that the small eddies never end up dumping the nest.
My dear children, how I wish that your hearts are such that, at the sides are closed, so that if the blows and the storms of the world, the flesh and the devil you surprised, fail to penetrate into; and no other opening than that of the sky, to suck and breathe our Lord Jesus.
And this nest, children, for whom would have if not for chicks of one who has done everything for love of God, led by divine and celestial inclinations? But while the gulls build their nests and chicks are still too tender to withstand the blows of the waves, God cares and has compassion on them, preventing the sea to immerse.
(January 18, 1918, the novices - Letters. IV, p. 366)
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