Thank you, dear Lord, for your love and care for me
evidenced in so many ways.
Thank you for pardoning the sins I have committed this day;
thank you for the opportunities to show love well used this day;
thank you also for sins avoided on account of your guidance and restraint.
Let it be my single ambition, my God, to honor you
in every thought, word, and deed;
and make me bold to invite all people around me to honor and love you as well.
Your love toward me is so patient, so tender,
even when I provoke you with my disobedience.
Give me such an appreciation of your love for me
that I show the same patient and tender love to my neighbor,
especially when he or she opposed me.
Sit us within me a zeal to do all in my power,
whether in prayer or deed,
to promote the safety and happiness of my neighbor;
make me active to comfort and relieve all those whom you entrust to my care
by bringing me into contact with them.
Lord, help me to be peaceful rather than argumentative;
help me to be quick to forget an injury and be reconciled to my neighbor,
mindful of how many times you have forgiven my provocations.
After your own example, make me glad to give good in return for evil,
and thus share in the triumph of your love.
In all my dealings with my fellow human beings,
let me reflect your love, your generous spirit,
your desire to do good both to the just and the unjust.
You have so valued each person that you sent your Son for each and every one.
Implant, therefore, such a compassion in my heart for people.
that I will eagerly seek out how I may win them to your love.
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
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