Excerpt from Notes of Spiritual Retreats and Instructions

For He made me. I belong to Him. He has the right to me. Let Him say what He wills. Let Him ask of me what He pleases. It is ungenerous to make conditions. He has a right to all, because I am the work of His Hands. He made me with a purpose that I Should do His will. He has never changed. It is I who have changed. It is I who have been unmindful of the purpose for which He made me. But though I Should come with many, many years of my life wasted, with innumerable graces thrown away, He wills it still - that end, my own good. He stood in no need of me. All He asks is for my own benefit. Who so happy as the soul that gives itself to the Divine Will? Who so happy here? Who so happy in the world to come?

Was I ever the better for my wilfulness? How often I have swept away the Divine Will! Have I not always been the worse for so doing? Has ih difference to His Will, has drifting idly, carelessly, done me good? There shall be an end to this careless indifference, so that I may come to God. This is my day, a day given in order that I may do what He wants me to do who made me 'out of love.

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