Short and Sweet from The Master

Garrigou-Lagrange emphasizes in his text on Providence, the mystery of seeing things as God sees all things. I have used on this blog the phrase, “putting on the Mind of Christ” of St. Paul to say something similar. Here is Garrigou-Lagrange: “In the spirit of faith and by the dim light it sheds let us accustom ourselves gradually to see all things in God. Let us see in the pleasant events of our life the token of God’s goodness, and also in the painful and unexpected afflictions a call to a higher life, as being so many graces sent for our purification and therefore often more to be prized than consolations. St. Peter crucified was nearer to God than on Thabor.”

“By thus accustoming ourselves to live by faith and the gift of wisdom we shall become every day better fitted to enter into that knowledge which is to be ours at the end of our journey through life. We shall then see God face to face, and in Him all that emanates from Him, especially those things we have loved on earth with a supernatural love. St. Francis and St. Dominic thus behold in God the destinies of their orders, and a Christian mother on entering heaven sees in Him the spiritual needs of the son she has left on earth and the prayers she must offer up for him.”

In Providence, in the Wisdom of God, is our peace, as the Dominican points out. We may not feel joy on this earth, but we shall experience God’s peace “which comes from order through union with God.”