SANDS

Jesus:

Like grains of sand
Please let each of my individual decisions and acts cooperate in your Divine plan.

Accept each movement of my will
as an act of harmony and homage to you.
Make me generous in helping others.
Stop me in my tracks to hear their needs.

Please forgive my shortcomings
as the hours pass this day.
Let me feel Your presence.
Let me see You in others.
Make me brave for You.
Make me honest for You.
Make me see what You want me to do.
Make me strong and energetic for Your work.

In every situation, my Jesus,
Help me to be sensitive to the needs
to all your sons and daughters,
my brothers and sisters:
Let me be strong when they need support.
Let me hear their hearts as well as their words.

Make me attentive when they need to talk.
Keep me sensitive when they need care.
Keep me patient when they are quarrelsome.

Make me available when they need help.
Make me supportive when the are desperate.
Make me wise when they need counsel.
Help me be reassuring when they are afraid.

Keep me ever aware that our days on this earth
are slipping away like grains of sand
in an hour-glass, and that our salvation,
earned in this life, depends upon each other
as well as ourselves.

Let me always see Your light
in each of my fellow travelers on this good earth
as the sands of time descend beneath us.
Let us together worship You
throughout the minutes and the hours
and the days and years,
until we may attain the bright joy of eternity.

All this I pray to You my timeless, eternal God.

Amen.

(c) 1984-2011 - Donn B. Murphy

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