"Our freedom always has this marvelous power to make what
is taken from us—by life, events, or other people—into something offered.
Externally there is no visible difference, but internally everything is
transfigured: fate into free choice, constraint into love, loss into
fruitfulness. Human freedom is of absolutely unheard-of greatness. It does not
confer the power to change everything, but it does empower us to give a meaning
to everything, even meaningless things; and that is much better. We are not
always masters of the unfolding of our lives, but we can always be masters of
the meaning we give them. Our freedom can transform any event in our lives into
an expression of love, abandonment, trust, hope, and offering."
— Fr. Jacques
Philippe, Interior Freedom, p. 58
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