Mother Superior, I remember the promise I made to send you some thoughts about the poverty of Jesus Christ. There is a close connection between poverty and death. One serves as a preparation for the other because someone truly poor is always prepared for death having nothing that holds him back. That is why God gave me the grace to join them together and to read each day one sentence about poverty and one about death. This thought is enough to assure you that I think of my promise to you but it was just a quick thought and I will need more time and other circumstances to be able to write more completely on the subject. If God wishes that I accomplish it, he will give me in the future enough freedom to do it.
I am pleased that N. has yielded herself to your guidance without waiting for mine. She needs only this simple submission to what you will tell her in the future without waiting for me or for others. We must do what we can for souls without ever becoming discouraged. We should pray for them even more when it seems to us that we should talk to them less. The election of a soul is a marvelous thing that comes completely from God without the chosen soul having contributed anything to its election. And yet it is the unique source, that is as eternal as God, for all the good that appears in a soul during its life.
Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill
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