THE WAY #20
"It is inevitable that you should feel the rub of other people's characters against your own. After all, you are not a gold coin that everyone likes.
Besides, without that friction produced by contact with others, how would you ever lose those corners, those edges and projections — the imperfections and defects — of your character, and acquire the smooth and regular finish, the firm flexibility of charity, of perfection?
If your character and the characters of those who live with you were soft and sweet like sponge cake you would never become a saint."
It's tough when the ones we love are difficult to live with. When mothers describe their daughters to me and tell me how exasperating they are my first response is, "I bet you were just like her when you were her age." Usually their eyes get big and they nod. This world is where we need to grow in virtue. There is nothing like family to force us to improve. Thank God for giving us lots of opportunities to improve.
posted by Leigh the Mom | 10:22 AM
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Hello Leigh!!!
I am Mireia Ferrer Castan. Do you remember me?. My husband Fernando studied at MIT almost twenty years ago. Browsing through the net I found this blog.
How is your family and all your children, and your grandchildren?. How is Bill? It is a long time since we met the last time in Rome, Piazza Navona, for the beatification of St. Josemaría in 1992. We couldn’t go to the canonization because our 9th children, Pepe, borned on October the third. Two years later, in 2004, borned Leopoldo, our youngest and the toy of the rest.
Many things have happened since we left Boston. Twenty years are a lot for a big family like ours!!!. The most important: we are very very happy.
Please write me, I would like to have your email address:
My email address:
mireiacastan@hotmail.com
Thank you. Mireia Castan.
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This is a great blog. So many thanks for putting it together.
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