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Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; but only one thing is necessary.........

"How should you not give your whole heart to God, who loved you before you loved Him, and that with the tender love of a Father pitying His children, and knowing the frail clay and dust of which they are made? He sought us wandering in self-chosen paths, the paths of sin, He toiled after us as a shepherd wearying himself to find a lost sheep. Nor is He satisfied with seeking, but when He had found us, He took both us and our sorrows on His own shoulders--He was obedient to the death on the cross. We may truly say that He loved us to the death of the cross, and the measure of His love and His obedience is the same. When this love thoroughly fills a soul, it enjoys a true peace of conscience; it is content and happy, asking neither greatness nor fame nor pleasures--nothing, in short, which the lapse of time will sweep away and leave no trace behind. It seeks nothing except the will of God, and it watches continually in blessed expectation of the Bridegroom." Fenelon

O for grace......