Rightly considered, kindness is the grand cause of God in the world. Where it is natural, it must forthwith be supernaturalized. Where it is not natural, it must be supernaturally planted. What is our life? It is a mission to go into every corner it can reach, and reconquer for God's beatitude His unhappy world back to Him. It is a devotion of ourselves to the bliss of the Divine Life by the beautiful apostolate of kindness.
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LET us conclude. We have been speaking of kindness. Perhaps we might better have called it the spirit of Jesus. What an amulet we should find it in our passage through life if we would say to ourselves two or three times a day these soft words of Scripture: "My spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb " (Ecclus. xxiv. 27).
16.— Seek the Things Above.
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"Seek the things that are above"
An ideal life would be so to live as to be "an inspiration, strength, and blessingto those whose lives are touched by ours." Such was our dear Lady's life task. To lead others onward, upward, heavenward, was her earnest joy and endeavor. Such should be also the noble aim of her true children.
How can we accomplish this superhuman task? By living for the things above. If we endeavor to see God's hand in all that happens, and to live as "pilgrims and strangers" that seek a country, then out lives, though exteriorly simple and commonplace, will be as beacon lights guiding souls to that blessed region we call "Home,"
