Continuing from a previous post, Patricia R. Holland wrote:
Catherine Marshal, whose writings I have come to admire because of her complete trust in God, has written of a moment in her life when she was full of self-dissatisfaction, doubts, questions, and had great fears about her worthiness and continued usefulness to God. She said she urgently asked for his help, and these words of complete comfort came: “Thou art my child Catherine. Rest in love. . . . Stop asking so many questions. Stop this probing, taking your spiritual temperature. Does the Lord want me to do this? Or that? Is this right? This is the source of confusion you are feeling.
“You are My child, My disciple. I accepted you long ago — as you are growing. “You are still accepted. . . .
“The nervous probing is Satan’s doing, to unsettle you, to confuse you, to knock you off the base of your belief. . . . “Be not afraid. [My] joy will sweep away your fear and uncertainties.” (A Closer Walk [New York: Avon 1987], p.132.)
