When God seems far away.

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Loving God please give us the grace to remain faithful when You seem far and disinterested.
Please help us to persevere though trials and losses that may shake our trust in You as attentive, loving God.

Yet, our God, how can we know what further dangers and evils might befall us or what good may be lost without Your grace and protection?

Saint Therese asked that if a father protects his child from breaking his leg, does he love him less than a father who allowed his fall but took tender care afterwards? We cannot know all good that has occurred or evil that might have happened had You not protected and blessed us. Thank You for safeguarding us!

Pleading for strength and grace, I choose to continue following You for others’ sake as much as for mine. In Your loving mercy let this choice endure and triumph. Please grant that it will and that Your blessings will fulfil Your desires in my life and within the lives of those whom I love and serve as Your instrument and witness.

Loving God please may Your will be fulfilled in and through me even when You seem far from me and from those I love.
I continue to hope that You will restore experience of love in my life and theirs
 
Trishie said:
Loving God please give us the grace to remain faithful when You seem far and disinterested.
Please help us to persevere though trials and losses that may shake our trust in You as attentive, loving God.

Yet, our God, how can we know what further dangers and evils might befall us or what good may be lost without Your grace and protection?

Saint Therese asked that if a father protects his child from breaking his leg, does he love him less than a father who allowed his fall but took tender care afterwards? We cannot know all good that has occurred or evil that might have happened had You not protected and blessed us. Thank You for safeguarding us!

Pleading for strength and grace, I choose to continue following You for others’ sake as much as for mine. In Your loving mercy let this choice endure and triumph. Please grant that it will and that Your blessings will fulfil Your desires in my life and within the lives of those whom I love and serve as Your instrument and witness.

Loving God please may Your will be fulfilled in and through me even when You seem far from me and from those I love.
I continue to hope that You will restore experience of love in my life and theirs
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Let’s pray together.:grouphug:
 
Lord please may we all feel You close to us Amen

Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
 
Great Prayers Trishie 🙂

You should write a prayer book. The meaning they convey is so powerful and profound.

Merciful Father, the hurtings of our hearts and the sadness of our souls cry out to you, accept them for the sake of your Son who bore the cross for our sake. When our prayers seem unanswered and your presence amongst us appears to be lost, grant that we may understand your holy will in place of the unfairness of our situation and the malice of men set before us. Come to our aid as you did to St Anthony in the desert, do not allow the burden and failure of the present triumph over the joy that awaits us, but humbly grant us the strength to persevere and to remain faithful to your promises as your servant Job did and as countless Saints have, so that with them we may triumph and endure in your glory forever.
 
Our Holy Father, you are so close to us but we don’t know what to do. We rely in our emotions, we rely in what we feel, we rely in our faith that is so small, we rely on us for this reason You seem so far away when you are so close.
every thought that we can have if it not for Christ is a sin even if it could appear so beautiful. Every emotion we have even if it may appear good if it is not for you it is a sin. And most of the times we sin just because we care about us more then about You.
May you allow us the Grace of having the strenght and the courage of wanting to loose our life in the name of Jesus Christ, so our heart could receive the divine wine that changes and we cannot have by ourselves.
Please our Lord don’t abbandon us to our desires, our will and our strenghts. Please may Your Grace be with us, may You give us a pure heart capable of knowing you. May you use us without us knowing it so that no pride from it could arouse in us.
Please Lord be meciful with us. We pray you in the name of your son Jesus Christ.
 
LumenGent said:
Great Prayers Trishie 🙂

You should write a prayer book. The meaning they convey is so powerful and profound.

Merciful Father, the hurtings of our hearts and the sadness of our souls cry out to you, accept them for the sake of your Son who bore the cross for our sake. When our prayers seem unanswered and your presence amongst us appears to be lost, grant that we may understand your holy will in place of the unfairness of our situation and the malice of men set before us. Come to our aid as you did to St Anthony in the desert, do not allow the burden and failure of the present triumph over the joy that awaits us, but humbly grant us the strength to persevere and to remain faithful to your promises as your servant Job did and as countless Saints have, so that with them we may triumph and endure in your glory forever.
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And yours is a beautiful prayer.
Thank you. I have, from events, trials and insights along the way, my ‘handful of wildflowers’. I never knew what to do with them except to pray them but I sometimes see they may be needed here. And sometimes I start threads with appropriate ones when I see someone’s hurting and their need or hurt reminds me of one of my prayers.
I call them wildflowers in the title but the real name is weedflowers, a reminder of the wilting dandelion or clover flowers that my little sons used to pick as gift of love for me. I figured that’s what my prayers/meditations are like to God. Little wilting bunches of weed-flowers like my boys used to bring to me with love in their eyes.
 
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kindgom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliever us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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.
 
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kindgom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliever us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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.
 
Lord please may we all feel You close to us Amen

Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
 
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kindgom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliever us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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.
 
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kindgom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliever us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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.
 
Our God, we pray to You for others and ourselves, and sometimes it seems, if only for a time, a time of awful pain and loneliness, that no one is listening, that You are not there.

Many have turned away, disappointed and bitter, that You have not answered their urgent prayer, their painful need for self and for others. There is no satisfactory human answer to their challenge, whatever one might say of Your ways, Your time, because their anguish or their anger is the reality they experience.

Dear God, You need no reminder, but my humanness leads me to remind You that we are human in our minds and hearts and bodies. We have little or no actual sense or knowledge of ourselves as spirit. If You seem not to touch us as human beings living in a physical world that we acutely experience, then some of us falter in faith and hope. I pray for them with all my heart and life.

O silent God let us hear Your voice in the words of others, and let us be Your love spoken to them. Yet may I ask that You also speak directly to their hearts and minds with unmistakable Love even where we cannot detect the action of Your Spirit in ourselves or in others. Speak to them in their last moments, if not before.

Please be mindful of our needs, and our desperation for ourselves and our loved ones.
Nurture us as we pray and seek Your healing and care.
Embrace all who have lost their hope in God and prayer.
Help them to find You even in the silence,
yet please give them, give us, experience of Your love in our lives.
 
Lord please may we all feel You close to us Amen

Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
 
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kindgom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliever us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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
 
I honestly don’t know why I don’t spend more time on the prayer intention forum.
Much more productive! Beautiful prayer will be prayed.
 
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kindgom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliever us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

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
 
Trishie said:
Loving God please give us the grace to remain faithful when You seem far and disinterested.
Please help us to persevere though trials and losses that may shake our trust in You as attentive, loving God.

Yet, our God, how can we know what further dangers and evils might befall us or what good may be lost without Your grace and protection?

Saint Therese asked that if a father protects his child from breaking his leg, does he love him less than a father who allowed his fall but took tender care afterwards? We cannot know all good that has occurred or evil that might have happened had You not protected and blessed us. Thank You for safeguarding us!

Pleading for strength and grace, I choose to continue following You for others’ sake as much as for mine. In Your loving mercy let this choice endure and triumph. Please grant that it will and that Your blessings will fulfil Your desires in my life and within the lives of those whom I love and serve as Your instrument and witness.

Loving God please may Your will be fulfilled in and through me even when You seem far from me and from those I love.
I continue to hope that You will restore experience of love in my life and theirs
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I did not reply to this thread the 10 times I passed through it! Because it pains…
When God is far away is hell on Earth.
 
Lord please may we all feel You close to us Amen

Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
 
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