Practical Devotion of the Day: How to Endure Setbacks

1. You need to be prepared for it. Human life down here is not rest, but continuous battle, militia. As for the flower of the field that blooms on the dawn, but does not know what awaits it during the day, so it is for us. How many unforeseen events hit us hour by hour, how many disappointments, how many thorns, how many shocks, how many afflictions and mortifications! The prudent soul prepares itself in the morning, places itself in the hands of God and asks him to help it. Do it too while you pray, and you will pray more heartily.

2. It takes courage to endure. The sensitive heart strongly feels the opposition, and it is natural; Jesus too, in seeing the bitter cup before him, suffered agony pain, and he begged the Father to spare him if it were possible; but letting ourselves be disheartened, worried, murmured against God and the men who contradict us, is perfectly useless, even harmful. It is foolishness according to reason, but more is mistrust according to the Faith! Courage and prayer.

3. We weave a crown with them. The opposition is a continuous stimulus to the practice of patience. In them we have a continuous means of overcoming self-love and our taste; in their multiplicity we have a thousand occasions to attest our fidelity to God; bearing them all for his love, they become so many roses for heaven. Do not be dismayed by the difficulty, grace is with you to help you. Think about it seriously ...

PRACTICE. - Today he endures everything calmly for love of God; three Salve Regina to Mary.