{"id":262,"date":"2010-09-20T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=262"},"modified":"2010-09-19T20:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T18:18:39","slug":"when-i-reflect-on-it-i-am-convinced-that-it-so-pleases-god-to-put-an-end-to-my-indecisiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"WHEN I REFLECT ON IT, I AM CONVINCED THAT IT SO PLEASES GOD TO PUT AN END TO MY INDECISIVENESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Having been pushed by God\u2019s grace to finally make his decision to start a group of missionaries, Eugene now plunges himself into a flurry of activity to make his dream become a reality, dramatically portrayed in terms of\u00a0 having \u201ca trowel in one hand and a sword in the other\u201d to build a new reality and also to fight opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting is his allusion to the Israelites rebuilding the city of Jerusalem after the Exile \u2013 after the exile of the Church caused by the Revolution and Napoleon, Eugene understood the aim of his shared ministry as one of restoration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>When I reflect on it, I am convinced that is how God wants to put an end to my indecisiveness.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>And in such a way that I am up to my eyes in it! I assure you that in such circumstances I am quite another man. You would no longer call me a stick-in-the mud<\/strong> [<em>ed. French<\/em>: cul de plomb \u2013 <em>a rear end of lead that is too heavy to move<\/em>] <strong>if you were to see how I fly around. I am practically up to your standard in acting with so much authority I move carefully though I have not a moment of let-up and yet willingly go ahead nonetheless.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>It is nearly two months now that I fight on at my own expense, sometimes openly, sometimes discreetly. With trowel in one hand and sword in the other, I am like the good Israelites rebuilding the city of Jerusalem. And my pen is busy. I dare not tell you how much I have written since being involved in this affair&#8230;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong> <\/strong>Letter to Forbin Janson, 23 October 1815, O.W. VI n.5<\/h5>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been pushed by God\u2019s grace to finally make his decision to start a group of missionaries, Eugene now plunges himself into a flurry of activity to make his dream become a reality, dramatically portrayed in terms of\u00a0 having \u201ca &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-foundation-of-omi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}