from Ann

For the sake of brevity, I quote only a bit of the whole most excellent and convicting chapter seven of One Thousand Gifts in which she quotes Jean-Pierre Caussade:

You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.