Spiritual Wisdom

A friend of mine is currently undergoing treatment for cancer - recently it seems to have hit a lot of people that I know and love.  He shared with me the following written by St. Francis de Sales.

The everlasting God has in his wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that he now presents to you as a gift of his inmost heart. The cross he how sends you he has considered with his all-knowing eyes, understood with his divine mind, tested with his wise justice, warmed with loving arms,
and weighed with his own hands to see that is is not one inch too large nor one ounce too heavy for you. He has blessed it with his holy name, anointed it with his grace, perfumed it with his consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God.