Persevering Paige

 I was sitting with my grandma at her house and we were talking about a loss in my life that has been very painful, as well as a new journey I have started for healing with that. A few weeks ago, I had asked my grandma if she had a Bible that I could have since I had recently misplaced mine that I was gifted in sixth grade. After we had spent about forty-five minutes talking, my grandma said, “Oh and I have that Bible to give you, Father insisted you have this one.” I opened the Bible and closed it and then opened it again. The second time I opened it, there was this little medal piece stuck in it on the exact page I had opened it to, so stuck that it had left an indent in the book. I picked it up and read it. It was a Padre Pio quote that read, “How unbearable is pain when suffered far from the cross, but how sweet and bearable it becomes when it is offered close to the cross of Jesus. May Jesus comfort you in all your afflictions. May He sustain you in dangers, watch over you always with His grace, and indicate the safe path that leads you to eternal salvation. And may He render you always dearer to His Divine Heart and always more worthy of Paradise.”~Padre Pio It is moments such as that in my life, and there are many, that prove to me that God speaks to me, and to all of us. I believe it was a reminder from Him to keep my heart open to uniting my crosses with the cross of Christ, and more specifically, that He wanted me to know that He has plans to help heal me from this particular loss I was talking to my grandma about. And when the Lord sends me a sign, in God I trust without a fear! 

I just wanted to share this story on as many platforms of mine as possible, because it is powerful. I just want each of you who read this to meditate on that first part up until the line:  “How unbearable is pain when suffered far from the cross, but how sweet and bearable it becomes when it is offered close to the cross of Jesus.” 

How powerful!