The mind's wisdom says to whatever is happening: 'You are exactly what I was looking for.' Whatever the present moment brings, I will embrace it as the right material for both my reasoning mind and my desire to help others. The key point is this: everything that happens can either honor God or benefit people. Every event in the world naturally serves either God or humanity. Nothing is truly new or difficult to handle — everything is familiar and manageable.
and her discretion to the present object; thou art that, which I sought for. For whatsoever it be, that is now present, shall ever be embraced by me as a fit and seasonable object, both for my reasonable faculty, and for my sociable, or charitable inclination to work upon. And that which is principal in this matter, is that it may be referred either unto the praise of God, or to the good of men. For either unto God or man, whatsoever it is that doth happen in the world hath in the ordinary course of nature its proper reference; neither is there anything, that in regard of nature is either new, or reluctant and intractable, but all things both usual and easy.