Purify My Heart

Have you ever prayed that? Purify my heart.
Has God answered that prayer for you? Not an easy process, is it? Quite painful in fact. Yet when the healing takes place after the fire, how can we not be thankful! Perhaps the next time we pray something similar, it is with a little more trepidation. Yet we learn to love the Refiner's fire, for it is through that experience that we draw close to him, that we become more like him.
Purify my heart, Lord. Purify my heart.

World Peace Prayer

Lead me from death to life,
from falsehood to truth;
lead me from despair to hope,
from fear to trust;
lead me from hate to love,
from war to peace.
Let peace fill our heart,
our world, our universe. Amen.