Letter 40. To a Married Lady

April 3, i6ll.

.... Live wholly to God, my dear daughter, and since you are obliged to be much in society, strive to make yourself useful to your neighbours by the means I have often set before you. Do not imagine that our Lord is any ferther fi:om you amid the weariness and temptation of your present position, than He would be were you enjoying a calm and peaceful life. No, my very dear daughter, it is not a peaceful life which brings Him into our hearts — ^but the fidelity with which we love Him; not the conscious sense we have of His sweetness, but our ready consent to His most Holy Will. It is better that It should be fulfilled in us, than that we should fulfil our will in Him.

ni