A young girl, in one of those moments when the heart seems to overflow with devotion, wrote thus in her journal:--"If I dared, I would ask God why I am placed in the world; what have I to do? I know not; my days are idly spent, and I do not even regret them. ...If I might but do some good to myself, or another, if only for the short space of a minute each day!"

A few days later, when in a calmer mood she reread these lines, she added, "Why nothing is easier! I have but to give a cup of cold water to one of Christ's little ones."

Yes, even so small a gift as that, but given in God's Name, may be of service, and gives you the right to hope for a reward in heaven. Even less than that: a word of advice; something lent to another; a little vexation patiently borne; a prayer for a friend, offered to God; the fault or thoughtlessness of another repaired without his knowledge; God will recompense it all a thousand-fold!