Come Always!

"If you offered Me your joys and your moments of recreation, I would send you few trials because it is only your union with Me that I am seeking, and as a rule you come to Me only when you are unhappy.
Then come—oh, come always."

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I read those words above in a book called Lui et Moi, translated into English as He and I.  The book contains interior conversations between our Lord and Gabrielle Bossis and speaks in various beautiful ways of that desire the Lord has for our love—the desire for intimacy with us, His poor creatures.

Some people seem to live charmed lives, as if the Lord is making all things work together for their good even in this life.  I wonder if this is because they already have given Him their hearts, becoming united with Him here below.

Yet even Job suffered much and he was certainly faithful.  Perhaps the Lord only allowed his sufferings, letting him be stripped of everything he owned, that he too might reach a greater union with his Maker.  That is after all what happened.  Rather than give in to the temptation to curse God for all the evil that seemed to be happening to him, he still blessed the name of the Lord.

In our own lives, I believe it is the same.  Whatever happens to us—good or ill—our Lord allows out of love—out of a desire for union.

All we need to do is come to Him, laying everything before Him like little children, whether it is our joys or our sorrows, our plans for the future or the struggles with past failures.  Always He is there waiting, desiring us more than we can ever desire Him.