I doubt you had time to read  about St. Therese and her "Little Way". It is a pity because St. Therese is a wonderful spirituality-teacher with deep insights in God.

She shares with us her experience about God: "I know that God is infinitely just, but, His very justice, that terrifies so many souls, is the source of my confidence and joy. His justice takes into account our good intentions and gives to virtue its reward. What a sweet joy to remember that our Lord is just, that he takes into account our weakness and that He knows well the frailty of our nature.

It is because he is just that He remembers that we are dust. 1 hope for, as much from the justice of the Lord, as from his mercy.

“To stay little” we must recognize our own insignificance, and expect everything from the goodness of God.

1 am incapable of earning life eternal. So 1 am content to do only what a child can do: the little things that please almighty God. Being a little child means not attributing to ourselves any virtues we may possess. It means recognizing the fact that God places the treasury of his virtue in our childish hands for us to use as we need it. But it remains His treasure, His gift.

Finally, staying little means not losing courage when we tumble, we are too small, in fact, to suffer serious injury. We must stay little in order to make quick progress along the path of divine love. You will be able to say with John of the Cross: "By stooping so low 1 mounted so high that 1 was able to reach my goal".

What Therese wrote was drown from her experience and sounds very refreshing to our weary souls.