God our heavenly Father, when the thought of you wakes in our hearts, let its awakening not be like a startled bird that flies about in fear. Instead, let it be like a child waking from sleep with a heavenly smile. Soren Kierkegaard
Search me O God and know my heart Test me and know my thoughts See if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
Let us pray for our sisters and brothersthat our loving God will lead them in the path of love,that God’s word shall be a lamp to their feet,that they may move with courage before God’s face.
If I say ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me and the light around me become night’ even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend. Dorothy Day
Thanks be to you O God that I have risen this day To the rising of this life itself. May it be a day of blessing, O God of every gift, A day of new beginnings given. Help me to avoid every sin And the source of every sin to forsake And as the mist
I prayed, and Wisdom was given to me.I pleaded and the spirit of Wisdom came to me.I preferred her to scepter and throneand deemed riches nothing in comparison with her.Beyond health and beauty I loved her,and I chose to have her rather than the lightbecause her radiance never ceases. For in her is a spiritintelligent,
Blessed Be Your Way Blessed Be Your Way May God to whom nothing is hidden and to whom you belong give you blessing, salvation and peace in the days he grants you on earth.
A Rune of Hospitality A rune of hospitality I saw a stranger today I put food for him in the drinking place And music in the listening place. In the Holy Name of the Trinity He blessed myself and his house My food and my family. And the lark said in her warble Often, often,