Saturday, February 04, 2017
Lamentations
God, are you with me on this?
If you are, then why does it all hurt so much?
How much more of this burden do I have to bear
And how many lessons are there left before the promised land?
Even my closest has betrayed me
Making me feel like my decisions are wrong
That I don't really know what I am knowing
That Lord, truly how do I trust myself
That the decisions I make are sound
That what I see and think are relevant
I feel so deep
Feel so utterly raw
Oh Lord,
Have you abandoned me?
How could you bear to let your child go through so much pain?
yet another day of memories...
2/04/2017 10:52:00 AM
An Instrument of Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow 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 me 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.
(Attributed to St Francis of Assisi )