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 may never
know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between
persons. He has not created me for nothing.
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.
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.
He does nothing in vain.
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 my future from me – still he knows what he is about.