Monday, 13 January 2020

How our Father loves us

I share with you today a prayer by the recently canonized St John Henry Newman:
God sees and knows every one of us. Each and every one.
No matter who you are, He sees you as an individual.
He calls you by your name.
He understands just how He really made you.
He knows what is within you, all your feelings, your deepest thoughts.
Your strengths and your weaknesses.
He watches over you on your days of joy and your days of sadness.
He loves you when you are hopeful and when you are tempted.
He is interested in all your worries and in all the high and low points of your spirit.
He has even counted the hairs on your head and measured your height.
He enfolds you in the protecting arms and He raises you up and sets you down.
He examines the features of your face, when you cry and when you smile,
When you are ill and when you are in good health.
Tenderly He looks at you, hears your voice,
Listens to the beating of your heart, and even hears your breath......
You cannot love yourself more than He loves you.
You cannot tremble with the fear of pain,
As He trembles when He sees it coming to you.
All the same, if He lets you bear it,
It is because you too, if you were really wise,
Would choose to endure it for a greater future good.

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