When we accept as good everything that God wants, let us not accept it with dull resignation. Christ was and is one of us, except for sin. He was not and is not cold and unfeeling. Christ was not a Stoic; he was human. He wanted our poor happiness to also be his happiness. He considered it beautiful that he was loved by his mother and friends. He wanted to experience human worries, life’s trials, hopes, and disappointments. He suffered and was not ashamed of suffering; he was not ashamed to show his suffering. He cried and did not hide that he was crying. He felt anxiety about suffering and death. All his friends could see that he suffered and was afraid. It is not our poor suffering body, but the depth of the soul that accepts God’s will. In the deepest innermost self, in the most secret “I,” where our faith resides, where our love is directed towards Christ, there we accept God’s will.
(Fr. Albert Peyriguere /1883–1959/, correspondence, letter from January 16, 1954)
