The object of our creation is union with God and that is the sole reason that justifies our being here. God's creation of us is a very great mystery; we cannot understand how this union can possibly be. God's infinite perfection, our imperfection; God in his splendour, we in our misery. And yet we believe, and the bridge that unites us is our blessed Lord. We must ask ourselves how it is possible that God can be united to such, worthless human beings. We could understand union as a reward to chosen spirits, faithful, undeviating, precious souls, but that we should be of that company seems astonishing. If it were a reward for heroic sanctity; but just ordinary souls…. And yet we realise that. Union is not easier between precious things, but between yielding things. It is impossible to mix diamonds with anything. It may be our very worthlessness that makes union possible.