Opening Prayer: O God, our loving Father, let me rest in the
silence and security of your strong and loving arms this day. Help me to trust you completely—and to be
occupied with nothing else but you. Let
me find my hope in you, both now and forevermore. Amen.
Scripture: 1 Peter 5:6-11
Journal: Where do you usually cast your anxiety? What is the typical result? What does it mean to cast all of our anxieties
on him? Do you really believe he
cares? Do you really believe he can be
trusted with them?
Reflection: And remember, there are two things which are more
utterly incompatible than even oil and water, and these two are trust and
worry. Would you call it trust if you
should give something into the hands of a friend to attend to for you, and then
should spend your nights and days in anxious thought and worry as to whether it
would be rightly and successfully done?
And can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of
your soul into the hands of the Lord, if day after day, and night after night
you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the
matter? When a believer really trusts
anything, he ceases to worry about that thing which he has trusted. And when he worries, it is plain proof that
he does not trust. (The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah
Whitall Smith)
Prayer
Closing 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
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