and weakness as we are, let us take heart and let us in total confidence carry to Christ in our right hand and confess to Him our helplessness and our fragility. We will carry away more help than we deserve, if only we constantly push ourselves down into the depths of humility. Let all those coming to this marvelous, tough, and painful—though also easy—contest leap, as it were, into a fire, so that a non-material flame may take up residence within them. But let each one test himself, draw food and