From Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence: The Secret of Peace and Happiness by Fr. Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure and St. Claude de la Colombière
St. Francis Borgia, the third General of the Society of Jesus, provides us a good example in this matter. He was once travelling to a house of the Society when it was snowing hard and bitterly cold, and his arrival was delayed until a late hour of the night when everybody was in bed and asleep. He had to wait some time before his knocking aroused someone to let him in, and then to the apologies for keeping him waiting so long in such foul weather, he answered cheerfully that it was a great consolation to him to think that it was God who had dropped so much snow on him.
This practice of conformity to His will is so pleasing to God that it often has a visible influence on the material things of life. There is a story in the Lives of the Desert Fathers of a labourer whose fields always gave better crops than those of his neighbours. When asked the reason, he replied that he always had whatever kind of season or weather he chose. “I never wish for any other kind of weather but what God wishes,” he explained, “and as I wish for everything that pleases God, He too gives me the sort of crop that pleases me.” (41).
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