Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: O
Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness,
give us the sense of your presence, your love, and your strength. Help us to have perfect trust in your
protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry
us, for, living close to you, we shall see your hand, your purpose, your will
through all things.
~St.
Ignatius
Scripture Reading for the Day: Proverbs 3:5-6
Reading for Reflection:
Take your stand on the
power and trustworthiness of your God, and see how quickly all difficulties
will vanish before a steadfast determination to believe. Trust in the dark, trust in the light, trust
at night and trust in the morning, and you will find that the faith which may
begin by mighty effort, will end sooner or later by becoming the easy and
natural habit of the soul. (The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by
Hannah Whitall Smith)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: My Lord God, I have no idea where I am
going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it
will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am
following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe
that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that
desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from
that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road
though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I
may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are
ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
~Thomas
Merton
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