Evening Prayer – 18 May 2021
The sun has set and the Vesper Lights flicker and glow
When your body and spirit are tired and drained
When you aren’t quite sure what to pray
Spirit intercedes on our behalf
She calls us to simply Be Still
Even in the darkness the light does shine
This prayer of Thomas Merton speaks volumes and speaks to my heart
O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire. — Dialogues with Silence
Now as my eyelids grow heavy
I lift this humble prayer to you
Dona Nobis Pacem
Grant Us Peace
A wee prayer from the heart of your Padre…
