Love

LORD, TEACH US TO LOVE.

Blessed Father! ‘You are Love, and only they that  abide in love abide in You and in fellowship with You. The Blessed Son has again taught me how deeply true this is of my fellowship with You in prayer.

O my God! Let Your love, shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Spirit, be in me a fountain of love to all around me, that out of a life in love may spring the power of believing prayer.

O  my Father! Grant by the Holy Spirit that this may be my experience, that a life in love to all around me is the gate to a life in the love of my God. And give me especially to find in the joy with which I forgive day by day whoever might offend me, the proof that Your forgiveness to me is a power and a life.

Lord Jesus! My Blessed Teacher! Teach me  to forgive and to love. Let the power of Your blood make the pardon of my sins such a reality, that forgiveness, as shown by You to me, and by me to others, may be the very joy of heaven. Show me whatever in my relationships with others might hinder my fellowship with God, so that my daily life in my own home and in society may be the school in which strength and confidence are gathered for the prayer of faith. Amen.