You say .... GOD Says

You say: "It's impossible"
God says: "What is impossible with men is possible with God." (Luke 18:27)

You say: "I'm too tired"
God says: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28)

You say: "It's impossible"
God says: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, (John 3:16)

You say: "I can't go on"
God says: My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9)

You say: "I can't figure things out"
God says: Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; (Proverbs 3:5)

You say: "I can't do it"
God says: I can do everything through HIM who gives me strength. (Philippians 4:13)

You say: "I'm not able"
God says: And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8)

You say: "It's not worth it"
God says: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Roman 8:28)

You say: "I can't forgive myself"
God says: Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1)

You say: "I can't manage"
God says: God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)

You say: "I'm afraid"
God says: For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7)

You say: "I'm always worried and frustrated"
God says: Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (1 Peter 5:7)

You say: "I'm not smart enough"
God says: It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God�that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.(1 Corinthians 1:30)

You say: "I feel all alone"
God says: Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; (Hebrews 13:5)

Praying for Spouses for Each Other

Lord Jesus, grant that I and my spouse may have a true and understanding love for each other. Grant that we may both be filled with faith and trust. Give us the grace to live with each other in peace and harmony. May we always bear with one another's weaknesses and grow from each other's strengths. Help us to forgive one another's failings and grant us patience, kindness, cheerfulness and the spirit of placing the well-being of one another ahead of self.

May the love that brought us together grow and mature with each passing year. Bring us both ever closer to You through our love for each other. Let our love grow to perfection.

Amen.

Prayer for a Good Husband or Wife

O Jesus, lover of the young, the dearest Friend I have, in all confidence I open my heart to You to beg Your light and assistance in the important task of planning my future. Give me the light of Your grace, that I may decide wisely concerning the person who is to be my partner through life. Dearest Jesus, send me such a one whom in Your divine wisdom You judge best suited to be united with me in marriage. May her/his character reflect some of the traits of Your own Sacred Heart. May s/he be upright, loyal, pure, sincere and noble, so that with united efforts and with pure and unselfish love we both may strive to perfect ourselves in soul and body, as well as the children it may please You to entrust to our care. Bless our friendship before marriage, that sin may have no part in it. May our mutual love bind us so closely, that our future home may ever be most like Your own at Nazareth.

O Mary Immaculate, sweet Mother of the young, to your special care I entrust the decision I am to make as to my future wife/husband. You are my guiding Star! Direct me to the person with whom I can best cooperate in doing God's Holy Will, with whom I can live in peace, love and harmony in this life, and attain to eternal joys in the next.
Amen.

Hoping for Something More

�Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

�At present we are on the outside� the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the pleasures we see. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so. Someday, God willing, we shall get �in�� We will put on glory� that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

We do not want to merely �see� beauty�though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words�to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

C.S.Lewis

Hope when in Crisis

Psalm 27:4-5
4 One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.
5 For in the day of trouble
he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent
and set me high upon a rock.

Mark 5:35-36
35 While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. �Your daughter is dead,� they said. �Why bother the teacher anymore?�
36 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, �Don�t be afraid; just believe.