all for him

Saint Francis de Sales, in an early letter to the woman who would one day be Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, described the true freedom of a daughter of God that she should strive for: “If a soul has become attached to the exercise of meditation and you interrupt this practice, that person will be upset and anxious. But a soul with true freedom of spirit will react with a cheerful face and a kind heart to this annoyance, because everything is the same: either serving God by meditating, or serving Him by putting up with our neighbor. Both are God’s will, but putting up with our neighbor is necessary then.”