Prayer of the Week - 11/11/12

I don't believe I've ever thought to thank you, God, for this wonderful friend.  I do thank you for creating her and letting her enrich my life this way.  Thank you for all the months we've known each other and the confidences and hope and troubles that we've shared.

Thank you for the understanding we bring to each other, for the patience we have with each other's faults, for the advice, and even the scoldings
 we are able to give each other without either of us taking offense.

Thank you for the help we have been to each other, in this way, and so many more.  Thank you that because of her I am a better, happier person and that she has grown as a person too because of me.

Thank you that she would give me anything in her power, time, money, work, possessions, encouragement, sympathy, whatever my need and that she knows I would be as quick to respond to whatever her needs might be.

Thank you that we can laugh together, cry together, rejoice together.  When we do come together it is always the same.

Lord, bless and keep her, this person you fashioned and filled with qualities that have meant so much to me.  Thank you, Lord, for my friend.

Prayer of the Week - 9/10/12

Prayer of Devotion


Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ, For all the benefits thou hast won for me, For all the pains and insults thou hast borne for me. O most merciful Redeemer, Friend, and Brother, May I know thee more clearly, Love thee more dearly, And follow thee more nearly: For ever and ever. Amen.

 

St. Richard Chichester (1197-1253)

Thought of the Day - 9/29/10

Lord, please help me today to uphold the standards You have set for our family, to enjoy my children as You do, and to truly know these precious souls that You have put in my care.  Amen.