We are all inclined to overlook our own importance in God's sight. So dearly does He love us, so anxious is He that we should attain our end, that we should succeed in life, that He has heaped around us all kinds of means and helps.

All that is lovely and beautiful in the world is intended by Almighty God to help me on my road to Heaven, to remind me of Him and of His infinite beauty. God cares more for me than all the material universe together, all irrational creatures. I can give Him more glory by one act of love than they can by all their natural perfections.

God has also given me my parents, companions, superiors, to assist me in serving Him. They were all created for me; even those who cause me pain are in God's design to be sources of merit and even of happiness to me. They may be my best friends. If, for instance, I am patient towards those who are trying my patience, kind towards those who treat me unkindly, I derive from them a solid gain: they help me on the way to Heaven.

All the various circumstances of my life are moreover ordained by Almighty God to aid me in serving and praising Him as He wishes. If they are pleasant, they must teach me gratitude; if painful, resignation. Even if they are a source of temptation to me, by fighting bravely against the temptation, I can gain great merit before God.

Pray for grace to carry out God's intentions by using rightly all the circumstances around you.