Also known as Father, I abandon myself into your hands, Charles de Foucauld
Written by Blessed Charles de Foucauld, who spent fifteen years in the Sahara with almost nothing to show for it. For the stretches when a person has genuinely run out of plans.
Father, 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.
Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916), drawn from his meditation on Luke 23:46
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