Chapter VI: Part 6

_Colloquy._ I kneel at the door of the empty stable and offer Thee my heart, O my little JESUS! I have tried to make room for Thee; I have made my poor little preparations with Thy blessed Mother; I have taken long journeys to get to Thee; but my body is not fit to be Thy temple and my heart is treacherous and faithless. I am ashamed to have so poor a shelter to offer Thee. If it were not that Thou didst ask for it, I dare not offer it. Oh! Thou Who didst not refuse the manger-bed, come to my heart, look at the contrition and the humiliation and the reparation and the aching longing to be what Thou dost want, and forget the faithlessness and the failures and the weakness. Come, my little King, incarnate for me, come and save me, if I were not a sinner I should not need a Saviour.

_Resolution._ To keep very near to Mary and Joseph to-day.

_Spiritual Bouquet._ "In the morning you shall see His glory."

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious spelling and punctuation errors were repaired, but unusual period spellings and grammatical usages were retained.

Headings and scripture references were inconsistently formatted and have been standardized, but variations in book titles and abbreviations were retained.

Where punctuation in contents page entries and chapter headings in original did not agree, the contents page entries were corrected.

He, Him, His, etc. when referring to "Jesus" and "God" are capitalized throughout the original, and "Jesus" placed in small caps. The few exceptions have been changed to conform to the majority.

Contents page--ditto marks were used in the original. The marks were replaced by actual repeated words as follows: chapters 8-11, St. John the Baptist; chapters 16-20, The Interior Life; chapters 22-24 and 26-28, December. Also, under Prayers, "Sancta Dei Genitrix," for each line after the first, "ora pro nobis" replaces ditto marks.

P. 5: "few streaks of Thy Divine Light"--original shows "Th Divine Light" with a gap after "Th."

P. 20: "(3) The Sentences." The original labels the subheadings within (3) as (1) and (2). This format was retained. Also "There are only two," original shows "The are only two."

P. 61: "come to do Thy Will," original reads "come do Thy Will."

P. 64-65: "example which you set. Teach me, too;" original reads "example which you set [page break] teach me, too."