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"Two ...I will be resigned and ready to do the divine will by desiring nothing, by refusing nothing, and I will be equally happy with his every will.

I will strip myself of everything by a complete abandonment of myself to God.  I will leave the care of myself entirely to him.  He knows what I need and I do not know.  Therefore, I shall accept with equal resignation both light and darkness, consolation and calamities and crosses, suffering and joy.  I will praise him in everything and for  everything.  Above all, I will bless that hand which scourges me, as I put my total trust in him.

And if sometimes he will grace me with his presence, either with just its effects or by the continual practice of it, I will never attach myself to the delights of the spirit.  Neither will I afflict myself through fear of being deprived of it, but I will be most ready for the pain of his abandonment which I deserve.  I will always give him the gift of my pure and naked will, by offering a crucified and dead soul to Jesus, crucified and dead.  I do this because it pleases him that I return to darkness and agony when he thus wills it, with a happy and resigned spirit.  I ask him to let me say, “After the darkness I hope for light”  My Jesus, I adore you.  I am dying by not dying.  Oh, what a holy death!  What agony!..." Continue...