A prayer

 

O

ur Father,

 

We bring you every facet of our human condition.  We commit our lives and all that they are, to you.  We bring you our failures, our anxiety, our fears.  We also bring you, ever, our frail holiness.  Give us courage to face the wretched parts of ourselves, always bringing them into the light of your mercy.

From the rich storehouse of your goodness, you have given us so much;  we know a measure of every lovely, divine attribute because you endow our surrendered souls with yourself..

Our heads are full of dreams;  our hands are full of chattels.  Lord, we offer to you the things which are most important to us.  Sometimes they obscure our connection to you.  We cling to their importance.  But the shadow of the cross will always fall on us;  we are your people.  Help us to live with a clear, uncluttered vision of the things which you hold dear.  S Starr

 

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