Meditate with St. Josemaría
“Rest in your divine filiation. God is a Father — your Father! — full of warmth and infinite love. Call him ‘Father’ frequently, and tell him, when you are alone, that you love him — that you love him very much! — and that you feel proud and strong because you are his son or daughter” (The Forge, no. 331).
“Cheerfulness is a necessary consequence of our divine filiation, of knowing that our Father God loves us with preferential love, that he welcomes us, helps us and forgives us. Remember this and never forget it: even if it should sometimes seem that everything is collapsing, nothing is collapsing at all, because God doesn’t lose battles.”
Excerpts from ‘God loves you more than you can know’ (Dios te quiere y tu no lo sabes)
by Tomas Trigo
Ground your identity in being a beloved daughter of God
Cast your care upon the Lord
The Psalmist asks God for help in the face of his enemies: "My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me" (Ps 55:4-5). And this is the response he gets: "Cast your care upon the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be shaken" (Ps 55:22).
It can happen that, despite everything, we feel fear. But that fear will disappear if we follow God's advice: to leave our fear in His hands, to trust in Him, to hold onto His Fatherly arm. And peace will return! "When I am afraid, I put my trust in You. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?" (Ps 56:3-4).
I am thinking now of the fears that sometimes overwhelm us when we have to proclaim the fact that we are Christians to other people, showing who we are: children of God. In an anti-Christian environment, this is sometimes difficult, and we may be afraid of what others will say or think about us. We may fear rejection, being pushed aside, or being left alone. God will give us His strength to swim against the current, to be faithful to the truth, and not to betray the faith. "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength" (Is 30:15).
Help me, Lord, to recognise my fears, that I am weak and vulnerable. Only by trusting in You will I manage to overcome the fear of everything that causes me suffering. In Your arms, I will find peace.
Trust in God and good humour
Trust in God is the key to good humour. The causes of bad humour are usually worries, anxieties, and problems we can’t solve because they produce restlessness, tension, and a lack of peace within us. If we manage to surrender all of that into the hands of our Father God, we keep calm and begin to see things differently: we appreciate their positive side, we laugh at ourselves and our limitations, we receive a joke or a setback with good humour, and then we can spread peace and make life pleasant for those around us.
We also get in a bad mood when something doesn’t go the way we want. But if we consider that this setback is something God permits to purify us, so that we can offer it up for our salvation and everyone else’s, things change. They change so much that, instead of complaining, we thank Him for the small or large difficulties we encounter in life. And we laugh, because we realize that it's not such a big deal, and that the Lord knows very well what He’s doing.
One source of bad humour is turning small problems over and over in our heads, so that they turn into tragedies that embitter our existence. Deep down, what we are doing is spinning round and round around ourselves. We have to stop the "carousel" of our imagination, break out of our self-centredness, focus on others and on God, and leave everything in His hands.
Another cause of bad humour, or lack of a sense of humour, is thinking ourselves important. You probably know people who believe they are the centre of the world, adopt a grave attitude, look down their noses, take everything seriously, can’t take a joke, and look as though they’ve never laughed in their lives.
God’s daughters and sons don’t consider themselves important; they laugh at themselves, which is the secret of a sense of humour. All their importance lies in being a child of God! If I am a child of God, I already possess the greatest treasure one can have; I am already the greatest thing one can be. Therefore, I can laugh at my defects, my unintelligence, and my weakness, because all of that has very relative importance.
We need to meditate on this and, above all, we must ask God to grant us this grace, because it’s very easy to say, "You have to laugh at yourself," but it’s difficult to do it in practice. We only have to think about how we react when someone tells us that we get angry over silly trifles, that we are vain, or that we have any other flaw. To say nothing of how we feel when they point out that we don’t have the capacity to perform certain roles. How hard it is for us to accept it!
It’s precisely then that we have to think about how much we’re worth to God, laugh, and be peaceful. How much easier coexistence becomes with good humour! We need to live in a cheerful environment, where there are no tragedies or fights over trifles, where we can express ourselves simply and naturally, where others understand us and take our mistakes with a sense of humour.
