Here is a prayer, translated from French, that we were given by dear friends of ours at St Nicolas Church in Strasbourg. They are both over 70 and were each married and widowed before marrying each other. They now have a large blended family for whom they pray together each morning. Monsieur has crafted this prayer over many years of living with Jesus, and his wife testified recently to me how she is only now beginning to learn some of what it means to really allow God to work in one's life in this way. Now James and I are saying this prayer together some mornings. We appreciate it so much, that I thought it was worth sharing.
Prière pour un coeur et un esprit bien disposés
Prayer for a well-disposed heart and spirit
Father,
Now is the privileged moment for meeting together and for consecration.
The time when we have the joy of being able to tell you that we love you with all of our strength, all of our soul and all of our heart, You who created us, who loved us first and who saved us by the precious blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.
We want to express to you our infinite gratitude for your beneficent presence in our life and in the life of all of our large family.
And we want to spend this day in your presence at each instant, our eyes fixed on you, servants listening to you, peacemakers and joyful witnesses to your infinite love for all people without exception.
We want now to abandon ourselves completely to you without holding back anything in such a way that you may have all the space in our life today.
And we pray that you would fill us, _____ and me, with your Holy Spirit, so that it will be you, by your Spirit in us, who governs this day in the smallest detail and who inspires all of our thoughts, emotions, words, actions and our plans and choices today.
And we pray that you would grant us your gaze of infinite, unconditional and respectful love upon our neighbor of today.
And do not allow evil thoughts which are not from you to slyly infiltrate our mind and heart, but denounce them so that we can immediately cast them out, for they have no place in the the temple of your Holy Spirit that we want to be today.
We thank you for hearing this prayer, we believe that it is according to your Father heart, and we thank you in advance for answering it fully throughout this day, by giving to ____ and to me a well-disposed heart and spirit.
Amen.
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