MARCH 29
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean,
do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and al-
ways rise up bravely from a fall. I’m glad that you make
daily a new beginning; there is no better means of progress
in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh.
—FRANCIS DE SALESOne of the things that is so hard about recovering from grief
is that it Takes So Long. And we get discouraged, not only
from the continuing presence of the grief, but because of our
own inability to handle it better. Just when we think we are
making progress—wham, it sweeps over us and seems new
again.
Nowhere more than here is it important to be patient with
ourselves, not let ourselves be weighed down by the discour-
agements of yesterday. Each day is a new day, a fresh begin-
ning.
As I stand on the threshold of this day, I leave behind me the cares
and anxieties of yesterday.