<p>TO RHONA BODLE, who <b>had written</b> Lewis of her upcoming confirmation: </p><p>On not expecting remarkable sensations /<span style="color: #f89009;">connected</span> to holy activities.<br><br>9 November 1949<br><br>Congratulations. You <b>are </b>daily in my prayers.<br><br>Caveat [let her beware!]</p><p>* Caveat in Latin means "let him beware" </p><p> </p><p>—<b>don’t count on</b> [any remarkable sensations], either at this or your first (or fifty first) Communion.</p><p> </p><p>God <b>gives</b> these or not as He pleases.</p><p>*  or (God gives) not as He pleases. </p><p> </p><p>Their presence <b>does not prove</b> that things <b>are</b> especially well,</p><p>nor their absence that things <b>are</b> wrong.</p><p>* nor their absence (prove) that things are wrong. </p><p> </p><p>The intention, the obedience, <b>is</b> [what <b>matters</b>].<br><br>From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II<br>Compiled in Yours, Jack</p>
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