If all that I do can become more and more an expression of my participation in God’s life of total giving and receiving in love, everything else will be blessed and will lose its fragmented quality. This does not mean that everything will become easy and harmonious. There will still be much agony, but when ­connected with God’s own agony, even my agony can lead to life. Henri Nouwen The Road to Daybreak (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2013)I bring before you all that troubles me, my failings, errors and exaggerations, my trials and sorrows and also my rebellion and bitterness, my whole heart, my whole life, which you know better than I. I place it all in the faithful hands which you have stretched out to the world in my Saviour. Take me as I am, raise me up and together with al