Saturday, October 8, 2011

A prayer for the sick, elderly, lonely, or dispossessed

                                                 CONFIDENCE

                                  . . . Therefore I will trust Him.
                                  Whatever, wherever I am.
                                  I can never be thrown away.
                                  If I am in sickness, my sickness may
                                  serve Him;  in perplexity my perplexity
                                  may serve Him;  if I am in sorrow,
                                  my sorrow may serve Him.
                                  He does nothing in vain.
                                  He knows what he is about.
                                  He may take away my friends,
                                  He may throw me among strangers,
                                  He may make me feel desolate,
                                  make my spirits sink, hide my future from me --
                                  still He knows what He is about.

                                              -- Cardinal Newman

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