Month: March 2024

Lord, thank You for letting me grow through my work and through relationships, intellectually and spiritually. Please strengthen my awareness that every job is honorable. Thank you for giving me work—both professionally and at home. Let me feel and stay in touch with Your presence even while I’m working.

Lord Jesus, this morning I ask You to let me do all things with love. Give me wisdom, so that all my actions will be of some good for my community and will help build Your kingdom. I ask for a deep awareness, so that all my inspirations, successes, and opportunities come from You.

Dear Jesus, I am happy to accept any gifts You want to give me today. Thank You for all the wonderful things that I have been given—family, friends, work, studies, and hobbies. Please bless all these things so that I can grow in relationships and through any situation You send me.

Jesus, I want to become more like You. Search me with Your love and light so that I can recognize anything bad—thoughts, words, or actions—that choke me. Help me to dispel all doubts toward You. Strengthen my will and my faith.

Lord, teach me today to be sincerely friendly, to share my time, knowledge, and belongings. Open my heart to be able to accept what You want me to learn. I want to learn to love You in other people and accept them in their diversity. Lord, give me strength for the next step in this … Read more

Lord, this morning I ask You to invigorate my soul so that I will not lean on my own strength. Rather, let me present to You all that weighs on me, all my sins and faults. I believe that Your power and light will radiate throughout my being and give me new strength.

Lord, open our hearts this day to be able to serve You wholeheartedly. Heal our paralyzed hands. Let us bring those who need it the gift of touch—offering hugs, gifts, greetings, nurturing, and play.

Lord, this morning I ask for the grace to forgive others the way You forgave in Your final hour. May I be gentle with my friends, as you were with the apostles—offering peace to Your companions, who abandoned You at the cross.

Lord, You are my shepherd, so I ask You to renew in me the power of Your name today. You have given Your life so that all who call upon Your name may find shelter in You, our refuge. Lord, let Your name always be honored and revered, praised and celebrated.

Merciful Jesus, tradition says that You comforted Your loving father, Joseph, when he passed on from this world. When my final hour arrives, please kneel by my side also, and clasp my hand. Grant me blessings for those things I did with love and devotion; grant me also forgiveness for the things I did not … Read more

Jesus, You did not fear death. Rather, You embraced the cross, which would be the instrument of salvation for all humankind. Help us, too, to see the saving grace offered by the crosses You allow us to bear. May we let no suffering go to waste today. May we offer our difficulties to the Lord … Read more

Dear God, we have but a short amount of time on this earth to learn Your just ways, to act according to Your Word, and to share Your light with others. Bless us today, so that we may spend all our days, numbered as they are, glorifying You and hastening Your Kingdom.