One Thing Is Necessary...And It Is Not Beauty, Not Health, Not Talent. It Is The Salvation Of Our Immortal Souls.

‎Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with God. Speak with familiarity and confidence as to your dearest and most loving friend. Speak of your life, your plans, your troubles, your joys, your fears. In return, God will speak to you--not that you will hear audible words in your ears, but words that you will clearly understand in your heart. These may be feelings of peace, hope, interior joy, or sorrow for sin...gentle knockings at the door of your heart. 

Who knows? Perhaps if God had given us greater talent, better health, a more personable appearance, we might have lost our souls! Great talent and knowledge have caused many to be puffed up with the idea of their own importance and, in their pride, they have despised others. How easily those who have these gifts fall into grave danger to their salvation! How many on account of physical beauty or robust health have plunged headlong into a life of debauchery! How many, on the contrary, who, by reason of poverty, infirmity or physical deformity, have become saints and have saved their souls, who, given health, wealth or physical attractiveness had else lost their souls! Let us then be content with what God has given us. "But one thing is necessary," and it is not beauty, not health, not talent. It is the salvation of our immortal souls.

From all this can you now have any doubt that God wishes to save you? From this moment onward never dare to utter again: 'I wonder does God wish to save me. Maybe He wishes to see me damned on account of the sins I have committed against Him.' Get rid of all such thoughts, once and for all, since you must now realize that God is helping you with His graces and calling you insistently to love Him. - Saint Alphonsus Liguori