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business, and because he was lame and could not go
about the boat but by rolling himself over the casks.
That, however, he gave himself no uneasiness about it,
nor about the purchase of the wine. That he said to
GOD, It was His business he was about, and that he afterward found it very well performed. That he had been
sent into Auvergne, the year before, upon the same account; that he could not tell how the matter passed,
but that it proved very well.
So, likewise, in his business in the kitchen (to which
he had naturally a great aversion), having accustomed
himself to do everything there for the love of GOD, and
with prayer, upon all occasions, for His grace to do his
work well, he had found everything easy, during fifteen
years that he had been employed there. -
That he was very well pleased with the post he was
now in; but that he was as ready to quit that as the
former, since he was always pleasing himself in every
condition by doing little things for the love of GOD.
That with him the set times of prayer were not different from other times; that he retired to pray, according to the directions of his superior, but that he did not
want such retirement, nor ask for it, because his greatest business did not divert him from GOD.
That, as he knew his obligation to love GOD in all
things, and as he endeavored so to do, he had no need
of a director to advise him, but that he needed much a
confessor to absolve him. That he was very sensible
of his faults, but not discouraged by them; that he confessed them to GOD, but did not plead against Him to
excuse them. When he had so done, he peaceably resumed his usual practice of love and adoration.
