Faced with increasing violence in Guatemala, family and friends all wanted Bl. James Miller to come home. They feared for his life and wanted him to be safe.
Bl. James Miller's radical trust in God helped him remain faithful to the people of Guatemala and proved to be his key to holiness.
However, instead of fleeing from the situation, Bl. James Miller firmly believed that God was calling him to stay and trusted in God's providence.
He wrote about this exact theme in one of his last letters before his death, published in a local newspaper in 1982.
Instead of giving in to the temptation to abandon his flock in Guatemala, he stayed with him, trusting God above all things.
He also wrote in the same letter, "'God's ways are not man's ways,' says the Bible."
Bl. James Miller's life is a powerful example of trust in God's divine providence. If we want to unlock the secret to holiness in our own lives, we can look to Bl. Miller and see how God challenges us to trust in him no matter what may happen to us.