Melissa Thorpe

This is one of my favorite, Maxims of Sisters of St. Joseph: Gentleness – Live in peace and interior gentleness always and show it outwardly by acting without haste of overeagerness. Even suffer what you have to suffer peacefully…and in loving acceptance of all the plans of his divine will…Furthermore, never consider events, however trying, as obstacles but as very beneficial and necessary to living your life: if you view them as the effects of the very gentle, very loving Providence of God…then you will love them tenderly and receive them willingly. Maxim VII