Some Favourite Prayers
'The Lord bless thee and keep thee.
The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and keep thee:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee
and give thee peace.'
-The Bible - Numbers 6 verses 24-26
The Serenity Prayer
(attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr)
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference.
A Prayer attributed to Richard of Chichester
Day by day, O Lord, three things I pray:
To see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly,
follow thee more clearly,
day by day.
A Prayer
by Christina Rosetti
Lord seek us, Lord find us
In Thy patient care,
Be Thy love before us, behind us
Lest he bait a snare,
Lest he forge a chain to bind us,
Lest he speak us fair,
Turn not from us, call to mind us,
Find, embrace us, hear.
Be Thy love before us, behind us,
Round us everywhere.
A Prayer
by Mary Stewart
Keep us, O God, from pettiness;
let us be large in thought,in word,in deed.
Let us be done with faultfinding
and leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretenses
and meet each other, face to face,
without self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgment
and always generous.
Let us take time for all things;
make us to grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach us to put in action our better impulses
-straightforward and unafraid.
Grant that we may realize it is
the little things of life that create difficulties;
that in the big things of life we are as one.
Oh, Lord, let us not forget to be kind.
Amen
My Most Favourite Prayer
(by St.Francis of Assisi)
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred,let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console,
not so much to be understood as to understand,
not so much 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 dying that we awake to eternal life.
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21 May 2002.
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