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The following is a beautiful prayer I found by Brother Roger, who founded the Taize Community as an attempt to open ways of healing the divisions between Christians. The prayer is from the book “Seeking the Heart of God: Reflections on Prayer” by Mother Teresa and Brother Roger:
Don’t worry if you know so little about praying. Foundering worry has never been a Gospel path. “No one can add a single day to their life by worrying about it … I give you my peace … do not let your heart be troubled and afraid.”
Fears and anxieties are part of our human condition, immersed as we are in societies that are wounded and shaken. Every human being, every believer, journeys, creates and suffers in these societies, and can experience inner impulses of revolt, sometimes of hatred and of domination.
By His Holy Spirit, the Risen Christ transfigures all that is most disconcerting in you. He reaches what was out of reach. All forms of pessimism that you harbor about yourself melt away; you can do away with subjective impressions.
An imperceptible inner transformation, the transfiguration of your being, continues your whole life long. It makes each day God’s own today. It is, already on this earth, the beginning the resurrection, the dawning of a life that has no end.
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posted July 28, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Wow! That was a beautiful prayer, indeed. Thanks, Therese, for finding this and sharing with us.
posted July 30, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I talk to God everyday, He has blessed me with so much. I want so much to know him, But I don’t feel I am good enough, I keep asking for forgiveness, But Then I do something thats wrong ( like take money to help my shop )I always pay it back, and I know how bad it is doing it and I feel so bad about it, But I do it anyway. How can I ask God to forgive me. I’m not going to do it again and I know that, I feel it in my heart. But I fear lossing my shop and it was God that got it for me,I know this. So much is going on in my life right now, my dog died , the person I have lived with off and on for 10 years, and who I have forgiving alot of pain for,forgiving the hateful works, the hitting me, getting drunk, acts like I’m not here anymore, I can not do anything right, She mocks me about God, and how I feel about being right with him. About going to chruch, and trying to do good with the shop. Apart of me does not want give up, But then the other side know’s it’s time to leave, I pray about this, what should I do God?? I don’t know what to do anymore.