GrumpyBrother on Nostr: "Make me sound, O Lord, and I will be whole. O only wise and compassionate Doctor, I ...
"Make me sound, O Lord, and I will be whole.
O only wise and compassionate Doctor, I entreat Your loving-kindness.
Treat the scars of my soul and illuminate the eyes of my mind so that I may know my role in Your eternal plan.
And as much as my heart and my mind have been mutilated, may Your grace restore them, for it is like true salt.
What will I say to You, the One who knows the heart and who searches the heart and reins of man?
For, You know that, as a waterless land, my soul pants for You and my heart yearns for You.
For Your grace has always delivered those who love You...
Bestow on my heart a mere drop of Your grace, so that the fire of Your love would begin burning within my heart, and just like a fire, let it devour my wicked thoughts as thorns and thistles.
Provide me all these things in abundance.
Bestow them on me as God to man, and as a King to His vassals, and make them grow as a compassionate Father."
+ St Ephraim the Syrian
O only wise and compassionate Doctor, I entreat Your loving-kindness.
Treat the scars of my soul and illuminate the eyes of my mind so that I may know my role in Your eternal plan.
And as much as my heart and my mind have been mutilated, may Your grace restore them, for it is like true salt.
What will I say to You, the One who knows the heart and who searches the heart and reins of man?
For, You know that, as a waterless land, my soul pants for You and my heart yearns for You.
For Your grace has always delivered those who love You...
Bestow on my heart a mere drop of Your grace, so that the fire of Your love would begin burning within my heart, and just like a fire, let it devour my wicked thoughts as thorns and thistles.
Provide me all these things in abundance.
Bestow them on me as God to man, and as a King to His vassals, and make them grow as a compassionate Father."
+ St Ephraim the Syrian