Dear mom4truth,
I hope you will continue your presence on this prayer thread, my friend. You are helping us just as much as we are helping you, just by your being here.
As for the psalms, I try extra harder to find them for you specially since I know you like them. For many people, though, it seems I’m called to just post a simple … yet no less powerful for all that … “Hail Mary” … and part of the reason is I’m not as gifted with spontaneous prayer as some other prayer warriors here are.
Anyways, tonight I found a psalm for you, and I have gone to the chapel and prayed for you there as well.
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours:
Psalm 146 (147A)
The Lord’s goodness and power
Praise the Lord!
It is good to sing praise to our God;
it is a joy to sing his praises.
The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem:
he will call back Israel from exile.
He heals broken hearts
and binds up their wounds.
He counts all the stars;
he calls each of them by name.
Our God is great and great is his strength,
his wisdom is not to be measured.
The Lord supports the needy,
but crushes the wicked to the ground.
Sing out to the Lord in thanksgiving,
sing praise to our God on the harp.
He covers the sky with his clouds,
he makes rain to refresh the earth.
He makes grass grow on the hills,
and plants for the service of man.
He gives food to grazing animals,
and feeds the young ravens that call on him.
He takes no delight in the strength of the horse,
no pleasure in the strength of a man.
The Lord is pleased by those who honour him,
by those who trust in his kindness.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.