 Let's follow the heart on these occasions more than the head. And let's remember that perseverance is fundamentally a question of love. Let's make that clear before we forget. People abandon their vocation because their love is allowed to grow cold. And so we read in a text from St. Gregory the Great, one of the great early church fathers. And so it happened that the woman who stayed behind to see Christ was the only one to see him. For perseverance is essential to any good deed.