Letting Go of Outcomes, Adversaries, and Anxious Love with St. Catherine of Siena, by M.C. Holbrook

In the biography of St. Catherine, we hear that this holy saint once complained to God with sorrow and frustration that her prayers and offerings could not prevent the loss of salvation for certain souls. In her great anguish, God responded with perhaps the most famous quote of all time attributed to her Dialogue with the Lord:

“Daughter, thou art she who is not. I am He who is.”

In other words, God answered Catherine’s prayer by showing her the purpose of her anguish: to teach Catherine to abandon her self-will and to surrender instead to the will of God. There could be no greater exercise than to trust in the goodness and mercy of the Lord, even in the face of our most challenging trials. …

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