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Theresa never ceased to thank God for her brothers, gifts of God, while she carefully avoided finding in them the happiness that she wished to find only in Him. She was able to discover remedies for the inevitable difficulties of all community life through deeper spiritual meditation. Theresa's charity spread to the whole world. She hoped, by living her Carmelite vocation to the extreme, to attract a great many brothers and sisters to Christ. In the gospel, she discovered how fertile her life could be. Through prayer, she understood that her mission would continue on Earth after her death.