(Statue of St. Teresa of Avila at her birthplace. She is shown contemplating the Infinite.)

We had talked a while back about meditating each day...taking some thought about God or the spiritual life, and taking the time to really dwell on it. The benefits of this daily practice are almost limitless.

"Let not, therefore, him, [or her 😇] who is of good will become over-anxious, because of the unsteadiness of his thoughts, but let him while he prays, peacefully do what he can, and persevere humbly and patiently in his prayer; for thus will he be most pleasing to God. Respecting this Our Lord once said to St. Gertrude, that when any one fixes his mind and his thoughts piously on God, in prayer, meditation or contemplation, he presents as it were before the throne of His Glory, a mirror of marvelous splendor, in which the Lord, the Giver of all Good, beholds with delight His own image. And when his ever-wandering thoughts or other hindrances make it difficult for him to do this, the more earnestly and patiently he labors the fairer and more resplendent does that mirror appear in the sight of the adorable Trinity and of all the Saints."

~ Consoling Revelations collected by the Ven. Benedictine Abbot Blosius (1506-1566)