Beloved in God: I know and must confess with the prophet Jeremiah that the way of the human being does not lie in his own power; nor does it lie in the power of man to govern his own steps [Jer. 10:23]. The human heart undertakes also to do something for itself, but God directs and controls according to his pleasure. For I had always intended to remain alone in my barrel and cave and not at all to creep out into the light, not that I feared the light, but in order that I migh