From My Reading....

I'm really enjoying an old, relatively unknown book from the last century, available at no charge for download here - Spiritual Progress. Here's a juicy tidbit:

(sunrise over Galway Bay)

"Stay and consider. In Heaven, and in the mind of God, there is an ideal for thee. It is thy life's story written beforehand in accordance with the graces that had been laid up for thee. What beauty, and loftiness, and nobility of soul! What love for God! What abundant consolations! What inward peace! But to realize this ideal, efforts were required. By progressive degrees, thy nature would have been freed from its defects, thy will would have become resolute and energetic, thy conscience straightforward and tender, and thy heart would have been seized with the love of things eternal. And at times hast thou not had a glimpse of these things? And on seeing them, hast thou not aspired to a more perfect life?"