Lenten Solitude and Prayer

SOLITUDE

Prayer

My glorious God….I choose to be with You alone, as I enter into your Holy Passion Week. I seek to be in constant prayer and to accompany you on your journey to the Cross. In solitude, I will find total peace…..there with you. Amen

Prayer of Gratitude

Prayer of Gratitude for Positive Results

God you are my Healer, I waited today for results of a Scan from early this morning. In your Holy Name, “Jesus,” I received a positive report. You know that I have been leaning on You. I have been standing on Your Word during the last 90 days. My eyes look to You in gratitude and love tonight as I thank you for rescuing me and setting me free.  I am about to slumber. It was a longer and harder day. but you are always by my side  Thank you for staying close to me all day and for your love and saving Grace. I feel your deliverance. I am grateful and humbled my Lord……and my God.

• Amen •

Lenten Reflection – Fifth Week – Evening

BE COMPASSIONATE, NOT COMPETITIVE

Let us not allow competitiveness to enter into our togetherness with others, because in the center of this, we end up loosing our compassion for others  Being compassionate can be frightening to our ability to cross over dividing lines and giving up our differences. We become afraid. Afraid we might loose ourselves in this process and loose our identity…..who we are.

Mark 10: 41-44

When the ten heard this, they began to become angry with James and John. So Jesus called to them and said to them….Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to he first amount you must be lovers of all.

Prayer

God my protector, my own competitiveness can sometimes keep me separate from others. I can become a lone soul rather than a companion and a human being in complete unity with others, especially those I love. Help me to live my life where I can set differences by the side, and help me to become a compassionate lover of all….rather than a lover of myself.

Acknowledge God’s Love

God loves me not because of anything I have done to earn it, but because in total freedom He has decided to love me. It is difficult to comprehend getting something for nothing.

Prayer

My Most High God, please take me into your love, the love that I can never earn. I confess that I fail…..and I do not deserve your forgiveness. My human self believes that this love is something I earn. I believe that others will only love me if I act as if I love  them. Your love for me has no bounds, and cannot be withdrawn. I am in awe. My Father God….. grant me the grace to accept this gift from You.   AMEN

My Lenten Table Offering

It is the time of day for Lenten reflection….time for quiet and prayer. This is the First Sunday in Lent.

My Loving God, accept my poor offering of friendship with You. I seek to journey with you to the Easter miracle of the Resurrection. I wish for your outstretched hand of welcome and forgiveness.

Thank you Father for a quiet, peaceful, prayerful and reflective evening.  Amen

 

Thanksgiving

Jesus, in thanksgiving I prepare for slumber. Your gift of self has made my life precious. How grateful I am for your love and for my life. Today I received many blessings and I thank you with a sincere heart.  I now lay down to sleep and praise your holy name for my beautiful day filled with your wonderful gifts. Thank you for my day. Amen 

Irish Prayer

I am an Irish Woman * I was born with my heart on my sleeve * and a fire in my soul.

May you always have….

A sunbeam to warm you,

Good luck to charm you, 

And a sheltering angel

so nothing can harm you, 

Laughter to cheer you, 

Faithful friends near you,

And whenever you pray, 

Heaven to hear you.

*AMEN* 

Wellness Visit……post procedure (Revised)

O Lord, I ask for your oil of healing to flow through me like a living stream today. I choose to bathe in these clear waters every day. I will keep my eyes on you, and trust in you-  that I will fully be freed of this very small module in my lung, and that with careful “medical observation” it will dissolve, as is expected. I ask that any concern I have today, will be held in your tender, powerful and loving hands. I give you all that I am, and rest completely in your peace. Thank you Father for your almighty and healing love.

Amen….

Revised – 10:30 pm / 01/06/22

My Father in heaven, today I received a positive report on my tests. There is no malignancy. I praise you for all that you have done, and for all that you will do. I can’t see into the future, as you do. But one step at a time, I am putting my trust in you, that this small benign hematoma will resolve itself, as my Dr believes it will. Please give my loved ones peace of mind; and bring calm to them about my next precautionary test in April. I pray for your miraculous, healing powers. In your powerful name I thank you for the calm feelings I have tonight, and I praise you for bringing holy peace into my spirit as I lay down to sleep. In your holy name Jesus Christ I thank you for my generous blessings and my very positive reports today. I know that you know every cell in my body and you alone can heal my body. In your powerful name, Jesus Christ I pray with great thanksgiving to You. Amen.

Pray Without Ceasing…..

My Lord and my God, have mercy on my soul.  Forgive me  of my sins and lead me in your ways. I surrender and give you my life. In your holy name Jesus, I pray. Amen. 

In Quietness and Confidence

 

Isaiah 30:15

Thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel. “In returning and in rest you shall be saved; “quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”

Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you or forsake you.

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I claim this promise; that in quietness and confidence shall be my strength. I can so easily let my mind and circumstances place my thinking into over activity. My mind pushes forward to my own thinking with “my solutions.” My brain starts thinking too fast. I think on who might help me to make assumptions. It is then that I can feel anxious and become afraid. When this happens….my true hearts desire is to think only of You – and return quickly to  “your quietness,”’ I want to see your face and your “will” for me. And then to invite the Holy Spirit to fill me. Only then can I know your direction for me.

I now ask you for your patience with me. I wish to only trust in you when I can’t see my way forward. My energy and my self direction drains me, and I know that only your quiet confidence will give me strength. I ask you to never leave me in my times of need. I wish to communicate only with you. I know that talking with you in prayer, and then being willing to wait, without trying to push forward for an answer, is surely your will for my resolution.

“Those who wait for the Lord, will gain new strength; and they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.

Isaiah 40:31