 Soon afterward, the saint decided to make a job change that required him to move from North Africa to Rome, Italy. This major life decision was to have important consequences for his spiritual journey. He had quite practical reasons for making that decision, but as it turns out, God had his own long-term reasons for setting up Augustine this way. No doubt many of us as well can remember important life decisions that we ourselves have made with a similar outcome. Coming back, we can see God's hand in it all, even though at the time we may have been clueless about his will. Augustine recalls, You were working then within me, so that I was persuaded to go to Rome and teach there rather than at Carthage. How I was persuaded, I will not pass by in my confession to you, since in these matters too, we find the deepest recesses of your work and your mercy most near at hand to meditate upon and to proclaim.