Prayer for Tuesday

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding;
your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
~ Raymond Charles Barker

I forgive all living beings;
May all living beings forgive me.
All living beings are my friends;
I have malice towards none.

May the entire universe be blissful;
May all beings be engaged in each other’s well being.
May all weakness, sickness and faults vanish;
May everyone be healthy, peaceful, and blissful everywhere.

(traditional Jain morning prayers)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“I focus my power. I change my life.”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)

Prayer for Tuesday

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
Love risks degenerating into obsession,
friendship is never anything but sharing.
~ Elie Wiesel

My Lord, help me forgive when everything inside me tells me not to. Help me let go when my heart is so wounded that I feel it’s breaking. Open my eyes to things that can heal me, things that can comfort me and make me stronger. Hold my hand and let me cry on Your shoulder. Take me to places I’ve never been, let me stand on the highest mountain, so I can see how foolish I am for clinging to my anger. Show me a glimpse of Your greatness, so that I can make it my treasure when everything else seems to crumble around me.

Teach me to make the best of all the painful circumstances in my life and help me love the people who hurt me as You love us all, although we hurt You every day by our words, thoughts and actions. Give me the wisdom to see beyond this moment, to understand and accept the deepest motivations that make people hurt other people. Give me the inner strength to heal and not to break, to comfort and not to destroy, to repay good for evil and love for hatred.

And last, but not least, make my faith stronger, so that I can cope with moments like this in the future. Turn every experience into a magic well, from which I can always draw drops of strength and wisdom. Teach me the alchemy of love, which changes dust and mud into gold and makes everything worthwhile. For You are the only help I’ve got and in You I put all my trust now and forever.

AMEN

(Eliza; Source: Eliza’s Prayer Box)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“I forgive everyone for everything.”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)

Prayer for Monday (Hana Matsuri)

Today is the Shinto festival of Hana Matsuri.

Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred.
~ Elie Wiesel

Prayer for My Enemies

May my heart be open to the possibility that
even my enemies can become changed for the better,
with time, old antagonisms may diminish and soften,
differences may become less strident, less divisive.

May I understand that progress and change comes
often, when least expected, least sought after.
May my enemies become allies and even friends.
Bless my enemies, as I bless my friends.

(Copyright Abby Willowroot 2009, used with permission)

This Week’s Affirmation:

“I forgive everyone for everything”

(For more on Affirmations, go to my Affirmations Page.)