The World as we knew it is gone, and for what feels like such a long time we have experienced so much hardship during this Pandemic. As we prepare to walk into the future we pray for the “new normal” to come. May our hearts be unified in You more than ever. May the tender […]
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I pray for: Strength – that God gives them the strength to do what they need to do each day. Courage – that they will be brave as they face the challenges that are before them. Peace – that their hearts will be calm and peaceful as they go through their day and in their […]
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Teach my children how to be patient and kind to each other. Do not let envy or pride take root in their hearts. Keep them from dealing rudely or angrily with each other. Help them forgive wholly and completely not letting grudges or bitterness sour their hearts against each other. Help my children protect their […]
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Inspire my children to work together for the good of the other, living and growing in harmony each day. Help them be compassionate and humble in the way they do life together. When squabbles arise, spur them toward reconciliation so the friction may be dissolved quickly and in ways that benefit both parties. Help them […]
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Thank You for each of my children. I pray that You would give them a desire to protect the bond of unity among themselves. Help them be devoted to each other in brotherly love and honor one another above themselves.
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“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. […]
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When our lofty words of love have been emptied of their meaning,When our borders and computer screens have erected impenetrable walls,When our minds are so quick to conflate “other” with “enemy,”How will we find our common humanity?It’s never too late to make an earnest and tender start.May we remove from our pockets the stones we […]
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As he sat by the river,the eyes of his understanding began to be opened;not that he saw any vision,but he understood and learnt many things,both spiritual matters and matters of faith and of scholarship,and this with so great an enlightenmentthat everything seemed new to him. – Ignatius of Loyola, The Autobiography
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There is nothing I can give you which you have not;But there is much, very much, that while I cannot give,You can take.No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.Take heaven!No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.Take peace!The gloom of the world […]
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Dear Lord and Father of humankind,Forgive our foolish ways;Reclothe us in our rightful mind,In purer lives Thy service find,In deeper reverence, praise. Drop Thy still dews of quietness,Till all our strivings cease;Take from our souls the strain and stress,And let our ordered lives confessThe beauty of Thy peace. Breathe through the heats of our desireThy […]
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