In the hands of the Craftsman
March 12, 2008, 3:25 pm
Posted by Joseph A. Komonchak
I am needy and poor; the Lord will care for me (Ps 39:18)…. The Lord cares for you, so feel safe. He carries you who made you; don’t fall from the hands of your Craftsman. If you fall from them, you will break. You remain in his hands if you will the good. Say: “My God wanted me, and he himself will carry me and hold me.” Throw yourself upon him. Don’t think this is a foolish thing to do, as if you were falling headlong. Don’t think that way. God said: I fill heaven and earth (Jer 23:24). Nowhere is he absent from you. Don’t you be absent from him. Don’t be absent from yourself. The Lord cares for me. (Augustine, Enar. in Ps 39, 27)



This scriptural expression is associated with St. Francis of Assisi. St. Bonaventure refers to it in his Life of St. Francis, and it is also part of the liturgy for his feast day in the Roman Liturgy (I think it is the introit but I’m not sure).