Monday
Have mercy on me, O God, according
to your steadfast love… I know my transgressions…
Psalm
51:1,3
Monday
Prayer
Frustrated and fatigued, I often wonder if I have anything
left to give anyone else. Oh Lord, the needs of my family can be emotionally
and spiritually overwhelming. Let your
strength renew me as I carry the crosses of caring for my family. Catch me when I am faint. Lead me when I am lost. You have entrusted me with so much by giving
me this cross to carry. Now breathe your
breath into my life, O God, and show me how to sacrifice myself for my
family. Amen.
Monday
Meditation
Your life is not for yourself. My life is not for myself. The deepest desires of you and me is to give
myself to others. That’s part of
me. Not just a part of my life, all of
me. I am created to give myself away. In my giving myself away I want to be a
fruitful person, not a successful person, not a rich person, not a person with
many results – to have a fruitful life.
Our lives bear fruit in the giving.
I am more and more aware that the deepest joy of the spiritual life is
precisely in giving myself, giving ourselves, in giving ourselves away. We can do it because we know that we are the
beloved who are blessed and broken, but that we were broken in order that we
could become a gift for the world.
-
Henri Nouwen
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