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LINGERING OVER GOD
The Grace I Seek
I pray for the following graces: wonder at God’s ongoing creation; gratitude for the gift of God creating me and creating the world.
Conversation with God
There is nothing magical about praying. Prayer is a conversation with God. So invite God to be with you during this sacred time. Ask God to help you be grateful and honest as you look back on the day. With God’s help, be attentive to how the Spirit was working in and through you, others, and creation. Let yourself see your day as God sees it.
PSALM 121
A song of ascents.
1 I raise my eyes toward the mountains.*
From whence shall come my help?a
2 My help comes from the LORD,
the maker of heaven and earth.b
3 He will not allow your foot to slip;c
or your guardian to sleep.
4 Behold, the guardian of Israel
never slumbers nor sleeps.
5*The LORD is your guardian;
the LORD is your shade
at your right hand.d
6 By day the sun will not strike you,
nor the moon by night.e
7 The LORD will guard you from all evil;
he will guard your soul.f
8 The LORD will guard your coming and going
both now and forever.g
Pray the psalm slowly. Open your heart to God. Consider: What is God like? How can God help me?
For Reflection
Lingering Over God
God’s touch, though taking place in a moment of time, lives on within us forever. When we experience God’s love, God’s self-giving, we are never the same. We may return to some of our old ways of being and acting, but deep down within we are not the same.
We can continue to let an experience of God bear fruit within us by going back to it and lingering over it. Through this remembering, lingering, and reliving process, we open ourselves to God—we allow God to move within us, to touch our hearts again so that our own experiences of God ripple deep within us and can continue to make a difference in our lives.
—Maureen Conroy, The Discerning Heart
A PRAYER BASED ON THE EXAMEN OF CONSCIOUSNESS
David Fleming SJ
God, thank you.
I thank you, God, for always being with me, but especially I am grateful that you are with me right now.
God, send your Holy Spirit upon me.
God, let the Holy Spirit enlighten my mind and warm my heart that I may know where and how we have been together this day.
God, let me look at my day.
God, where have I felt your presence, seen your face, heard your word this day?
God, where have I ignored you, run from you, perhaps even rejected you this day?
God, let me be grateful and ask forgiveness.
God, I thank you for the times this day we have been together and worked together.
God, I am sorry for the ways that I have offended you by what I have done or what I did not do.
God, stay close.
God, I ask that you draw me ever closer to you this day and tomorrow.
God, you are the God of my life—thank you.
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