Okay to be annoyed that God keeps asking little things of you, harder we try the worse we do, give me gentleness/affection that children show parents, embrace God & Mary with all your strength, suffer pinpricks, tell Lord you want forgiveness, seek consolation in God after breaking your sanctification, be manly > effeminate, prayer even without consolation can end sorrows, try to avoid distractions during prayer.

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from The Way (1934), by Josemaría Escrivá