Ave Maria Meditations
You seem to be troubled that you cannot love God when trials come and all is darkness. But that is just the moment when you love Him most and prove your love the best. If only, when you are in desolation and dryness, you force yourself to utter an act of love or an oblation of yourself without a particle of feeling, you make an offering which is of surpassing value in His eyes and most pleasing to His Sacred Heart.
A dry act of love is a real act of love, since it is all for Jesus and nothing for self. Therefore, welcome the hard black days as a real harvest time.
The Servant of God Fr. Willie Doyle
