Every Little Discipline Helps (EC)

Every step you take along the right path - no matter how falteringly - takes you ever nearer the goal, to the ultimate realisation of Me. Every little discipline helps. Learning to say "no" to yourselves, making yourselves do something which is not at all easy but you know is necessary, because My still small voice within has asked you to do it, helps and strengthens you, until the time comes when you can really do everything I ask you to do with joy without a moment's hesitation. It will come to that if you are patient and persevere and learn instant obedience in the small things of your everyday life.

How can I give you greater responsibilities when you find it hard to carry the ones you have already been given? I never ask you to carry more than you are able without giving you the strength to do so. Carry the responsibilities, which I have given you with shoulders thrown back, a smile on your face and a song in your heart, and learn to enjoy them to the full and be not bowed down by them.