HEAR MY PLEA

I call upon you for you will answer me; bend your ear and hear my whisper. Guard me as the pupil of the eye; hide me in the shade of your wings for far from you my foes multiply. Let not your grace depart from me for I have tasted and seen that you are good and sufficient for me. Twice have I known of how your love is great: once when I stayed under your wings and drank from your cup of loving grace and then when I departed trying in vain to forge my path alone.

How great thou art that you open the palm of your hand and feed the whole world. You are to be praised for in you all who search for peace rejoice. Those who seek your face you reveal to them in full the glory of thy being. From dust your breath makes into being that which had no being. When we revolt and turn our faces from your light, who but you makes us see the darkness in us? Who is He that washes us whiter than snow when we stain our given life? Who purifies and restores these vessels when we have corrupted them to the core? When as scarlet our sins are red, who does cleanse us and save us from ourselves?

Let not your goodness and mercy depart from me for any moment. You strengthen me to stand tall when I sit by thyself, hear my plea you who are the light and guide my path by your truth that I may not be far from you. Hear this plea and grant the desire to be by you for I have tested and known that I deceive myself in revolting for you are the source and detachment from you will be alienation from hope and life.

(Inspired by homily from Fr. Kanja 2012)

RITH@.