I'm sorry I didn't post anything yesterday due to illness...

St. Jane de Chantal often made acts of abandonment to God's Will. This was difficult for her, because she had a very ardent nature and naturally wanted to run things. But, while doing everything that she was supposed to do, she abandoned everything else to God. She once wrote to St. Francis de Sales:

"Ought not the soul, after it has thus surrendered itself into Our Lord's Hands, lose sight, as far as possible, of everything else by the continual remembrance of God, and rely upon Him alone with sincere and full confidence?"

Her saintly director replied:

"Yes, you ought, for God's sake, to forget whatever is foreign to God, and rest in peace under His Divine guidance."

These quotes were recorded by Monseigneur Bougaud, Bishop of Laval, in his St. Chantal and the Foundation of the Visitation, 1895.

(Tomb of St. Jane de Chantal, Annecy, France)