Divine Service

I didn't even know about this prayer/mediation until one of the Sisters on My Sisters asked which line of it was our favorite.  I looked up the prayer and have posted it here.  Which is your favorite line?

 SOME DEFINITE SERVICE

John Henry Cardinal Newman

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God knows me and calls me by my name.…

God has created me to do Him some definite service;

He has committed some work to me

     which He has not committed to another.

I have my mission—I never may know it in this life,

     but I shall be told it in the next.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes…

     I have a part in this great work;

I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection

     between persons.

He has not created me for naught. I shall do good,

     I shall do His work;

I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth

     in my own place, while not intending it,

     if I do but keep His commandments

     and serve Him in my calling.

Therefore I will trust Him.

     Whatever, wherever I am,

     I can never be thrown away.

If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him;

In perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him;

If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.

My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be

     necessary causes of some great end,

     which is quite beyond us.

He does nothing in vain; He may prolong my life,

     He may shorten it;

     He knows what He is about.

     He may take away my friends,

     He may throw me among strangers,

     He may make me feel desolate,

     make my spirits sink, hide the future from me—

     still He knows what He is about.…

Let me be Thy blind instrument. I ask not to see—

     I ask not to know—I ask simply to be used.

from Meditations and Devotions,

"Meditations on Christian Doctrine,"

"Hope in God—Creator", March 7, 1848

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