God be in my head and in my understanding.
God be in my eyes and in my looking.
God be in my mouth and in my speaking.
God be in my heart and in my thinking.
God be at my end and at my departing.
-Sarum Book of Hours, 1514
Category Archives: For Livin’ Life
be yourself
Be your genuine self.
Then people will know you as you really are…
Let your life point the way to the soure,
and God himself will welcome.
-Jerusalem Community Rule of Life
save me from wasting this day-
O Lord, my God, what is Thy will for me today?
What task hast Thou before me?
What opportunity hast Thou placed in my way?
Open mine eyes that I may discover Thy Will!
Save me from wasting this new day!
May I turn it into eternal profit!
-Dr. J. H. Jowett
rest
O God, we turn to Thee as little children, wearied with the day, turn home.
We are wearied with the conflict of life, its burdens, its sore defeats, its perplexities, and disappointment,
and sometimes we grow weary with what we call its pleasures and its successes.
We turn to Thee for rest.
Open Thine arms, we pray, that we may rest in Thee;
O take us to Thy heart! Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
Amen.
-Ralph Cushman, Pocket Prayer Book, 1941
…the wake of all the rushing
“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I’ve ever gained from being in a hurry.
But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing….
Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.”
― Ann Voskamp
life itself
Jesus Christ isn’t the way of life.
He is Life itself.
-My Dad (he possibly could have picked it up from another source)
peace prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in self-forgetting that we find;
And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life.
-Amen.
-Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226)
covenant prayer
I am no longer my own, but thine.
Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed for thee or laid aside for thee,
exalted for thee or brought low for thee.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and heartily yield all things to thy pleasure and disposal.
And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
thou art mine, and I am thine.
So be it.
And the covenant which I have made on earth,
let it be ratified in heaven.
Amen
-John Wesley (1703–1791)
a prayer to the spirit
Breathe into me Holy Spirit,
that all my thoughts may be holy.
Move in me, Holy Spirit,
that my work, too, may be holy.
Attract my heart, Holy Spirit,
that I may love only what is holy.
Strengthen me, Holy Spirit,
that I may defend all that is holy.
Protect me, Holy Spirit,
that I always may be holy.
-St. Augustine
receive
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding
and my entire will,
All I have and call my own.
You have given all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace.
That is enough for me.
-St. Ignatius
peacocks for pilgrims 