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God's Instrument

There is something incredible, almost ineffable, about interacting with another human being. What is actually happening here?! It is two spiritual souls — and thus immortal souls — coming into contact. Two souls, created directly by the hand of God and destined for an eternal life of infinite beatitude with Him, coming together to speak, to communicate, to connect. That is beautiful! Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange says, “It is never by chance that two immortal souls meet…be it that one only has the divine life and can, by its prayers, its attitude, its example, bring back the other to the right road which leads to eternity. It was not by chance that Joseph was sold by his brethren to the Ismaelite merchants. God had determined from all eternity that these merchants would pass at such and such an hour, not earlier, not later. I