The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. ~Psalm 23:1
There is never a moment when God does not come forward in the guise of some suffering or some duty, and all that takes place within us, around us and through us both includes and hides his activity. Yet, because it is invisible, we are always taken by surprise and do not recognize his operation until it has passed by us. If we could lift the veil and if we watched with vigilant attention, God would endlessly reveal himself to us and we should see and rejoice in his active presence in all that befalls us. At every event we should exclaim: "It is the Lord!" (John 21:7) Nothing could happen to us without our accepting it as a gift from God.
~Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J., in Abandonment to Divine Providence
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