Paraphrasing by @2:50
[Universe] knows me and calls me by my name.
It has created me to do some definite service;
has committed some work to me
which has not been committed to another.
I have my mission—I never may know it in this life,
but told it in the next.
Somehow I am necessary for its purposes…
I have a part in this great work;
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection
between persons.
I am not created for naught. I shall do good,
I shall do good work;
I shall be an angel of peace, a speaker of truth
in my own place, while not intending it,
if I do but keep truth
and serve in my calling.
Therefore, I will trust.
Whatever, wherever I am,
I can never be thrown away.
If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve;
In perplexity, my perplexity may serve;
If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve.
My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be
necessary causes of some great end,
which is quite beyond us.
Nothing is in vain; My life may be prolonged,
It may be shortened;
[Universe] knows what It is about.
My friends may be taken away,
I may be thrown among strangers,
I may be made to feel desolate,
my spirits sinking, the future hidden from me—
still, [Universe] knows what It is about.…
Let me be a blind instrument. I ask not to see—
I ask not to know—I ask simply to be used.
Paraphrased from –John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1848