You are suffering! Listen: 'His' Heart is not smaller than ours.--You are suffering? There is good in suffering. (The Way, 230)
I warn you that great penances are also compatible with great falls, which are brought about by pride. On the other hand, if you continually wish to please God in the little battles that go on inside you — a smile, for example, when you don't feel like smiling; and I assure you that a smile is sometimes more difficult than an hour's worth of cilice — then there is …