'Let us imagine our confusion when we appear before God
and understand the reasons why He sent us the crosses we accept so
unwillingly. The death of a child will then be seen as its rescue from
some great evil had it lived, separation from the woman you love the
means of saving you from an unhappy marriage, a severe illness the
reason for many years of life afterwards, loss of money the means of
saving your soul from eternal loss. So what are we worried about? God is
looking after us and yet we are full of anxiety! We trust ourselves to a
doctor because we suppose he knows his business. He orders an operation
which involves cutting away part of our body and we accept it. We are
grateful to him and pay him a large fee because we judge he would not
act as he does unless the remedy were necessary, and we must rely on his
skill. Yet we are unwilling to treat God in the same way! It looks as
if we do not trust His wisdom and are afraid He cannot do His job
properly. We allow ourselves to be operated on by a man who may easily
make a mistake -- a mistake which may cost us our life -- and protest
when God sets to work on us.'
