Thanksgiving also belongs to prayer. Thanksgiving
is a true inward acknowledgment, we applying ourselves with great reverence and
loving fear and with all our powers to the work that our Lord moved us to,
rejoicing and giving thanks inwardly. And sometimes the soul is so full of this
that it breaks out in words and says: Good Lord, great thanks, blessed may you
be. And sometimes the heart is dry and feels nothing, or else, by the
temptation of our enemy, reason and grace drive the soul to implore our Lord with
words, recounting his blessed Passion and his great goodness. And so the power
of our Lord's word enters the soul and enlivens the heart and it begins by his
grace faithful exercise, and makes the soul to pray most blessedly, and truly
to rejoice in our Lord. This is a most loving thanksgiving in his sight.
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