The Love of God

The love of God enfolds me 
The love of God surrounds me 
The love of God saturates me 
The love of God upholds me 
The love of God strengthens me 
The love of God comforts me 
The love of God cheers me 
The love of God restores me 
The love of God calms me 
The love of God consoles me 
The love of God guides me 
The love of God protects me 
The love of God cleanses me 
The love of God frees me 
The love of God fulfills me 
The love of God heals me 
The love of God uplifts me 
The love of God embraces me 
The love of God envelopes me 
The love of God fills me 
The love of God shines in me 
and eternally sustains me 
—Magdolene Mogyorosi, “The Love of God” 

An Act of Abandonment

O my God, I thank you and I praise
you for accomplishing your holy 
and all-lovable will without any regard for mine. 
With my whole heart, 
in spite of my heart, 
do I receive this cross I feared so much! 

It is the cross of Your choice, 
the cross of Your love. 
I venerate it; 
nor for anything in the world 
would I wish that it had not come, 
since You willed it. 

I keep it with gratitude and with joy, 
as I do everything that comes from Your hand;
and I shall strive to carry it without letting it drag, 
with all the respect 
and all the affection which Your works deserve. 

Amen.

By Saint Francis De Sales

Help Me

"I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!"
Mark 9:24