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Trishie
Guest
Our God, forgive my doubt when You appear to ignore my urgent intercession for others and myself. You are supreme love and goodness, therefore it is my lack of wisdom, exacerbated by human weakness and sorrow, that causes disillusion and doubt.
Even as I acknowledge that You love each person as Your favourite—I sometimes doubt the reality of Your personal love or may feel profoundly helpless to obtain assistance and blessings and graces for others or myself.
Pardon me those times when I feel isolated and abandoned in sorrow or powerlessness—for at such times I may have no trust or hope in You. Please forgive me, and pardon those of my dear ones and all who doubt Your power and mercy. Others’ needs may be so immediate and serious that I am grieved for their sake.
I sometimes fear that You are wanting in Your kindness when You move in Your more obscure and wise fashion because Your hidden action in the events of our lives sometimes appears of little comfort. In times of grief and heartache we humanly feel deep need for obvious alleviation, and for practical resolution of difficulty and anxiety. Sometimes, faith may be gravely tested, yet carry us through temptations against trust.
If I have doubted Your mercy in my sorrow, please accept my heartache and numerous tears as prayer for others, but also in reparation for my inappropriate and unjust response to Your seeming ‘inaction’. How immature my spirit, our God, when I feel anger or dismay, in my frustrated yearning for real help for genuine needs, difficulty and pain! I entreat You to allow no person to suffer for my personal lack of trust. Pardon me those times when I feel isolated and abandoned in sorrow or powerlessness—for at such times I may have no trust or hope in You
Please give me powerful faith and hope to obtain all things of You for others and self, making me a better vehicle of intercession and blessing for others. Let Your will be truly fulfilled in the lives of those I love and pray for, and in my own. Give me remembrance always that I need not plead for Your mercy but for the openness of our hearts to this great flood of mercy that awaits our welcome. October 1999
Saint Padre Pio wrote: “Pray, hope and do not worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” Jesus told Saint Gertrude that “Confidence [trust] alone easily obtains all things.” “It gives me great pleasure when persons hope great things from Me, and I will grant them more than they expect.” Thank You Jesus. Inspire my heart and mind to ask all You could hope and dream for in me, for mine and others’ souls and lives.
Even as I acknowledge that You love each person as Your favourite—I sometimes doubt the reality of Your personal love or may feel profoundly helpless to obtain assistance and blessings and graces for others or myself.
Pardon me those times when I feel isolated and abandoned in sorrow or powerlessness—for at such times I may have no trust or hope in You. Please forgive me, and pardon those of my dear ones and all who doubt Your power and mercy. Others’ needs may be so immediate and serious that I am grieved for their sake.
I sometimes fear that You are wanting in Your kindness when You move in Your more obscure and wise fashion because Your hidden action in the events of our lives sometimes appears of little comfort. In times of grief and heartache we humanly feel deep need for obvious alleviation, and for practical resolution of difficulty and anxiety. Sometimes, faith may be gravely tested, yet carry us through temptations against trust.
If I have doubted Your mercy in my sorrow, please accept my heartache and numerous tears as prayer for others, but also in reparation for my inappropriate and unjust response to Your seeming ‘inaction’. How immature my spirit, our God, when I feel anger or dismay, in my frustrated yearning for real help for genuine needs, difficulty and pain! I entreat You to allow no person to suffer for my personal lack of trust. Pardon me those times when I feel isolated and abandoned in sorrow or powerlessness—for at such times I may have no trust or hope in You
Please give me powerful faith and hope to obtain all things of You for others and self, making me a better vehicle of intercession and blessing for others. Let Your will be truly fulfilled in the lives of those I love and pray for, and in my own. Give me remembrance always that I need not plead for Your mercy but for the openness of our hearts to this great flood of mercy that awaits our welcome. October 1999
Saint Padre Pio wrote: “Pray, hope and do not worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.” Jesus told Saint Gertrude that “Confidence [trust] alone easily obtains all things.” “It gives me great pleasure when persons hope great things from Me, and I will grant them more than they expect.” Thank You Jesus. Inspire my heart and mind to ask all You could hope and dream for in me, for mine and others’ souls and lives.