Excerpt from Golden Sands: A Collection of Little Counsels for the Sanctification and Happiness of Daily Life
In the summer, in the south of France, little children and the infirm poor, incapable of hard labor, in order to earn a little bread, occupy themselves in collecting from the beds of half-dried rivers golden sands which are carried by the water in its course and glisten in the sun.
What these poor and little ones do with the golden sands which God has scattered in these unknown rivers, let us attempt, with these little counsels which God has scattered everywhere to sparkle, and glisten, and comfort for an instant, then to disappear, leaving to the soul the regret of not having gathered them.
Who has not sometimes felt the strength of some sweet and simple lesson which thrilled him, and revealed to him suddenly a world of peace, of devotion, and of joy?
It was a word read in a book, a remark heard by accident in conversation, but which for us had a particular meaning, and left us with an unknown strength.
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