My God, what consolation shall we derive from the celestial conversation
that we shall hold one with another! There, our good angels will
afford us a consolation greater than can be told or conceived, when they
will introduce themselves to us, and represent to us so lovingly the
care they had of our salvation during the course of our mortal life,
reminding us of the holy inspirations which they brought us, as a sacred
milk which they had drawn from the bosom of divine beauty, to gain us
to the pursuit of those divine sweetnesses in which we shall then
rejoice. "Do you not remember, " they will say to us, "such an
inspiration that I brought you at such a time, reading such a book,
listening to such a sermon, looking on such an image, as happened to St.
Mary of Egypt, an inspiration that incited you to be converted to Our
Lord, and was the ground of your predestination?" O God, will not our
hearts be then plunged in inutterable happiness?
--St. Francis de Sales, Consoling Thoughts
