The completion of creation through divine providence is not something that happens above and beyond us. God invites us to collaborate in the completion of creation. [307-308]
Man can reject God’s will. He does better, though, to become an instrument of God’s love. Mother Teresa during her lifetime strove to think in this way: “I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.” Although God works with us and through us also, nevertheless we must never mistake our own thinking, planning and doing for the working of God. God does not need our work, as though he would lack something without it.
