{"id":574,"date":"2010-08-09T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/6-favorite-prayers.html"},"modified":"2010-08-09T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:45:00","slug":"6-favorite-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/6-favorite-prayers.html","title":{"rendered":"6 Favorite Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are my six favorite prayers … what are yours?
\nThe Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr<\/strong>
\nGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
\ncourage to change the things I can;
\nand wisdom to know the difference.
\nLiving one day at a time;
\nEnjoying one moment at a time;
\nAccepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
\nTaking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;
\nTrusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will;
\nThat I may be reasonably happy in this life
\nand supremely happy with Him Forever in the next.
\nAmen.
\nPrayer by Thomas Merton<\/strong>
\nMy Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
\nI do not see the road ahead of me.
\nI cannot know for certain where it will end.
\nNor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
\nBut I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
\nAnd I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
\nI hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
\nAnd I know that if I do this
\nyou will lead me by the right road
\nthough I may know nothing about it.
\nTherefore will I trust you always
\nthough I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
\nI will not fear, for you are ever with me,
\nand you will never leave me to face my perils alone.<\/p>\n


\nThe Memorare<\/strong>
\nRemember O Most gracious Virgin Mary,
\nthat never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection,
\nimplored your help,
\nor sought your intercession
\nwas left unaided.
\nInspired by this confidence,
\nI fly to you, O Virgin of virgins, my mother.
\nTo you I come;
\nbefore you I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
\nO Mother of the Word Incarnate,
\ndespise not my petitions,
\nbut in your mercy, hear and answer me.
\nAmen.
\nPrayer by John Henry Newman<\/strong>
\nDear Jesus,
\nHelp me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go.
\nFlood my soul with Your spirit and life.
\nPenetrate and possess my whole being so utterly,
\nthat my life may only be a radiance of Yours.
\nShine through me, and be so in me
\nthat every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul.
\nLet them look up and see no longer me,
\nbut only Jesus!
\nStay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine,
\nso to shine as to be a light to others;
\nthe light, O Jesus will be all from You;
\nnone of it will be mine;
\nit will be you, shining on others through me.
\nLet me thus praise You the way You love best,
\nby shining on those around me.
\nLet me preach You without preaching,
\nnot by words but by my example,
\nby the catching force of the sympathetic influence of what I do,
\nthe evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You.
\nAmen.
\nSt. Teresa of Avila’s “Bookmark”<\/strong>
\nLet nothing disturb you.
\nLet nothing frighten you.
\nAll things are passing.
\nGod alone is changeless
\nHe who has patience wants for nothing
\nHe who has God has all things.
\nGod alone suffices.
\nPrayer of St. Francis of Assisi<\/strong>
\nLord, make me an instrument of your peace.
\nWhere there is hatred, let me sow love;
\nwhere there is injury,pardon;
\nwhere there is doubt, faith;
\nwhere there is despair, hope;
\nwhere there is darkness, light;
\nand where there is sadness, joy.
\nO Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek?to be consoled as to console;?to be understood as to understand;?to be loved as to love.?For it is in giving that we receive;?it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;?and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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