Private Prayer

“My failure to be true even to my own accepted standards,

My self-deception in face of temptation,

My choosing of the worse when I know the better,

O Lord, forgive.

My failure to apply to myself the standard of conduct I demand of others,

My complacence towards wrongs that do not touch my own case 

and my over-sensitiveness to those that do,

My slowness to see the good in my fellows and the see the evil in myself,

My hardness of heart towards my neighbors faults and my readiness to make allowance for my own… 

O Lord, forgive.”

The Breastplate Prayer

I arise today through God's strength to pilot me:

God's might to uphold me,

God's wisdom to guide me,

God's eye to look before me,

God's ear to hear me,

God's word to speak for me,

God's hand to guard me,

God's way to lie before me,

God's shield to protect me.

Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,

Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,

Christ on my right, Christ on my left,

Christ when I lie down,

Christ when I sit down,

Christ when I arise,

Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,

Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,

Christ in every eye that sees me,

Christ in every ear that hears me.

~Saint Patrick

 Today we talked about Saint Patrick and how he went back to the same people who had kidnapped him and enslaved him to share God's love with them.  He was Christ in the eyes of those that knew him and he lived his life with the perspective of God's eye going before him.  These are the God's Eyes that the children made today.

Nothing is Off Limits to You

The idea that nothing is off limits to God in my life - that He has the right and the permission from me (not that He needs it) to move and do His work - is my heart's passion - my constant prayer.

Prayer of My Heart

This brings me to tears - how it is the cry of my heart!