HOPE AND RESILIENCY

"You sanctify what you are grateful for!"

- Anthony De Mello, S.J.

Surely, all art is the result of one's having lived in danger,
of having gone through all experience all the way to the end,
where no one can go further...
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

PRAYER

Lord, teach us always to recognize your greatness, to ponder on our treasures, 
and to draw strength from our daily blessings,
 especially during our most trying times.

Guide our sometimes weary hearts 
to trust in your abiding presence 
and in your great plans for us (Jer 29:11)!

"For I know the plans I have for you - it is Yahweh who speaks - 
plans for peace not disaster, reserving a future full of hope for you." 
Jeremiah 29:11

Extend your arms in welcome to the future.

The best is yet to come!

-Anthony de Mello, SJ- 

Let us pray that we may allow God to continually draw us closer into this loving union that we deeply long for. That we may trust, grow and blossom as we become deeply united with God in this ever expanding Oneness of Love. 

Let us trust that through God's grace, 

we  may then become transformed to become more loving, gracious, compassionate and justice oriented persons, and thus, become partakers of God's creative change in our broken world!

PRAYER OF ABANDONMENT

Take , Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding
and my eternal will - all that I have 
and call my own.

You have given all to me.
To you,  Lord, I return it.

Everything is yours; 
do with with it what you will
Give me only your love and your grace,
That is enough for me.

-St Ignatius of Loyola - 

 TRUST IN GOD

...trust in the slow work of God

We are quite naturally impatient in everything

to reach the end without delay.

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown,

something new...

And so it is with us...

Do not try to force... as though you could be today what time

(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your good )

will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit

gradually forming within you will be.

Give Our Lord the benefit of believing

that his hand is leading you,

and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself

in suspense and incomplete.

-Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, SJ-