"When I noticed Celine showing affection for one of her teachers, I wanted to imitate her, but not knowing how to win the good graces of creatures, I was unable to succeed. O blessed ignorance! which has helped me avoid great evils! How can I thank Jesus for making me find 'only bitterness in earth's friendships!' With a heart such as mine, I would have allowed myself to be taken and my wings to be clipped, and then how would I have been able to 'fly and be at rest?' How can a heart given over to the affection of creatures be intimately united with God? I feel this is not possible. Without having drunk the poisoned cup of a too ardent love of creatures, I feel I cannot be mistaken."
Too true! Too often I find myself yearning after the affections of my peers, my younger friends, my fellow students. Would that I would put such energy and effort into desiring God as much!
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