There are other ways in which we express our personal love for God, and this note explores one of those ways, namely, what Saint Francis de Sales calls the love of complacency (what I have called resting in God). This mode of love is called by Saint Francis de Sales the love of condolence. If you have read Father Michael Gaitley’s well-regarded book, Consoling the Heart of Jesus, then you are keenly aware that Father Gailtley emphasizes in that book a special mode of love which involves consoling Jesus and sharing in His sorrow. Faber, The Creator and the Creature, p.343).
O that the day were come when we shall be securely at His Feet forever!” (F.W. God is our Last End as well as our First Cause. All things that find us wandering lead us home again to the Bosom of the Eternal Father…. All things teach us this beautiful truth. They can anchor nowhere save in the capacious harbor of HIS Infinite perfections. Neither spirit of angel nor soul of man can rest short of God. (John 13:23: “Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved”)
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