"Lord! Give me courage and love to open the door and constrain You to enter, whatever the disguise You come in, even before I fully recognize my guest.
Come in! Enter my small life!
Lay Your sacred hands on all the common things and small interests of that life and bless and change them. Transfigure my small resources, make them sacred. And in them give me Your very self."
Come in! Enter my small life!
Lay Your sacred hands on all the common things and small interests of that life and bless and change them. Transfigure my small resources, make them sacred. And in them give me Your very self."
-Evelyn Underhill
I love this prayer and have been praying it all week. It was sent to me in a card by my beautiful friend Katerina, and the words she wrote are just as wonderful:
"...When you feel hindered by your own resources, remember that our Lord is a God of small things. God will allow constraint of God´s own self to enter and make useful and holy the small amounts of love that you invite God to use and bless. What humble divinity we serve! What to us is all impatience and frustration and guilt, to God is an occasion for grace, for abundance (remember the loaves and fish?) and for Christ to show through you."
"...When you feel hindered by your own resources, remember that our Lord is a God of small things. God will allow constraint of God´s own self to enter and make useful and holy the small amounts of love that you invite God to use and bless. What humble divinity we serve! What to us is all impatience and frustration and guilt, to God is an occasion for grace, for abundance (remember the loaves and fish?) and for Christ to show through you."
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