forty days: progress

day four

material progress

spritual progress

The value of voluntary mortification consists much more
in the good will with which it is practiced than in the intensity of the suffering
which is imposed, although the latter may contribute to it
in the sense that a more painful mortification requires more good will.
The amount of suffering must be wisely proportioned,
and limited to the physical strength of each one;
but what must never be limited is the love,
the spirit of generosity with which we perform each act of sacrifice.

(from Divine Intimacy, #96, "The Proof of Love")