Prayer for July - August
Reflection
The Sufi Bayazid says this about himself:
‘I was a revolutionary when I was young
and all my prayer to God was,
‘‘Lord give the energy to change the world.’’
Intercessons
Disturb us, O Lord
when we are too well pleased with ourselves;
when our dreams have come true
because we dreamed too little;
when we have arrived in safety
because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, O Lord
when with the abundance of things we possess
we have lost our thirst for the waters of Life;
when, having fallen in love with time,
we have ceased to dream of eternity;
and when, in our efforts to build a new earth,
we have allowed our vision of the New Heaven
to grow dim.
Get us, O Lord, to dare more boldly,
to venture more seas,
where storms shall show your mastery,
where losing sight of land,
we shall find the stars.
In the name of the One who pushes back
the horizons of our hopes
and invites the brave to follow…
Glory be to the Father
and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit …
Amen
Prayer submitted by Mary Dunne
Now that I am an old man
and my days are numbered,
my prayer now is:
‘‘Lord, give me the grace to change myself.’’
If I had prayed this right from the start
I should not have wasted my life’’.’
As I approached middle age
and realised that half my life was gone
without my changing a single soul,
I changed my prayer to:
‘‘Lord, give me the grace to change all those
who come in contact with me.
Just my family and friends, and I will be content.’’