Suffering with Smiles

I Never want to get angry
Or bitter 
Because everything that 
Happens to me 
If I choose to live in the state of grace
Happens for the opportunity of sainthood 
Pain and sorrow 
Allows us to give offering 
Events that didn’t go our way 
Allows us to deny our fleshy desires 
I look back and smile 
Happiness overwhelms me 
In the midst of no worldly gain 
All my tears
Are collected up in heaven 
All my prayers 
Remain in a bundle 
The abundance still awaits 
Whether it’s on this earth or not
Whether my prayers are answered 
I know everything that happened 
Calls me to be a great saint 
If I react in virtue 
And acceptance 
I Accept my burdens 
My past 
My rejections 
My embarrassments 
My humiliations 
And persecutions 
Cause you can’t be a saint 
Without suffering   
I’m aiming at mastering 
The virtue of mortification
Where smiling takes place in suffering