{"id":2134,"date":"2007-12-05T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/12\/hannah-storm-god-has-created-me-to-do-him-some-definite-service.html"},"modified":"2007-12-05T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T01:12:00","slug":"hannah-storm-god-has-created-me-to-do-him-some-definite-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/12\/hannah-storm-god-has-created-me-to-do-him-some-definite-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Storm: “God has created me to do Him some definite service”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Here’s something you don’t see every day: a blog post<\/a> from a television news anchor that is simply a Catholic prayer. <\/p>\n

It comes from my CBS colleague, Hannah Storm<\/a>, who is about to depart as co-anchor of CBS’s The Early Show:<\/p>\n

Hi everybody! Thanks so much for all your well wishes and supportive comments. I sure will miss being with you every morning. I have thought often over the last week about how God’s plan is different from my own… and how important it is to embrace that. Here’s one of my favorite prayers; I carry it around in my wallet:<\/p>\n

My Mission of Serving<\/p>\n

“God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission — I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in His — if, indeed, I fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham. Yet I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep his commandments and serve Him in my calling.<\/p>\n

Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve him. My sickness, or perplexity, or my sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain; He may prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about; He may take away my friends, He may throw me among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me-still He knows what He is about.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

– Venerable John Henry Newman <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It strikes me that this particular prayer would be especially apt for deacons, or anyone seeking to serve God’s church. <\/p>\n

FWIW: Hannah is an ’83 graduate of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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