Prayers and Quotations

Native American Prayer to Begin the Day

 
O Great, Holy Spirit,   I take this step into the day you have given.     I embrace all I see - the season, the wind, the fragrances, the weather. Let me always accept the day given with a grateful heart.


O Spirit of Life, I put my arms around myself, all that I am, all that I can be. I stand here in my own history, with all my mistakes and victories. I hold all those I will meet today, in my journeying and in my work. I try to walk gently on this earth. Let me walk gently through the lives of my friends and work companions. Though they make way for my passing, may they spring back, neither broken nor bruised.


O glorious Spirit of Mystery, I put my arms around you. I do not know what will happen to me today, but I accept it.  Give me a heart of courage and believing, so I may put my trust in you, and fear nothing.
 
                - From the Plains tribes -
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Whatever your daily tasks, seek every opportunity to make contact with the world of the spirit, with the divine world, because it is only here, in this world you each carry within you that you can blossom and find plenitude. The subtle joys of the spiritual world are the only lasting joys, so why spoil them by endlessly lingering too low in the material? This divine world you carry within you is your higher nature, and by identifying with it you give it every opportunity to develop. Then, little by little you will sense that even when you are in darkness and torment you will forever be accompanied by peace and light.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

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Slow me down, Lord!

Ease the pounding of my heart

By the quieting of my mind.

Steady my hurried pace

With the vision of the eternal reach of time.

Give me, amid the confusion of my day,

The calmness of the everlasting hills.

Inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil

Of life’s enduring values

That I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny.

-   Author Unknown – 

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It is almost time.

As always,

There has been

So much to do. But now, before it is too late,

Before this hallowed, gracious hour slips away,

I must pause

And be quiet.

I must think.

I must be 

with God.

        - Vincent P. McCorry, S.J.

"Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire."

— St. Catherine of Siena -

"We can do no great things,
Only small things with great Love."

- Mother Teresa -

   "The place God calls you to 
is the place 

    where your own deep gladness 

    and the world's great hunger meet." 

     —Frederick Buechner