God Knows How Much We Can Handle

We often hear the expression, you are not alone. But that’s only part of God’s tenderness towards our plight in times of hardship. Not only are we not alone but our dear Lord knows how much we can handle.

When we feel overwhelmed it is often because we’ve entered into a land we were not given the grace to cross. Backup. Ask for God’s help and you will find the strength to return to that place where you will grow in his light, and be nurtured by the waters of his Spirit.

God knows how much we can handle.

O Lord Jesus Christ, out of love You died and rose for me and gave me the Holy Spirit. In His light and through the prayers of your Holy Mother, I ask You to proclaim the Gospel of Your love in my heart and in my life today.

I renounce an attachment to sin, and I rebuke in Your Name every spirit of evil and disorder. Let Your risen glory shine all through me that I may love and adore You with my whole being.

Shine in my body, my brain and nervous system, my chemistry, every tissue and organ. Shine in my mind and will and all their powers; in my psyche, my unconscious, my sexuality and all my energies, so that I may love and work, pray, play and sleep in Your holiness. Shine in my heart and spirit.

Put to death my egotism. Cast out my fear and every sinful habit. Enlighten me wholly and transform all my relationships. Fully restore Your image in me so that I no longer live, but You live in me. Root me and center me in the Father’s love.

Consecrate me to His praise and to the wholehearted love of all my brothers and sisters; and order all my days and deeds in your peace. For You are my Life, my Hope, my Joy and my Healing. And I send up glory to You, and to Your Eternal Father, together with Your All-Holy, Good and Life-Giving Spirit, now and always, and for ever and ever.

Amen.

-from Fr. Robert Pelton of Madonna House