Chapter 64: The election of an abbot or abbess (paragraphs 3-4)

They should not be trouble-makers nor given to excessive anxiety nor should they be too demanding and obstinate, nor yet interfering and inclined to suspicion so as never to be at rest. (From para. 4 of Ch. 64 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

My job is not to be busy about controlling people or events, but to "speak truth to power", as the Quakers say. May I be of service to others by allowing "the indwelling Spirit of Truth [to] continually influence and form" me (paraphrased from John Main, Silence & Stillness, p. 239).