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Listen to your heart: WHO Lives There? (first part)

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Of all the places she wanted to be,  it was right here on my chest  that she found rest... ------------ It was the little sage's turn to visit me this weekend. She wasn't used to be carried around but I did... I held her several minutes each day to understand her valuable lessons... My infant Jesus a gift from graziealcielo "As I see it,  we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves  unless  we seek to know God: let us think of His greatness and then come back to our own baseness; by looking at His purity we shall see our foulness; by meditating upon His humility, we shall see how far we are from being humble." ~ S. Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle. Translated and edited by E. Allison Peers. (NY:Doubleday, 1989)38. As a young nun, we were taught to contemplate the Infant Jesus so often. I have only come to know how by holding a real infant in my arms... It just tells me to ' receiv...