Prayers - God of Gifts

GOD OF GIFTS

Dear Lord God,
King of my Life, Lord of Gifts and Glory,
Spirit of Wonder and Majesty of Hope,
Jesus of Simplicity and Obedient Son,
thank you for my birth and my being,
for thinking of me, creating me,
and bringing me into this wondrous world
healthy and well-formed.

Please reserve a special place in heaven
for those who lose their lives before they are born or do not survive the earliest days of infancy before the age of reason.
I know You will shelter these sinless innocents, who have not known you
in this life, and hold them safe within
Your Sacred heart.

Thank You, too, for the healthy babies who grow steadily to lovable children, irrepressible teens, and admirable adults.

Thank You for me.

Thank You for my body, my fingers
and my feet, my arms, my legs, my senses,
and my ability to touch, and my strength
to walk.

Please send graces down on all those who face life impaired, misshapen, maimed, or unable to move without assistance.

Thank You for my eyes which see the splendors of the sunrise and enable me to read books and know faces.

Please give steely fortitude to those who cannot see and to those who help them meet the dark challenges of their sightless lives.

Give them great confidence and energy
to navigate their way, and take all bitterness from their hearts.
Give them sacred secret inner vision
to brighten their outlook and sustain
their hopes.

Thank You for enabling me to hear
the voices of my family and my friends,
and for my ability to hear all the music of the world, the cacophony of the city
and the stillness of the countryside,
the mew of kittens and the barking
of puppies.

Take bitterness away from all who cannot hear
and give them patient teachers
and deliverance from all depression as they imagine birdsong and thunder, playground laughter, symphonies and the soft splashing of spring rain.

Thank You for the quality of my mind
and the reach of my imagination, my education, my ability to think, to understand argumentation, to imagine the unseen,
and to continue to learn.

Please give special courage and pleasures
to those whose intelligence is limited
and whose ability to comprehend
is incomplete.

Let simplicity and trust, good caretakers
and wise aides and teachers, bring them
great happiness.

Thank You for companionship and friends
who bring joy and support and love
into my life every day.

Please give courage to the lonely,
and confidence to those who do not have relatives and friends to offer daily love, courage and support. Make them Your special children and guard them from fear, loneliness and depression.

Thank You for giving me Your Gospel,
my faith, and the solace of Your constant,
radiant, supportive presence in my life.

Please let Your Word be spread ever wider
to receptive listeners and new apostles.
Please open the minds of those who live
in doubt or under the tyranny of false creeds
or who have yet to believe in the supernatural.

Save them from arrogance and cold cynicism,
false sophistication, bitter complication
in their lack of godly faith, humble hope
and generous charity of spirit.

Open their hearts and the eyes of their minds
to the grandeur of Your glory,
the graciousness of Your gifts,
and the saving grace of Your tender Word.

Thank You, thank You, thank you, God of Splendor, King of Innocence, Lord of Love
and Light, for Your innumerable gifts to me.

Please give me wisdom to understand
Your will and to use the talents You have given me better and better, and ultimately
to the very best of my human ability.

Gird me Lord, in the glowing garment
of obedience, and the Lamb's wool cloak
of humility. Show me the bright map of faith
and give me the oaken staff of hope
for my life's journey.

Then, in my final hour on earth,
send my guardian, Your bright angel
with my Patron, Anthony and a band of saints
and cherub harpists and an angel choir
to lead me on the radiant path of golden light to the ivory portals of Your heavenly palaces and then into the splendid shelter
of Your ever-saving Sacred Heart.

All this I pray to You my God in thanks
and trust, and fervent, burning love,
my precious Lord, my only true Hope,
and my eternal King,

Amen

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