The Little Flower: Humility and God's Unconditional Love

So then she one day was in her garden—that's where the name 'the Little Flower' comes from. So she saw that there are these beautiful big flowers, roses—I'm very bad at flowers, but big flowers—and also there are very tiny flowers as well. And when the sun comes up, all are nourished in the light of the sun; all are loved by the sun. Can we say that the sun loves the rose more than the lily? In the same way, some of us are big superstars of spirituality, of God, of all of that, and some of us are little flowers that He looks at us for a... she says He looks at us at a glance and He smiles. That is what we are there for. So beautiful, so sweet. Then we don't have to understand why some are like that and some are like this, because this is the usual human condition in spirituality as with something else.

Saying that, what is that song? You know, this constant thing is there. It's a representation of the same thing, isn't it? Saying that, but look at this one. And you say that Valmiki, he was a murderer, he killed so many people; Augustine was such a sinner, and St. Paul was such a sinner, and You made them into such amazing saints. Do something about our life also, no? This question can come, that why is it like this? Why is the distinction? But we can never truly fathom God and His will. We just have to accept that if we can be here for Him and He can look at us with love, isn't that much more than we can ask for? So never get into this spiritual competitiveness. We don't know who is winning, who is... so this Little Flower, she at 24, she left the body because of tuberculosis, and she became one of the greatest sages while thinking that whole life she's just going to be a little flower of God. She wanted to be a saint and she felt like, why is it God blesses others like this so much? And then here she realized that in the garden, He loves every flower. The sun shines His light on every flower. So then she's happy to be a little flower, and then God made her wish come true that she became one of the greatest saints that ever lived at such a young age also.

Exactly, that's a very beautiful point. She felt like He's given her that divine inspiration, so then He has to find some way. Because when she looked at herself and read the books of other sages and saints, she found that she's nowhere like them. Isn't that like all of us? We see these things and we feel like we are nowhere like them, then there's no chance for us. But she said that if He has given me this inspiration in my heart, then He will also show me the way. He will make me climb the ladder; He will give me the ladder. So I have to take the tiny step, the tiny part of that step, and He will take the bigger step, the bigger part of that step. But we don't have that trust. We don't have... I don't have that trust, I don't have the confidence to take the tiny step allowing Him to take the bigger part of the step. So deep humility and deep confidence at the same time, but confidence not in our own strength but in His power. Every word, every passage, so much to learn from.