Prayer for my own Birthday!

Prayer for my own Birthday:

Lord, let this feast of my birth be a reminder to me of all the gifts and blessings I have received from You this day and all the days of my life. On my day of celebration, I thank you for my life and all of my blessings and ask for another year filled with Your presence in my life that I may continue to grow in your love.

Gracious God, I thank You for enabling me to celebrate my birthday. Lord You have been good to me all these years and I thank You for all the blessings I have recieved but especially for life itself.

Creator God, I do not know what lies ahead for me this year. Yet I know that You are holding my future in Your hand. Let my ways be pleasing to you. As You have promised, be with me, Lord. Grid me with Your strength and grace so that I can live for Your light. Enable me to draw closer to You that I may walk in your peace and be the creative and loving person that you intend for me to be. I ask this and all things in the sure and certain knowledge of your love for me and for all your people.

Amen.

The Miracle Prayer

The Miracle Prayer

Lord, Jesus, I come before you, just as I am. I am sorry for my sins, I repent of my sins, please forgive me. In your name, I forgive all others for what they have done against me. I renounce Satan, the evil spirits and all their works. I give you my entire self. Lord Jesus, now and forever, I invite you into my life Jesus. I accept you as my Lord and Savior. Heal me, change me, strengthen me in body, soul and spirit.
Come Lord Jesus, cover me with your precious blood, and fill me with your Holy Spirit, I love you Jesus. I praise you Jesus. I thank you Jesus. I shall follow you every day of my life.

Amen.

Prayer to St. Jude

Prayer to St. Jude

Most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor who delivered your beloved Master into the hands of his enemies has caused you to be forgotten by many, but the Church honors and invokes you universally as the patron of hopeless causes, of things almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly add your own request here and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you.

Amen.

Holy Are Your Ways...

Holy Are Your Ways

Help me to understand, Lord, that what counts is not the road traveled, but simply putting my hand in yours and journeying side by side with you, Lord Jesus -- 0 you who are the joy of my journey and also the repose in the Father's home! Holy, holy is the Lord, for eternal is his love.

Lord help me.....

Lord help me to remember that nothing is going to happen to me today that You and I together can't handle.
Amen.

Another way that you love your enemy is this....

Another way that you love your enemy is this:

When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy,that is the time which you must not do it.There will come a time, in many instances,when the person who hates you most,the person who has misused you most,the person who has gossiped about you most,the person who has spread false rumors about you most,there will come a time whenyou will have an opportunity to defeat that person.It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job;it might be in terms of helping that personto make some move in life.That's the time you must do it.That is the meaning of love.

In the final analysis,love is not this sentimental something that we talk about.It's not merely an emotional something.Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men.It is the refusal to defeat any individual.When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power,you seek only to defeat evil systems.Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love,but you seek to defeat the system.

loving your enemies - martin luther king jr. - 1957

A Prayer to redeem lost time.....

A Prayer to Redeem Lost Time, by St. Teresa of Avila

O my God! Source of all mercy! I acknowledge Your sovereign power. While recalling the wasted years that are past, I believe that You, Lord, can in an instant turn this loss to gain. Miserable as I am, yet I firmly believe that You can do all things. Please restore to me the time lost, giving me Your grace, both now and in the future, that I may appear before You in "wedding garments." Amen.