I assure you that if with God’s grace and reliable counsel we strive wholeheartedly to pattern our love and our life after Mary Magdalene’s, our Lord will defend us as he did her. Anyone who thinks or speaks against us will feel the Lord’s rebuke in the secret of his conscience. This is not to say that we shall have nothing to put up with. Certainly we shall, as Mary did. mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, David Reese