God has a good sense of humour; God laughs; God dances with joy with His children. "So many people judge God to be boring!" the Lord said to Gabrielle Bossis. People who judge God to be boring are either boring themselves, or think they are doing wrong when they laugh and have fun. In Jesus’ life there are many very painful, very hard moments: the Garden of Gethsemane, the Cross. But there are also pleasant, fun moments, full of lightheartedness—in Nazareth, with Joseph and Mary, with His grandparents, cousins, and friends. And later, in so many conversations with the Apostles that were not recorded in the Gospels.
There is a passage in the life of Jesus that, in my opinion, can’t be properly understood without keeping in mind His sense of humour. Perhaps some scripture scholar will laugh at me (and that would be quite an achievement, as it’s not easy to make a scripture scholar laugh). The Apostles are in the boat, in the middle of a rough sea, and they see Jesus, but think He is a ghost, even though He tells them no, that it is Him: "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." And Peter dares to ask Him, if it is Him, to command him to come out on the water.
If Jesus had no sense of humour, He would have said to Peter: "Stop that nonsense, Peter. There’s no need for you to start walking on water. Stay where you are and don’t do weird things." But the Lord tells him yes, to come, to walk on the sea. And I think He says it with a smile, and that He also laughs when He sees him sinking and reaches out His hand to lift him up, while calling him a "man of little faith" and asking why he doubted (cf. Mt 14:22ff). He gives him a lesson in trust, but with a sense of humour.
We Christians have sometimes reflected, in our faces and words, a serious Jesus who does not know how to laugh. As if laughing were something bad, unworthy of God. When it was God who created laughter and gave it to humans as a specifically human distinction so that we might be more like Him!
Someone who loves me just as I am
A few days ago, I heard a song by the group "Siempre así." I like all their songs, especially their rendition of the Salve rociera. But there is one, written by Rafa Almarcha, that I didn’t know before, and it made me think about how God loves me:
"Someone has turned my life upside down.
Someone has made me feel once again that twinge
when love decides to come."
God turned my life upside down when He made me understand that He loves me and that I can trust Him completely. And then I felt that twinge that someone feels when they finally find the one who truly loves them.
"Someone who arrives to stay, and who shows me an endless path.
Someone who makes me look ahead with joy and a desire to live.
Someone who has brought excitement to my heart and who loves me just as I am."
God has given me excitement, joy, and a desire to live because He revealed to me who I am: His child, another Christ. And He has entrusted me with a mission on earth. God loves me just as I am.
Some people think that the Lord can’t be happy with them because they have so many flaws. And if they fight against their flaws, they do it so that God will look at them differently and love them; but since they always have flaws and keep falling back into the same things, their Christian life becomes anxious and bitter.
God loves me just as I am. He made me. He loves me with my limitations and shortcomings. And He wanted me to have a few—or many—for several very wise reasons: so that I don’t fall into the sin of pride by thinking I am perfect; so that I can express my love to Him by fighting to overcome them; so that I remain aware that on my own I can don'thing; and lastly, so that I learn to love others with their flaws.
"Someone who makes me feel emotions and opens doors wherever I go.
Someone who dreams what I dream and brings out the best in me."
I listen to the song again, and I think that the Lord also dreams what I dream, that we share the same dream: to make many people happy who are currently sad, to help many people who need light, comfort, and bread; and afterward, to be together forever with all His children, my brothers and sisters, in Heaven.
Yes, the Lord knows how to bring out the best in me. And He achieves it not through threats, nor with shouts and peremptory orders, nor with a frightening expression, nor by setting before me lists of rules that forbid almost everything. He achieves it with His love and mercy, with His smile and tenderness, with His words of encouragement, taking me by the hand and saying: "Come on, child, I’m leading you. Don't worry, you’re doing very well. You're a champion!"
Thank You, Lord, because You awaken the best in me with Your love. You don’t move my heart with a cheap reward, nor with punishment. You move me with the love You show me, nailed to a cross and mocked. How can I resist someone who loves me so much? Whatever You ask of me, I won’t be able to say no to You.
"Someone who knows how to take me to heaven.
Someone I cannot resist."
