Questions to Guide Your Reading

1. According to Thérèse, her soul had long been subject to trials of many different kinds, ever since she came into the world.  What, however, had changed?

2. Thérèse describes how on the previous Easter, her soul had been filled with indescribable happiness with thoughts of God.  What followed this tremendous happiness?  With what was her soul to be "overrun"?

3. What is the point of Thérèse's "fairy story" about the country of darkness?

4. When Thérèse got tired of the darkness all around her, and tried to refresh her spirits with the thoughts of that "bright country" where her all her hopes lay, was she comforted?  Explain.

5. What is Thérèse's conviction in the midst of her darkness?  Explain.