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46we can present before God represents years of tension and suffering. Even a little virtue is a very great thing! Great virtue is immeasurable! The growthto which God calls us exceeds all of nature. We are supposed to leave nature behind, and reach out for something which is beyond our reach. St. Augustine says that God commandsus to seek that which is impossible. It is impossible for man, but not for God. We have to be constantly reaching out for that and it is always linked to this Mystery of the Cross. Just like theIncarnation there are two natures, divine and human nature, unitedin one person, a Divine Person, theSecondPerson of the Blessed Trinity. So also is everyone in grace a newincarnation, a new creation. If anyoneis in Christ, he is a new creature. We again have two natures united in oneperson. St. Peter says, %u201cAre you not aware that you are partakers of the divine nature?%u201d We, too, in a similitudeof Christ have two natures. Christ ispersonally God and we are not. We are personally a creature. The path of Christ must also be our path, that thesenatures be eternalized and made one. Grace perfects nature. It is true. Like nuclear fusion makes two things to be one, step by step, Grace takes over our whole being and makes all of nature subject to the Will of God. If we could only understand the great things that God is calling us to, it wouldbe so much easier to reach forwardand seek the goal. It is only reasonable that, when we come up to an obstacle, we look around and ask, %u201cIs thereanother way around?%u201d%u201cCan I get aheadsome other way?%u201dThat is prudence. Or we must ask, %u201cIs this goal really worth the great pain?%u201d And, of course, it is! There is only one path to Life. Over this mountain of our own Golgotha, we must pass. St. T%u00e9r%u00e8se of Lisieux said, %u201cTrue love feeds upon sacrifice and the more a soul denies itself the satisfactions of nature, the more its affections becomedisinterested.%u201d Remember, if God gaveus the whole universe with all thetreasures it contains, it could not be compared to the very lightest suffering.All the treasures of the world are nothing next to suffering. St. Teresa of Avila had a friend who was a Sister and they agreed that whichever one of them was first called out of life, andwent to Heaven, would ask God to permit them to return and tell theother how her state was. The other Sister died first and, about a weeklater, appeared to St. Teresa of Avila in the state of glory. As best as she could, she explained to Teresa what her happiness and beatitude were, but then she told St. Teresa that she would be willing to return to the earth and suffer every possible cross until the end of the world for the increase in glory which is received by praying a single Hail Mary!