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Prayer for Today
Give me, if you will, prayer;
Or let me know dryness,
An abundance of devotion,
Or if not, then barrenness.
In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,
I find my peace,
What do you want of me?
Yours I am, for You I was born:
What do you want of me?
- Saint Teresa of Avila
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Thank you. I really needed this today.
Thank you so much for posting this prayer today. Somehow, it is exactly what I needed.
Peace,
Julie
”Yours I am, for you I was born”
Interesting prayer of St. Teresa of Avila. Ironic that you post this on my seventeenth birthday.
and i was thinking it interesting because i am in very poor health and have spent the day fretting about how long i might live….
Thank you for posting this. I really needed it today. I am just beginning to read St. Theresa of Avila’s (auto)biography. Her story is fascinating!
Also, thanks for this blog.
Dear Sister Julie – I am engaged in discernment and have hit a very dry patch of road. It has not shaken my overall confidence but it has confused me: how can this be a path of real love and yet sometimes be so dry and barren? Thank you for this prayer from Teresa.
Beautiful prayer. Saint Teresa sounds like such a passionate woman of her day. And luckily for Jean and I, she’s also the patron saint of those discerning vocations :p in all the passion and dryness (I like to call it clouding) it can bring.
How humble she is! Besides, she’s French! I love that!
Let’s copy this prayer and remember it when going through tribulation.
It is a wonderful prayer … I’ll have to publish the whole prayer because this was only a couple stanzas. Also, Teresa is Spanish. You may be thinking of Therese of Lisieux who also had some inspiring prayers!