I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD. They are plans for peace and not disaster, plans to give you a future filled with hope. –Jeremiah 29:11
The crosses which we make for ourselves by a restless anxiety as to the future, are not crosses which come from God. We show want of faith in Him by our false wisdom, wishing to forestall His arrangements, and struggling to supplement His Providence by our own providence.
The future is not yet ours; perhaps it never will be. If it comes, it may come wholly different from what we have foreseen. Let us shut our eyes, then, to that which God hides from us, and keeps in reserve in the treasures of His deep counsels. Let us worship without seeing…let us abide in peace. — Francois Fénelon (1651-1715), Catholic archbishop and poet
