Submit your desires to the Lord. Ask for His grace to accept His timeline. Do not try to force the resolution you want and, as you show patience in this way, you will see how God is working in you.
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Almighty ever-living God, pour out your mercy upon us to pardon what conscience dreads and to give what prayer does not dare to ask.
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things, which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. – G. K. Chesterton.
“Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess you have given me. I surrender it all to you to be disposed of according to your will. Give me only your love and your grace – with these I
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The anticipation of death should not rob you of joy; rather, it must call you to love. How I live today determines how I will live my last day and the everlasting day of eternal life with God.
“I can see thanks to the sun light, but if I close my eyes, I cannot see; but this is not the fault of the sun, but mine” – Saint Thomas Aquinas
You are living eternal life right now. And if we’re not living it properly on earth, before our deaths, why should you expect to live it in heaven after our deaths? If we don’t choose to give our lives to Jesus now, why would we expect to be with Him forever?
Lord, have mercy on me and grant me the grace to be able to say: ‘I have seen the Lord, not because he appeared to me, but because I saw him with my heart.’