God knows how to take me to heaven. Of course He knows how! And He wants to! That’s why, at every moment, He sends me what’s best for my and other people’s salvation: joys and sorrows, delights and pains, rest and work, suffering and well-being. Blessed be the hand that caresses me! Blessed be the hand that wounds me!
"Someone who looks the way I look.
Someone I always know is there.
Someone who cares for what I care for.
Someone loves me, someone is calling me, to make me happy.
And I have said yes to Him."
God looks the way I look because He knows how to put Himself in my shoes and see what I see; He loves me with His eyes and understands me. Since He is inside me and loves me, it’s very easy for Him. If He were far away, beyond the stars, how could He put Himself in my place?
And I also want to look the way He looks, to see things as He sees them, as they truly are. To do that, He takes me in His arms and sets me on His shoulders so I can see everything from His point of view. Yes, I know it’s a metaphor, but if you don't want metaphors, remember what faith is and what the gifts of the Holy Spirit are; and above all, the gift of wisdom, which makes us see things as God sees them. Remember what Saint Paul says: that we can and should have the mind of Christ and His very sentiments.
God is always by my side; He takes care of me, loves me, and calls me to make me happy. And I have said yes to Him! Because He helped me. I remember very well the moment I said that "yes." But I confess that back then I had no idea of His closeness, of how much He cares for us, loves us, and makes us happy. Nor did I imagine God back then as someone who always makes me smile with His sense of humour. I still imagined God as someone very serious.
"Someone who fills all my emptiness.
Someone who always makes me smile.
Someone who orders my five senses.
We have so much left to discover…!"
Does God really smile and make us smile? Yes. God has a sense of humour and loves to see us smiling. The problem is that we are dull, over-serious, and so absorbed in our own affairs that we don’t listen to what He’s telling us. Jesus teaches us to laugh at ourselves, and He laughs with us. When, almost without thinking, I give myself importance, the Lord looks at me with an amused smile and says: "Really? Look at what an important brother I have!" And then I realize how silly I am, and I laugh with Him.
We have so much left to discover about the Wisdom and Love of God… God is always greater, kinder, more beautiful, more affectionate, gentler, and more joyful than we can imagine.
"Someone who is music to my soul, for whom existence is worthwhile.
Someone who paints calm landscapes.
What more could I ask for…!"
Lord, You are music to my soul, a wonderful music that only You know how to extract by plucking the strings of my being with Your tenderness, because You have kneaded my flesh with the Blood of Your love. Because of You, it is worth existing, living on this earth, sailing on this sea, to fulfill Your plans and reach the harbour of Your Heart.
Lord, You paint calm landscapes. I have seen them so many times: vast fields of green wheat, immense dawn skies, air that relaxes the soul. Thank You, Lord, for the world You have given us to live in. We cannot ask for more: with Your Love, we have everything.
Little children in the arms of their Father
We consider ourselves grown up and mature, respectable and very responsible people. The childish acts of toddlers, at best, make us laugh, and we frequently disdain them. We have great experiences in life. We believe ourselves to be figures of a certain importance. We like to be listened to and looked at, as if we were a king holding court, or a hen laying an egg. We demand that our work, our merits, our titles, and our grey hairs be valued.
But that attitude is a continuous source of anxiety: Do they respect me? Do they take me into account? What do they think of me? Do they recognize my merits? Are they criticizing me behind my back? What can I do to increase my prestige?
When we are alone with ourselves, when we have stripped off our suit and see ourselves in pyjamas—in short, when we decide to look at ourselves with a little sincerity—our fears assail us, and we feel helpless before any storm that wants to lash at us: the bad opinion of others, hatred, illness, pain, death. Perhaps at those moments...
Love is a free gift from God
To live is to be loved by God
I read these words by Gabriel Marcel: "To be in the world means: to be loved by God." We tend to think that first we arrive in the world and then our relationship with God begins. But it isn’t true. We arrive in this world because God has thought of us and loved us from all eternity—each of us, me, with my first name and surname. And at a specific moment in history, He placed me on this earth through my parents.
God has loved me, loves me, and will always love me. Therefore, being here, in the world, means that God is currently loving me. He is loving me with a personal love: me, as if I were His only child. He is loving me with unconditional love: I don't need to do anything for Him to love me. He is loving me with a love that asks for love in return: love is paid for with love.
