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Prayer for Generosity - St. Ignatius

Eternal Word, only begotten Son of God,
Teach me true generosity.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve.
To give without counting the cost,
To fight heedless of wounds,
To labor without seeking rest,
To sacrifice myself without thought of any reward
Save the knowledge that I have done your will.

Amen.

 

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Pebbles

It was my great pain

That being small I still knew

What greatness was?

And how to say it’

And how to give it life.

 

I took pebbles a little

At a time

From that mountain in the mind,

And I threw them

One

By

One

Into him….

Into his soul…

Until

They dammed up every crack and stream

Of littleness,

And the man in him

Became deeper  and

Deeper

Until

It could be pent up no longer,

And B U R S T out.

O God

It bore him past me like a torrent

Past a weeping boy.

And soon I was a weeping little boy

Looking for some place else to throw my pebbles.

  Harold Buckley
June 1972