Abandonment to Divine Providence

Beautiful. Works well...but make sure the the size fits the filters you use. We use a larger filter for our machine and they do not fit in this. Luckily our pour over filters fit.

Container comes open and all the filters fall out

I love it. I have #2 size coffee filters and most holders are made for #4 claiming it fits both, but it's just too big for the #2 filters and this one is the best if you just want a holder for the #2

I found this book very wishy washy-it was hard to get hold of anything concrete. The author seems to be saying again and again 'abandon yourself to divine providence' without saying how you would do this. He says. 'The soul should only proceed according to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for if it were to act according to its own ideas it would make no progress,' but he does not tell how you can be sure you are following the Holy Spirit and not your own ideas masquerading as divine will. The author suggests several times that reading books will not help you whilst writing the same basic idea at length for you to read. He seems to be saying accept whatever happens to you as the will of God ( I may have got that wrong-the writing is not of the clearest) without qualifying this in any way.

This is not a long book that might deter readers by its size. It is a slim volume (114pp) which is well worth reading in small considered doses. Fortunately it is divided into many short sections. If you are the sort of person who likes to THINK, not necessarily meditate, I can recommend this. Every so often there is a real gem of a thought. Most people have fairly dull or routine lives, many have to spend a lot of their time doing chores, or other dull things. Has this dull time any value? Perhaps we waste hours of life in traffic jams nowadays - well De Caussade has thoughts on the ordinary frustrations of life. He suggests that they do indeed have value. Great value! His reasoning is simple and there is a warmth behind it which reflects someone who cares about ordinary folk. Remarkable for its time, this eighteenth century book has much to say to us in the modern world. It should be better known. Thoroughly recommended.

Jean-Pierre de Caussade was a French Jesuit writer and he urges the reader throughout this book: 'Let us go, then, let us run and fly to that ocean of love by which we are attracted! What are we waiting for? Let us start at once, let us lose ourselves in God, even in His heart, to become inebriated with the wine of His charity.'Basically much of the book is about emptying ourselves of self will and allowing ourselves to be led through life by the divine will and live in the present moment. Acceptance of what life throws at us is key and we are to see that within each moment - good or bad - there is a lesson for us.Very, very simply he is saying allow God in to help you realise who you are. Let Him show you the way. Listen to what the divine lover wants to see in your life. Abandon yourself to the divine will. Let go. Seek the Creator and find out what your true nature is.

For those who would like to make strides in their spiritual life this is book which cannot go unread. Every sentence is a universe. The work is deep yet simple. It offers practical as well as theoretical (theological) insights who are both precious and rewarding. So much so that one excuses the innumerable misprints which this edition has and the dismal artwork of the text. However, if one is not prepared to allow these details go, then one is also not prepared to read this booklet since it is about substance not frivolity. After reading this work one fully understands why it is considered to be a major contribution to spiritual life, practice and holiness.

Used for personal spiritual development, this short volume, lives up to its great reputation. Used for a couple of hundred years, it's solid wisdom is as pertinent to today's modern ways, as in it's original days- probably more so- as modern people in this post Christian era flounder in search of meaning and happiness in their lives.