How many know this truth? It makes me sad to think that many people don't know that they breathe because they are loved by God. They live as if God did not exist. They live without a true love, the only one that can fill their longing to be loved. If they knew that they were being loved by God, their lives would change; they’d be happy, they’d stop looking for happiness in muddy puddles and would lose themselves in the sea of infinite Love.
Lord, I desire that everyone may know You, that all men and women in the world may know that they are loved by You, so that everyone may be happy on earth and in Heaven.
Abandonment and acceptance of God’s free love
Thomas More’s trust in God and good humour
If we trust completely in God, we will be able to reason as Saint Thomas More (1478–1535) did in the famous letter he wrote to his daughter Margaret while imprisoned in the Tower of London:
"Be of good comfort, my daughter, and do not worry about me, whatever may happen to me in this world. Nothing can happen to me unless God wills it. And all that He wills, however bad it may seem to us, is in reality for the best. Although I am convinced, my dear Margaret, that the wickedness of my past life is such that I deserve for God to abandon me entirely, not for a moment will I cease to trust in His immense goodness. Up to now, His most holy grace has given me strength to put everything aside: riches, profits, and life itself, rather than swear an oath against my conscience."
Thomas was accused of high treason for not taking the anti-papal oath that would give rise to the Anglican Church, for opposing the divorce of Henry VIII (his great friend) from Catherine of Aragon, and for not accepting the Act of Supremacy, which declared the king to be head of the new Church. Such was his trust in God that he did not lose his good humour even at the moment of martyrdom.
The executioner asked his forgiveness on his knees—as was customary—and More said to him: "Cheer up, man! Don't be afraid to perform your office. My neck is very short; take care, therefore, not to strike awry, to save your honesty." The executioner wanted to blindfold him, but More covered his own eyes, wrapping his face with a handkerchief he brought. He knelt slowly, placing his head on the block. As his beard got caught between his neck and the wood, he said to the executioner: "Please let me pass my beard over the block, lest you cut it."
"These were the last words of Thomas More. He knew how to mock himself and place his affairs, his own death, under the lens of the relative. For before God, the only reality worth living for, our death is not important either. One must have the soul of a child and firmly hold the Father's hand to be able to make jokes before one's own death." (Tadeusz Dajczer).
To Thomas More is attributed a prayer that manifests not only a sense of humour and common sense, but also a supernatural sense and trust in God:
"Grant me, Lord, a good digestion, and also something to digest. Grant me bodily health, with the good humour necessary to maintain it. Give me, Lord, a holy soul that knows how to make use of what is good and pure, so that it does not become frightened before sin, but finds the way to put things back in order. Grant me a soul that knows no boredom, murmurings, sighs, or laments, and don't permit me to suffer excessively over that dominant entity called 'ME'. Give me, Lord, a sense of humour. Grant me the grace to understand jokes, so that I may know a little joy in life and be able to share it with others. Amen."
Living today as if it were the only day
Worrying about the future destroys our peace of mind: unresolved problems, projects we don't know when we will finish, what might happen tomorrow—because unforeseen things might happen tomorrow that ruin all our plans, or new concerns may arise. And if not tomorrow, it could be in a few days or a few months. What will happen to my job, my family, our security? We get the impression we’re sailing in paper boats. It seems to us that many things are up in the air because they depend on other people, on chance, on good or bad luck. We can’t control anything; we’re not masters of the future, and that makes us even more anxious. And so, instead of truly living today, we suffer in advance over the problems that, according to our imagination, tomorrow will bring.
Furthermore, we are convinced that worrying is required by our sense of responsibility, it’s a duty, and that if we stay calm, we’ll be labelled as foolish and reckless. Well, that’s precisely what God doesn’t like: for us to worry about tomorrow, when it turns out that tomorrow is not in our hands, but in His. The Lord asks us to abandon the future to His care and to attend to our duties today, to live in the present moment because it is the only one we have to please Him with.
Age quod agis: Do what you are doing. Or in popular terms, "Focus on the here and now."
