Let your will be fulfilled in me, Lord, as it pleases you! If you want me to suffer, give me the strength to endure it, and let it come! If you want me to be persecuted, sick, to suffer in poverty and humiliation, here I am, I do not turn my face away. My Father, I have no reason to turn my back on you. After all, your Son has consecrated not only the will of all but also mine to you, and it would not be right for me not to keep my word. However, in order to keep it, please grant me, Lord, the kingdom that your Son requested for me, and then deal with me as you wish, like a thing that belongs to you unreservedly.
(St. Teresa of Jesus, The Way of Perfection XXXII,10)
