Liza's Story Part 10

It is truly fabulous how Liza has found herself on the streets of Budapest all alone. I wonder what odd jobs she got? Who did she compare her life to and what state of mind did she find herself in?

By the way, Elizabeth was a market porter in the Great Hall, a dawn pastry and milk carrier, a potato peeler in a bakery, a "professional" nutcracker for confectioners, where she was not allowed to eat a single grain because she was counted back from the shell.

She worked so skillfully and quickly that the other women became jealous and threw a shell into her butter rolls, which got her fired by the owner!

For longer or shorter periods he was a pretzel and candy salesman at the cinema, where he could see all the films, but he didn't remember their titles, but rather only a few hummable tunes from the pianist's music.

His days were free anyway. And although these days were always somehow rounded off, Elizabeth had not day problems, but hour problems! Nevertheless, she tried to contemplate the beauties of life, or, in her case, the sunny side of the street!

Elizabeth mourned the human indifference, but she continued to struggle and work, because only in this way did she hope to discover God's will for her - albeit - her fate, like that of Job in the Bible - which she had heard about in church, of course - was less and less understood, but she had faith in the future!

Unfortunately, Elizabeth could not know then that she was living under the Lord's sure supervision everywhere and at all times, and that everything that happened in her life was a "training" and preparation for her extraordinary mission "...which I have been working in your soul since childhood." (cf. III/240)