Spiritual Survival Guide
6: Keeping It Going: Moving Beyond Survival Mode
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony; that where there is error, I may bring truth; that where there is doubt, I may bring faith; that where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where there are shadows, I may bring light; that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted; to understand, than to be understood; to love, than to be loved.
The Lord’s Prayer
This is one of multiple common versions of the prayer from Matthew 6:9-13. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
“A Prayer for Those Who Don’t Know Christ” Lord Jesus! You, Who in the most bitter moments of Your passion showed an ardent thirst for souls, grant that we may share in this thirst. Give us the light to grow
The Serenity Prayer
“The Serenity Prayer reminds me that the only person I can change is myself.” God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.
in the knowledge of Your word and grant us strength so that, by collaborating in preaching this word at every moment of our lives, we may bring to You,
The Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me a channel of thy peace; that where there is hatred, I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
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