I am currently reading a book by Paul Thigpen called Last Words, Final Thoughts of Catholic Saints & Sinners.  I would like to consider today a statement made by St. Thomas More while he was awaiting his execution.  He was reflecting on the life of Joseph of the Old Testament and Joseph’s response to his brothers who had sold him into slavery.  As we know, Joseph saw all that had happened to him in the Providence of God.  More wrote this just before he died:

Give me your grace, good Lord . . . to think my greatest enemies my best friends; for the brothers of Joseph could never have done so much good with their love and favor as they did him with their malice and hatred.