Lord, today and
every day, I thank you for the gift of your Spirit in me and in the world. Your
Spirit can work in me with a soft but insistent voice, telling me that my life
is empty and meaningless, but that there are chances of a new life waiting before
the door of my inner self to fill its void and to conquer its dullness. Your Spirit can work in me, awakening the
desire to strive towards the sublime and against the profanity of the average
day. Your Spirit can give me the courage
that says “Yes” to life in spite of the destructiveness I have experienced
around me and within me. Your Spirit can
reveal to me that I have hurt somebody deeply, but can also give me the right
word that reunites the other with me. Your
Spirit can make me love, with the divine love, someone whom I profoundly
dislike or in whom I have no interest. Your
Spirit can conquer the sloth towards what I know is your aim for my life, and can
transform my moods of aggression and depression into stability and
serenity. Your Spirit can liberate me
from hidden enmity against those whom I love and from open vengefulness against
those by whom I feel violated. Your
Spirit can give me the strength to throw off false anxieties and to take upon
myself the anxiety that belongs to life itself.
Your Spirit can awaken me to sudden insight into the way I must take our
world, and can open my eyes to a view of it that makes everything new. Your Spirit can give me joy in the midst of
ordinary routine as well as in the depth of sorrow. Your Spirit can create warmth in the coldness
I feel within me and around me, and can give me wisdom and strength where my
human love towards a loved one has failed.
Your Spirit can throw me into a hell of despair about myself and then
give me the certainty that life has accepted me when I felt totally rejected by
others and even when I rejected myself.[1] I thank you for the gift of your Spirit. Amen.
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