Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

guests, she did not a t tem p t to conceal it. She told the sisters, for example, th a t when she was in the garden spreading m anure, a church dign itary approached; she was not embarrassed and did no t stop b u t continued h e r work peacefully. Thus work, which a t the beginning had given her some problems with h e r sp iritua l life, as time went on became the occasion of showing love to the Lord. Work became loved as the expression of th e will of God. How much in it could be offered to God! 'O life so dud and monotonous, hozv many treasures you contain! ‘When I booh a t everything zvith the eyes o f fa i th , no tzvo hours are alike, and the dudness and monotony disappear. rThe grace zvhich is given me in this hour zvid not be repeated in the ne^t. I t may be given me again, but it zvid not be the same grace. HXme goes on, never changes; it seals zvith a seal fo r eternity.’ (Diary, Notebook I, para . 62). Doing work which was outwardly monotonous, S ister F au s tina ’s life was richly filled with a varied and divine substance. 410