Look at the manger and do not be disturbed by the naive depiction of some of them. This is the ransom for the human perspective on divine realities. Let them awaken in you only the thought of Him who is your God and calls you to follow, to the spirit of childhood and surrender. May you, like Jesus, have a trusting relationship with God as a little child. May you have, like Him, a tender surrender to the Virgin Mary, His mother, and in everything let you turn to her like a small child who needs to have his mother by his crib. A crib over which a mother does not lean is something painful...
(little sister Magdalena of Jesus /1898–1989/, Bulletin vert, 1945)
