Uneasy forebodings do us much harm why do you so readily give way to them? We make our own troubles, and what do we gain by it? but lose, instead, so much both for time and eternity. Why should you be so ingenious in tormenting yourself beforehand about something which perhaps will never happen? Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. ?" This is indeed a temptation of the enemy. “But," say you, "what will become of me if. They are before God like a perfectly woven fabric with a clear surface and neither think, nor seek to know what God will be pleased to trace thereon, because they have confidence in Him, they abandon themselves to Him, and, entirely absorbed by their duty, they think not of themselves, nor of what may be necessary for them, nor of how to obtain it.” In a word, their disposition resembles the atmosphere, which is affected by every breeze or water, which flows into any shaped vessel exactly filling every crevice. As this takes any form according to the mould into which it is poured, so these souls are pliant and easily receptive of any form that God chooses to give them. Such souls have no more consistence and rigidity than molten metal. In this the soul is light as a feather, liquid as water, simple as a child, active as a ball in receiving and following all the inspirations of grace. “In the state of abandonment the only rule is the duty of the present moment.
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