Passing Thoughts

From my photo album "AnyoneCanShootAsAnyCamWillDo"

Most Catholics (save for those who may have other ways of observing spiritual devotion) are taking a respite in the coming Lent as a way to pause and reflect on Christ’s sufferings and His love for us.

This week offers an excellent opportunity for those whose acts of penance are rather manifested annually (only during Lenten season) than those who are taking it as a matter of life’s daily challenges.

As each of us endeavors to renew our faith for the One who’s responsible for everything that we are and all that we have, it is but fitting to offer this week to Him with prayers as a show of gratitude for His unfailing, unconditional, and infinite love.

I wish to share the foregoing prayer by William Barclay (which has been shared a hundred times on various blogs) to everyone who takes time to read this blog, with hopes that each day of your life– is a day of constant reflection and a day full of blessings:

Create For Me A Perfect Day

O God help me to make today a perfect day 
at the end of which I will have nothing to regret.

Help me     To do my work as well as it can possibly be done;
                     To treat everyone with perfect courtesy and kindness;
                     To conquer every temptation and to say no to everything that is wrong.

Help me     Not to annoy anyone else and not allow myself to become annoyed;
                    Not to lose my temper and not to do things which will make others lose theirs;
                    Not to do anything foolish or thoughtless, cruel or unkind.

Help me      To be cheerful and kind;
                    To be brave and strong;
                    To be pure and true.

This I ask for Your love’s sake. Amen

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I’d like to thank my good friend Amy Cabusao, editor-in-chief of Mindanao Times for her gift “Carillon of Prayers” booklet, and whose meeting I have with days ago originally centered on how best to advocate Mindanao’s priorities, but ended up with me realizing that communicating and advocating this prayer takes utmost precedence, among all other things.

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“Nothing compares in this world to the love God has given us. For we may find reasons to love, but God loves us without reasons.”–Anonymous