Your faith deserves it, so let this be done for you.
- ELISABETH LESEUR
God, I offer you my spiritual aridity and deprivations.
I offer you the interior sadness, the injuries, the disappointments of my heart, so much anxiety for the spiritual well-being and the health of those precious to me, and all the many sufferings of life.
I offer you darkness of spirit, weakness of will, interior sorrow, and burdens.
I offer you my physical distress, this illness that has sadly limited my external life, the discomforts and exhaustion that my troubles bring right now.
I bind these things into a sheaf, Lord, and come humbly with the shepherds to lay it in the manger. Little Child, all love, all purity, all tenderness, give me purity of heart, tenderness, and charity. Accept my afflictions and use them for the good of others and for your glory. May your blessed hands help me to carry [my burdens], and may your love and the union of our hearts relieve my isolation.
May it end one day, when, by your grace, you will convert and make holy those dear persons whom I beg you to make Christians and apostles, O Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God.
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Acknowledgement
Servant of God Elisabeth Leseur. "Your faith deserves it, so let this be done for you," excerpt from Selected Writings. Paulist Press, Inc. (2005).
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