Guard Your Heart

May 26, 2011 / Denise Marie Siino / Christian Living, Christian Spirituality, Spiritual Formation

I’ve been rereading one of my favorite books, written by friend Kathi Macias, titled “Beyond Me – Living a You-First Life in a Me-First World.” Kathi is one of the most insightful female Christian writers of our time, and this book is perhaps her finest work. In her chapter called Heart Condition, she talks about […]

O our Father, you who reside in the heavens, not as one limited, but because of the greater love you have for those first effects there on high:

Praised be your name and your power by every creature, given that it is fitting to render thanks for your sweet breath.

May the peace of your kingdom come to us, for if it doesn’t come toward us, we are impotent by ourselves, even if we try with all of the strength of our intellect.

And just as angels render their own desires up to you as sacrifice, singing ‘Hosanna,’ so too may human beings do the same with theirs.

Give to us today the daily manna, without which he who grows weary in going forward goes backward through this dry desert.

And as we take that evil we have suffered and pardon it, to every man you, too, pardon with clemency, and you do not consider whether we have merit.

This, our virtue that is overcome so easily,
do not put it to the test by the ancient adversary, but deliver us from him who goads it [to evil].

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