I don't know what is happening to me. I have such immense inner sadness that I feel isolated from the whole world. Everything disgusts me and everything tires me. But yesterday finally, thank God, I was able to meditate and feel devotion and love – what the Lord has not given me even during Holy Communion for a while. These two months of suffering have become two months of heaven... I have sacrificed everything to Jesus and asked Him to grant me His cross... I have resolved to live as joyfully as possible on the outside.
(St. Teresa of Los Andes, 1900–1920, Diary 33, on September 13, 1917)
