Dear Jesus, Help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly, that my life may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no longer me, but only Jesus! Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine, so to shine as to be a light to others; the light, O Jesus will be all from You; none of it will be mine; it will be you, shining on others through me. Let me thus praise You the way You love best, by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words but by my example, by the catching force of the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

"The fewer the words, the better the prayer." - Martin Luther King

Sometimes we would pray and yet nothing would come out from our mouth. Very true with me and happened many times. I even felt guilty trying to figure out how the whole day has ended and I still have nothing to say to God?

But I also forget that silence in itself is a prayer. That I don't always have to do the talking. For only in silence I can hear God talking to me. In fact, if prayer is a conversation with God, so just like any form of conversation - there is a talker and a listener. And both take turns to be one or the other. When we release ourselves in the presence of God and hear Him talk to us in silence we have completed the conversation.

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