Prayer to keep the Presence of God

"Lord, God Almighty, you have brought us safely to the beginning of this day. Defend us today by your mighty power, so that we may not fall into any sin, and that all our words may so proceed and all our thoughts and actions be so directed as to be always just in your sight. Through Christ our Lord. Amen."

Babies 2008

Rory Beach 2009

St. Ignacius Loyola

"Teach us to be generous,

        good Lord;

Teach us to serve You

     as You deserve;

To give and not to

    count the cost,

       To fight and not

     to heed the wounds,

To toil and not to seek for rest,

        To labor and not

     to ask for any reward

Save that of knowing we do

Your will.

Amen."

Agatha Christie

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~