Behold the image of God’s grace: even so does it flow very gently into hearts.

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Saint Frances, beholding a pleasant brook by whose side she had knelt to pray, was ravished in ecstasy, and repeated these words several times: Behold the image of God’s grace: even so does it flow very gently into hearts.

Source Introduction to the Devout Life, Chapter xiii (37), §6 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Frances of Rome saw in a simple brook the image of God’s grace, which enters hearts without noise, very gently, like flowing water. Today, pause before some flowing water (a tap, the rain, a river) and think of the small sweetnesses quietly received in your day.

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