Devotion to the Saints: the thought of Padre Pio today November 24th

The real reason why you can't always do your meditations well, I find it in this and I'm not mistaken.
You come to meditate with a certain kind of alteration, combined with a great anxiety, to find some object that can make your spirit happy and consoled; and this is enough to make you never find what you are looking for and do not place your mind in the truth you meditate.
My daughter, know that when one searches in a hurry and greedily for a lost thing, he will touch it with his hands, he will see it with his eyes a hundred times, and he will never notice it.
From this vain and useless anxiety, nothing can arise but a great tiredness of spirit and impossibility of mind, to stop on the object that keeps in mind; and from this, then, as from its own cause, a certain coldness and stupidity of the soul specifically in the affective part.
I know of no other remedy in this regard other than this: to get out of this anxiety, because it is one of the greatest traitors that true virtue and firm devotion can ever have; he pretends to warm up when he does well, but he does it only to cool down and makes us run to make us stumble.

A gentleman from Foggia was sixty-two years old in 1919 and walked supporting himself with two sticks. He had broken his legs when he fell from the buggy and the doctors could not heal him. After confessing, Padre Pio said to him: "Get up and go, you have to throw these sticks." The man obeyed everyone's wonder.

A sensational event that stirred up the whole Foggia area happened to man in 1919. The man at that time was only fourteen. At four years of age, suffering from typhus, he had fallen victim to a form of rickets that had deformed his body causing him two showy humps. One day Padre Pio confessed it and then touched it with his stigmatized hands and the boy got up from the kneeler as straight as he had never been.