•Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God! (Isaiah 40:3)
•Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. (Psalm 85:11)
•…with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day. The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard “delay,” but he is patient with you… (2 Peter 3:8,9)
•“Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.” (Mark 1:3)

 

Dear Jesus,…
Make me perfect in fearing you.
Make me pleasing to you
in humility of spirit,
in sisterly charity, in humble modesty,
in purity of heart,
in guarding all my senses,
in holiness of life,
in ready obedience,
in gentle patience,
in spiritual discipline,
in freely chosen poverty,
in holy leniency,
in maturity of conduct,
in cheerfulness of spirit, and
in all truth,
in good conscience,
in steadfast faith,
in holy perseverance,
in strength of hope,
in fullness of charity, and
in the blessed consummation of your cherishing-love:
so that the thornbush of my heart may be converted…(St. Gertrude)<sup>1



1</sup>Feiss, Hugh, O.S.B., Essential Monastic Wisdom, Harper: San Francisco, 1999, p. 64.