I would like Jesus to be your close friend, in whom you could place your weary heart full of suffering. Who could measure the size and amount of worries that weigh you down, more than our Lord, who penetrates to the depths and knows how to heal the wounds with a loving hand, the depth of which you do not even know yourself? Oh, father, how your life would change if you often approached him as a friend…
(Teresa of Los Andes, letter to her father, November 26, 1919)