Little Deaths

Life requires countless "little" death - occasions when we are given the chance to say no to self and yes to God.

We die in order to live.

It takes faith to believe this, as it takes faith for a farmer to plant a seed. It takes faith to live by it, faith to act on it, faith to keep looking at the joyful end of it all. A failure of faith here leads certainly to resentment and then to depression.

(from Passion & Purity)