it's not my work. it's your work, Lord.

Yes, humanly, everything is finished. I can do no more, and I do not want to do any more. But it is You, Lord, Who order me to set out again. I will set out again, therefore, not because it seems reasonable to me, but because You order me to do so. Immediately our action is elevated on to a supernatural plane, where human considerations are of no further value. We begin again not in order to succeed, but to obey. In verbo tuo! I don’t want to act any more but, my God, make of me, make in me, make through me, what seems good to You. It is not my work that I am accomplishing, it is Yours.

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