abandonment to God

Abandonment in God has to be closely united with responsibility, which leads us to use the most opportune human means, for on many occasions what is disguised as ‘bad luck’, adverse circumstances etc., is nothing but hidden mediocrity, indolence or imprudence in not employing the precise means that a situation has called for. When work is done conscientiously, with order (systematically and methodically), when it is properly finished off, when it has been sanctified like constant apostolate done with a spirit of sacrifice, it gives fruit in due course. And if these fruits take their time in coming, it is a sign that God will give them by means we have not suspected, and that He wants us to sanctify ourselves in precisely these circumstances.