Decisions

“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are … it is our choices.”
– Dumbledore
Good decisions
The devil

“I know someone will ask me, ‘Do you really mean, at this time of day, to re-introduce our old friend the devil—hoofs and horns and all?’ Well, what the time of day has to do with it I do not know. And I am not particular about the hoofs and horns.” CS Lewis
Depictions of the devil
Intimacy

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.” – Evening Solace (poem) Charlotte Bronte
The need for vulnerability
Setbacks

“Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.” St. Ignatius of Loyola
Ups and downs
Close to Jesus?

“To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life plan.” St. Carlo Acutis