Jesus Christ spoke words to us that should fill us with peace: "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Mt 6:33-34).
The first thing we must seek is what matters. And what matters—the only thing that matters—is that today (not tomorrow; today) we please our Father, doing for love of Him what He entrusts to us today. That is how we seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
And tomorrow? Tomorrow depends on God’s governance, and we will continue to be under His Fatherly protection, just like today, and the people we love will also be protected by His loving care.
Christ’s words don't exempt us from taking steps to live a dignified life and help others. Nor does He forbid us to plan for the future, make financial and professional forecasts, have a work project, or do the best we can to forestall tomorrow's problems. The Lord has given us an intelligence capable of foresight, and it is His will that we should use it. But once we’ve applied the available means, drawn up our projects, and planned our steps sensibly, the most sensible thing is to focus on today, which is the only timeframe tailored to our strength.
The future is not in my hands, Lord, but in Yours. You take care of the future, and what You ask of me is to abandon it completely to You. Truly, absolutely, completely. You want me to focus my attention on the present moment, because it is now that You ask me to respond to Your love through the loving fulfillment of my duty.
The devotion of the present moment
I was very glad to read these words that the Lord addressed to Gabrielle Bossis: "The present moment. Put all your loving attention into it. Maintain the devotion of the present moment all your life. Nothing of the past. Nothing of the future, but the present moment of love."
Every moment is a treasure, and if we don't live it for God, we lose it. But that implies trusting Him completely, leaving yesterday and tomorrow in His hands. Each moment is unique. It will not return. It would be a pity to lose the opportunity to love the Lord and others right now.
Another woman, Chiara Lubich, in To Be Your Word, also tells us about the importance of the present moment:
"Scripture teaches us to do small things well: this is precisely the characteristic of someone who does nothing else with all their heart than what God asks of them in the present moment. If one lives in the present, God lives in them, and if God is in them, charity is in them. Whoever lives the present is patient, persevering, gentle, poor in everything, pure; they are merciful because they possess love in its highest and most genuine expression; they truly love God with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their strength; they are inwardly illuminated, guided by the Holy Spirit, and consequently don't judge, don't think ill, love their neighbour as themselves, have the strength of evangelical folly to turn the other cheek, to walk two miles... (...) Whoever lives in the present is in Christ the Truth. And that satisfies—it satisfies the soul that always longs to possess everything at every moment of its life."
Lord, sometimes my mind wanders, and I foolishly start thinking about the future or the past. Help me return to where I am, to the work I have at hand, to the person I am talking to, to You, to whom I am speaking in prayer, at Holy Mass, or on the street.
A poem by the writer Helen Mallicoat teaches us that God awaits us in the here and now:
"I was regretting the past
and fearing the future.
Suddenly my Lord was speaking:
'My name is I AM.' He paused.
I waited. He continued,
'When you live in the past,
with its mistakes and regrets,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I WAS.
When you live in the future,
with its problems and fears,
it is hard. I am not there.
My name is not I WILL BE.
When you live in this moment,
it is not hard. I am here.
My name is I AM.'"
Guardian Angel, you are always by my side and your mission is to help me fall completely in love with God. Give me a nudge when I have strayed from the present and am traveling through non-existent worlds with my imagination.
Man wants to put himself in God's place
The modern (and non-Christian) mentality that conceives of man as the absolute owner of the world has infected our way of viewing reality. That viewpoint inclines us to act as if God did not exist, as if we were gods, and everything depended exclusively on us. We want to control everything.
Consequently, we assume a responsibility that belongs to God alone and that only He can bear. But if human beings shoulder a weight that exceeds their strength, they become unbalanced, overwhelmed, broken, and crushed. Some mental illnesses have their origin right there. The anxiety and stress in which we habitually live in order to "manage everything" may be the cause of many instances of depression and mental exhaustion.
God does not ask that of us. What father would load his young child's shoulders with a hundred-kilo sack? He asks simpler things of us: to leave the heavy burden of the future to His care, to speak to Him, to treat the people around us with affection, to work for love, to be cheerful so as to make others happy, to bear the small daily setbacks with good humour...
