Thank you for the beautiful comforting letter from the fourteenth. Keep looking at the Most Sacred Heart. Why be afraid, whether it will be tuberculosis or not? You are His, and that is His gift for you, His bride. (…) It is not the glorified Jesus or Jesus in the manger, but on the Cross: alone, naked, bleeding, suffering, dying on the Cross.
Smile. Smile at the Hand that inflicts the wound on you. Kiss the Hand that nails you to the Cross. Just as you do not believe that it is tuberculosis, let them do everything they want to do with you. Be like a lamb, smile at everyone.
Love Jesus and may your heart always be smiling for Him. All those disturbing thoughts come from the devil - ignore them all.
(Mother Teresa, letter to the co-sister)
