When it comes to your parents and sister, never lose hope. Remember how much patience God had with you. It seemed that nothing could bring you to understand His love. And the impossible happened. It is our task to try to love God in our wretchedness, to bear witness to Him that will always be just a tiny, infinitely disproportionate reflection. It happens that He uses our wretchedness to illuminate souls at a moment and in a place of His choosing, and often in ways we would not expect.
(Card. Charles Journet /1891–1975/, correspondence)
