Wordsprings

And on the subject of rejection, I found this prayer by Emperor Ferdinand II.  It was in a wonderful book titled, Seeds of the Kingdom by Father Almire Pichon, SJ.  He was the spiritual director of St. Therese of Lisieux (and of her whole family) so he must have known what he was doing.  Anyway here is the prayer:

“Lord, if Thy glory and my salvatoin require that I become greater and more powerful than I now am, raise me up, and I shall glorify Thee.  If it be to Thy glory and my salvation that I remain in the state in which I now am, preserve me therein, and I shall glorify Thee.  But if through humiliations I can contribute to Thy praise and my own spiritual well-being, abase me and I shall glorify Thee.”

I think I will tape this to my computer.