May I please you and give you glory forever. I humbly and earnestly entreat you to continue the same for me direct all that I do, guide me in your ways, govern me at every moment of my life, and bring me into the fullness of being that you have destined for me from all eternity. Holy, wise, generous, and loving Providence! I thank you for the tender care you have taken of me up to this moment. Peaceful and contented in all, I will allow your Providence to govern my life without worry or over eagerness. I know that you will either preserve me from the evils I dread, or turn them to my good and your glory. Abandonment to divine providence by Caussade, Jean Pierre de, d. I confide to you the success of all my undertakings, and in all difficulties I will have recourse to you as a never-failing source of help. Abandonment to divine providence / Author: Caussade, Jean Pierre de, -1751 Note: Exeter : S. Nihil Obstat ANSCAR VONIER, O.S.B., Abbot DOM DUNSTAN, O.S.B. As I rely entirely upon you and expect all from your goodness, I will not give myself up to any useless anxiety. ABANDONMENT TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE ia The translation from the French of Father de Caussade’s book on Abandonment to Divine Providence is to my knowledge well done, and is a faithful rendering of the original text. I place my destiny in your hands, confiding to you all that I have, all that I am, and all that I am to become – my body and my soul, my health and reputation, my life, my death, and my eternal salvation. Act of Abandonment to Divine Providence Providence of my God, I adore you in all your designs.
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