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Aug 28/93

Feast of the assumption!

DAHLEN.

Boonsboro, Washington County
August 15th 93. Maryland

Dear Heart!

How nobly you are
bearing your heavy cross!
Thanks be to our precious Savior,
who has gone before us,
in the toilsome way.
He who, never loves us so tender
as when we suffer in unison
with His sufferings.
Saint Theresa, the wonderful
mystic Saint, understood this
Science of the Cross, so well,
that she even prayed, "let me
suffer, or let me die"
As we become spiritualized, we take
on His very likeness, and rise as