So Your Efforts Didn't Turn Out Perfectly--So?

Saint Pio continues to love and to pray for and to help his "spiritual children." You, my dear friend, are a "spiritual child" of God, so that makes you a spiritual child of Saint Padre Pio, too, since he works for Jesus, even now from Heaven. St. Pio always said he would do more for you after he reached Heaven than he could on earth, so always feel free to ask him to intercede for you with Jesus. He will be so kind and good, as always, and he will help you.

Saint Padre Pio had a way of sharing his very heart and soul with his spiritual children. For example, here he says to you, his spiritual child, "You must not be discouraged or let yourself become dejected if your actions have not succeeded as perfectly as you intended. What do you expect? We are made of clay, and not every soil yields the fruits expected by the one who tills it. But let us always humble ourselves and acknowledge that we are nothing if we lack the Divine Assistance. To be worried because something we have done has not turned out in accordance with our pure intention shows a lack of humility. . . . Rejoice in the Lord, even though you feel oppressed by many sufferings. Rejoice, for Jesus is with you. . . ." Amen, dear friend!

(St. Padre Pio Letters, Volume 2, pages 290 and 303)