小梅住在一棟美麗舒服的房子裡，但是非常孤單，她的母親在她五歲時就去世了，從此她的父親變了，再也不上教堂了。母親在世的時她玩的遊戲父親認為太吵了，就走出屋外。

   「孩子們！」老師說，「今天，我要教你們一個新的祈禱文，我要你們常常唸『耶穌聖心，我信賴祢！』你們應該常常信賴耶穌聖心」。

   小梅舉手發言：「修女，天主帶走我的母親，我還應該信賴祂嗎？」

「是的，親愛的，因為耶穌知道假如妳的母親活在世上會受很多苦，祂寧願她在天堂享受永遠的福樂」。

放學後，修女送給這個孤單的小女孩一張耶穌聖心像，上面有『耶穌聖心，我信賴祢！』的字樣。

小梅很高興的說：「我要叫我的父親念它」。

   S先生正在抽煙，小女孩走來，要求他教她念聖像上的經文。她反覆的念那經文，但小梅不滿意，求他再重複念一次。為了取悅她，他照做了。

小梅把聖像放在父親的桌子上，讓他不得不看見它。好幾天了，她都會來求他重複地念那經文，後來他開始想那經文的意義，每當他念那經文時，聖像上耶穌的眼睛好像在追尋他。

   有一天，小梅衝進父親的房間，他正在寫字。

    她對他說：「爸爸，我有一個最可愛最美麗的秘密。」

    她的父親笑著問她：「什麼事?」

   「爸爸，我將在耶穌聖心節初領聖體。修女說我們可以把它獻給媽媽，我想媽媽在天堂和耶穌聖心在一起，從天上看顧我們。你會來參加吧！然我們會很幸福。」

     父親溫和的回答：「親愛的，我會想想看」。

     小梅走了，S先生沉思了很久。

他看了手上的耶穌聖心像，回想小女兒的話。是的，他知道他太太死的時候充滿了對天主的信賴和愛。他失去了對天主的信心和依靠，現在他決定跟著女兒信賴仁慈的耶穌聖心。

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21.The Most Lovable & The Most Beautiful Secret

        Although little May lived in a beautiful home, she was very lonely.   Her mother had died when she was five years of age and since that day her father no longer was the same.   He never went to church and,  when she tried to play games as she used to when mother was alive, he would tell her that she was too noisy or he would go out of the room.

        “Children,” said the teacher,  “I shall teach you a new prayer today and I want you to say it very often.   ‘Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in You!’   You must always trust the Heart of Jesus.”   May raised her hand for permission to speak.   “Sister, must we trust Him just the same when He takes our mother away?”  “Yes, dear, for perhaps Jesus knew that if mother had lived she would have had to suffer and He wanted her to be happy in heaven.”   When school was dismissed, the teacher gave the lonely little child a picture of the Sacred Heart with the words,  “Sacred Heart of Jesus,  I place my trust in You!”   May was delighted and said,  “I shall make Daddy say it.”

        Mr. S. was smoking when the little child approached him and asked him to teach her the new prayer that was on her picture.   He repeated the words, but May was not satisfied and asked him to say them over again.   To please her, he did so.  She left the picture on his desk where he could not help seeing it.   For several days she would come and ask him to repeat the words.   At last he began to think of the meaning and, wherever he turned,  the eyes of the picture seemed to pursue him.

        One day May burst into the room where her father was writing and said,  “Daddy,  I have the loveliest and beautifulest secret you ever heard!”   Her father smiled and asked what it was.  “I am going to make my First Communion on the Feast of the Sacred Heart.   Daddy, Sister said we could offer it for mother.  I think mother will be in heaven with the Sacred Heart, looking down on us.   Will you come, Daddy?   Then we shall always be happy.”   “I shall think about it, dear,”  was the gentle reply.

        After May had gone, Mr. S. sat buried in abstraction for a long time.   Then he took the picture of the Sacred Heart in his hand as he thought of the child’s words.  Yes, he knew his wife had died full of confidence and love for God.   He had failed in faith and trust, but now he resolved to follow his little daughter was leading him.   He, too, would place his trust in the Heart of mercy.