“My son, says the Lord, commit your cause always to Me; I will dispose of it in due time. Wait for My ordering of it, and there you shall find your good.
O Lord, most cheerfully do I commit all unto You, for my thinking can little avail. Would that I did not so much dwell on future events but gave myself up without reluctance to Your good pleasure.
My son, oftentimes a man vehemently struggles for something he desires, but when he has attained it, he changes his mind. For the affections remain not firmly around the same thing but rather drive us from one thing to another. It is no small thing for a man to forsake himself even in things that are very small.
The true profiting of a man is the denying of himself, and a man who has denied himself is exceedingly free and secure.”
from chapter 39, Of the Imitation of Christ, Thomas â Kempis
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