Monday Musings - Turn You Head To Look at Him

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"If you are experiencing trials or are sad...behold Him burdened with the cross...He will look at you with those eyes so beautiful and compassionate, filled with tears; He will forget His sorrows so as to console you in yours, merely because you yourselves go to Him to be consoled, and you turn your head to look at Him."

(St. Teresa of Avila from Interior Castle)

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