I abandon myself into your hands;
do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me,
and in all your creatures
–
I wish no more than this, O Lord.
Into your hands I commend my soul:
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,
for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,
to surrender myself into your hands without reserve,
and with boundless confidence,
for you are my Father.
That beautiful Prayer of Abandonment by Charles de Foucauld is posted here, at the blog of my New Zealand confrere Bosco Peters, who wonders if anyone knows the story behind it.
Check out Bosco’s blog for more — including this great quote of the great Cistercian martyr, which could be inscribed on the heart of every deacon (and a lot of other people, for that matter):
“I would like to be sufficiently good that people would say, ‘If such is the servant, what must the Master be like?’
Amen.
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