Saint Therese of Lisieux once wrote her sister Celine that our Lord wants us not to love him for his gifts -- but for himself:
"Jesus hides Himself; He wraps Himself in darkness. Jesus is a hidden treasure... and the world loves what sparkles... To find a hidden thing, one must hide oneself... Ah, let us remain then very far from all that sparkles, let us love our littleness, let us love to feel nothing, then we shall be poor in spirit..."
[Two 19th-century Russian paintings: Job and his friends; the funeral of the first-born].
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