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I prayed to God to surround me with people who can hold my hand as I lift up my staff as Moses did for the Israelites in battle. I asked the Lord three times for Him to remove the thorn in my flesh. Yet He chose not to—and said, “My grace is sufficient, for My power is made perfect in your weakness.” So He often just gave me the gift of Himself.
Draw us into your love, Christ Jesus: and deliver us from fear.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen
- The prayer of St. Francis
I love how God works through prayers. May my life be ever so saturated in prayers and Scripture that daily I may know, believe, and live Christ.
Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your fragrance wherever I go.
Flood my soul with Your Spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly, that my life may only be a radiance of Yours.
Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul.
Let them look up, and see no longer me, but only Jesus!
Stay with me and then I will begin to shine as You shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.
The light, O Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine.
Let me thus praise You in the way which You love best, by shining on those around me.
Let me preach without preaching, not by words but by my example, by the catching fore, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You.
Amen.
-Inspired by John Henry Cardinal Newman's own prayer, prayed by Mother Teresa daily.
