David Given Schwarm

God does not always spare the good from grief. The Father spared not the Son, and the Son spared not the mother.

Blessed finally are the poor in spirit intellectually. Blessed are the humble, and the teachable who like the Shepherds know they know nothing, or like the Wise Men who know they do not know everything.

Let those souls who think their work has no value recognize that by fulfilling their insignificant task out of a love of God, those tasks assume a supernatural worth. The aged who bear the taunts of the young, the sick crucified to their beds, the ignorant immigrant in the steel mill, the street cleaner and…