Food for Thought!

The Two Roads - A choice.
[From the Diary of Saint Faustina .]
One day, I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end without realizing it. And at the end of the roads there was a horrible precipice; that is the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness, and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings. (153)

An Irish Memory
The old farmer walked with his walking stick and a rosary in his hands, and timed the turning of the rosary beads to coincide with his steps. He knew exactly where he was making for: “Well, we were at the third decade…."

Rene Laennec; (French physician, father of modern pulmonary disease research) to his wife, after he was thrown from their carriage in an accident; whereupon they went on with the rosary they had been reciting just before the accident!