If we carry the huge sack of worries, we will not have the strength to smile. The consequence of not abandoning our worries and big problems to God is that a person shuts themselves in more and more, to the point of forgetting those beside them. They live as if only they and their problems exist, turning them over and over in their minds time and again. They isolate themselves from the people they should be living with. They think no one understands them, they are constantly in a bad mood, and they complain about everything. That person suffers and makes those around them suffer.
Lord, I don't want to take Your place. I surrender to You all the problems and worries that I cannot solve and that consume my time and attention, because I want my mind to be free to think of others, and how to make them happy. I know that You will take care of solving things better than I could have ever planned.
Blind wise men and wise children
Anthropocentrism turns one's own reason into the supreme reason, the absolute criterion of truth, good, and evil: what I don't understand is meaningless. What I don't comprehend is a mystery, and mysteries make no sense. And I don't admit that there is a wisdom higher than my own to which I must submit, because that would be unworthy of a human being.
This attitude is brutally reflected in a letter from Heinrich Kerler to Max Scheler. He wrote, "Even if the existence of God could be mathematically proven, I would not want Him to exist, because He would limit me in my greatness."
Whoever puts themselves in the place of God cannot admit the mystery of suffering; they want to understand it, but cannot, and conclude that it is absurd. And if they are told to trust in God because He knows more than we do, they refuse to accept it. They don't want to humble themselves. They rebel against Him, judge Him cruel and heartless, or deny Him. Pride blinds the eyes of the soul.
We cannot take these words of the Lord lightly: "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 18:3-4).
This is not just a piece of advice that is interesting to a certain extent. It is an essential condition for entering the Kingdom of Heaven. If we don't become like children, it’s not that it will be harder to enter; we will not enter at all. That’s why Saint Augustine states that the most essential element of the religion of Jesus Christ is, first, humility; second, humility; and third, humility (cf. Letters, 118, 22).
Those who become like children, who humble themselves, understand. And those who don’t humble themselves don’t understand. Those who make their reason the sole criterion of truth remain blind; children, on the other hand, receive God’s wisdom and see with God’s eyes.
"In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, 'I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was Your gracious will'" (Lk 10:21).
Lord, I ask You to make me a little child in Your arms, that I may trust completely in Your wisdom and Your love, even when I don't understand. In the face of pain, suffering, and death, which I don't comprehend, I admit that my intelligence is limited—because it is that of a child—and that I must trust completely in Your providence, because You are good and only desire my good.
God likes to see His children at peace
God does not like to see a child of His worry and lose sleep. He does not like it when, at night upon going to bed, they think anxiously about the next day. And it is clear why He doesn't like it. Don’t parents love seeing their little children sleeping with total peace on their faces? Well, God also has the right to enjoy our abandonment into His hands.
It is obvious why our distrust hurts Him. And it undoubtedly seems ridiculous to Him. A little child, who barely knows how to speak, worried about the future, when it turns out his Father is Almighty God!
"But that at night, when you go to bed, you worry about the next day—that I do not like, my child. Don't be so foolish; do you know how I will fashion the next day? Do you even know the colour of the weather? You would do better to say your prayers. I have never denied the next day’s bread" (Charles Péguy).
"Tomorrow, what will happen tomorrow? Nothing is certain. Will I fall ill tomorrow? Will I have money for tomorrow's expenses? What if what could happen actually happens? What if what should happen, doesn't? Maybe I need to make tomorrow even more secure. It's not for me, it's for my family, for my children..."
That is how we think, and we waste our time and wear out our nerves. We lose our good humour and make those around us lose theirs. Do we even know if tomorrow will come for us? We don't know, nor does God have any intention of telling us. Because a Father like Him deserves the full trust of His children.
"Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord. There are many who say, 'Who will show us some good?' Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord! You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound. In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety." (Ps 4:5-8)
Help me, Lord, to leave tomorrow in Your hands. When night comes, I will say my childlike prayers: Our Father, Thy will be done. I will ask you to forgive me for my many lacks of love, I’ll feel your warm embrace, and I’ll sleep soundly, knowing that I am sleeping in your arms, and that tomorrow you will give me tomorrow’s bread.