Letter 1578. To Sister Marie-Suzanne Duret

Assistant at Draguignan. [Annecy, 1638.] Vive > Jésus!

My very dear Daughter,—Your letter is a great consolation tome. When God deigns to speak to a soul all creatures must cease to doso. And this favour I see is yours through the divine mercy. You must adhere to this practice of looking at God within you and it will absorb all others. Let Him act according to His good pleasure, so that whether He give you sweet or bitter, satisfaction or dissatisfaction, it may be all one to you. Give little thought to either, but only to Him, following faithfully and simply the light He will give you for your good in each event. Let Him act, and you will see how He will strip you of everything till there is nothing that you care for, save intercourse with Him. May His divine goodness keep you in this way even unto the utmost perfection of His holy love. Be joyous and brave, I beg of you, and you will experience how sweet God is. Pray for me, etc.