A young girl, in one of those moments when the heart seems to
overflow with devotion, wrote thus in her journal:--"If
I dared, I would ask God why I am placed in the world; what
have I to do? I know not; my days are idly spent, and I do not
even regret them. ...If I might but do some good to myself,
or another, if only for the short space of a minute each day!"
A
few days later, when in a calmer mood she reread these lines,
she added, "Why nothing is easier! I have but to give
a cup of cold water to one of Christ's little ones."
Yes,
even so small a gift as that, but given in God's Name, may be
of service, and gives you the right to hope for a reward in
heaven. Even less than that: a word of advice; something lent
to another; a little vexation patiently borne; a prayer for
a friend, offered to God; the fault or thoughtlessness of another
repaired without his knowledge; God will recompense it all a
thousand-fold!
