7. — On the Providence of God.
"For all Thy ways are prepared, and in Thy Providence Thou hast placed Thy judgments." — Judith ix. 5.
Let us place our trust in the Providence of God. Let us cut off all those anxieties which serve only to torture our minds uselessly, since, whether we make ourselves uneasy or not, it is God alone who sends us all these things, and who may increase them until He sees they disturb us less.
Of what use would all our cares, anxieties, and troubles be to us if they only served to torment us, and made us suffer the pain of having had them?
Our cares are only the cares of an individual, those of God include the whole world. The more we trouble ourselves with our own interests, the less will God interfere.
He who is invited to a splendid banquet does not trouble himself about what he shall eat, and he who goes to a limpid spring does not make himself uneasy, for he knows he will be able to appease his thirst.
Since, then, we have the Providence of God, which is richer than the most magnificent feast and more inexhaustible than the purest spring, do not be uneasy — do not cherish any misgivings.
