I think I find most help in trying to look on all interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one’s work. Then one can feel that perhaps one’s true work—
one’s work for God
—consists in doing some trifling haphazard thing that has been thrown into one’s day. It is not waste of time, as one is tempted to think, it is the most important part of the work of the day,—the part one can best offer to God.
After such a hindrance, do not rush after the planned work; trust that the time to finish it will be given sometime, and keep a quiet heart about it.
Annie Keary
Annie Keary was born on March 3, 1825 in Bilton, near Wetherby in Yorkshire, England, to William Keary, an Irish clergyman and former army chaplain, and his wife Lucy Plumer. She was educated at home and her father gave her much of the information about Ireland that she would later use in her writing. She was in frail health for much of her life and died at age 54 on her birthday in 1879.
