My Lord, help me forgive when everything inside me urges me not to. Help me let go when my heart is sowounded that it feels like breaking. Open my eyes tothings that can heal me, things that can comfort me andmake 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 youevery day by our words, thoughts and actions.
Give me the wisdom to see beyond this moment, tounderstand 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 todestroy, to repay good for evil and love for hatred.
And last, but not least, make my faith stronger, so that Ican cope with moments like this in the future. Turn every experience into a magic well of living water, from which Ican always draw drops of strength and wisdom.
Teach me the alchemy of love, which changes dust andmud into gold and makes everything worthwhile.
For you are the only help I’ve got and in you I put all mytrust now and forever.
Amen