The Woman They Could Not Silence

by Kate Moore

Overnight, her favorite saying had come to her: “Duties are ours, events God’s.”1 There was simply no point in dwelling darkly on what had happened, nor in worrying for the future. Both were part of God’s plan for her, and it would have been impudent to “pretend to be wiser than God, by feeling that it would have been better to have had things my way.”2 Instead, she decided, her duty was to focus on what she could do practically, in the here and now, to honor both God and her own principles.