{"id":4767,"date":"2010-08-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/08\/abandoned.html"},"modified":"2010-08-12T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T06:00:00","slug":"abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/08\/abandoned.html","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"
Father,
\n
I abandon myself into your hands;
 do with me what you will.
\n
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
\n
I am ready for all, I accept all.<\/p>\n

Let only your will be done in me,
\nand in all your creatures
–
\nI wish no more than this, O Lord.<\/p>\n

Into your hands I commend my soul:
\n
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,
\nfor I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,
\nto surrender myself into your hands without reserve,
\nand with boundless confidence,
\nfor you are my Father.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That beautiful Prayer of Abandonment by Charles de Foucauld is posted here,<\/a> at the blog of my New Zealand confrere Bosco Peters, who wonders if anyone knows the story behind it. <\/p>\n

Check out Bosco’s blog<\/a> for more — including this great quote of the great Cistercian martyr, which could be inscribed on the heart of every deacon (and a lot of other people, for that matter): <\/p>\n

\n“I would like to be sufficiently good that people would say, ‘If such is the servant, what must the Master be like?’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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