When Your Heart is Heavy, Pray

When your heart is heavy,

when no one comes to see you,

when dark clouds cover your whole life -

O Soul, do not despair. Do not feel lonely.

Look up to Heaven with great expectation

and pray with faith:

“Our Father Who Art in Heaven.”

When you are alone, and silence comes

upon you with vulgarity and wickedness,

O Soul, do not despair, do not sink into yourself.

Look up to Heaven and with love say,

“My Lord, Hallowed Be Thy Name.”

When the whole world is in chaos, and justice

is trampled on, when hell is let loose on earth,

and nations are branded with the name of hell,

when world powers discuss peace, and there’s no

peace anywhere, and killings everywhere, when

nations run into their ruins and you keep

asking, with disbelief “Why do you allow these

our Heavenly Father, “My God!”

Soul do not despair. Do not give up hope.

Look up to Heaven, and say it with humility:

Our souls are attacked by the racing devils

“My Lord can lead us, not into temptation

but deliver US from evil.”

Then the Master said gently, but with great authority

“Depart from US, Satan, and said to the storm, “Be

quiet, let it be peace and silence,” and He asked

“Why are you frightened, do you have no faith?”

When you feel like being a burn-out,

when your faith becomes weak and you even go

against it, or have no strength for praying,

when everything inside you rebels against Him,

O Soul do not despair, do not give up. Look up

to Heaven and say it with sorrow,

“My God, forgive us our trespasses.”

When all you wanted is to be respected, and that they

should acknowledge your work

because you have given your best,

but instead they only used you:

O Soul, do not despair, do not lose heart,

look up to Heaven and say with forgiveness,

“My Lord, as we forgive those who trespass

against us. O Soul, do not despair. Do not

get depressed. Look up to Heaven and say it with

hope: My Lord “Thy Kingdom Come”.

When cold reality sets in, and you see the purpose

of life no more, when you struggle and you are still a loser,

O Soul, do not despair, do not become bitter,

look up to Heaven and say it with trust,My Lord

“Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven.”

When the poor count their cents

when high prices unnerve you, when the

rich spend millions for pleasure, and the poor

in the millions, go hungry, look up to Heaven

and say with gratitude, “My Lord. give us

this day our daily Bread.” When we do and say

what we really do not want to do or say, we cry

“My Lord forgive us our trespasses as we forgive

those who trespass against us.” May we not be led into

temptation by the enemy, but pray “O Lord deliver us

from evil.” Because Lord we know in our hearts that

Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory,

Forever and ever……..Amen.

….Anon.