Growing the Garden

[growing-the-garden]

Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me: I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more. Grant, O Lord, that my heart may neither desire nor seek anything but what is necessary for the fulfillment of Thy holy Will. May health or sickness, riches or poverty, honors or contempt, humiliations, leave my soul in that state of perfect detachment to which I desire to attain for Thy greater honor and Thy greater glory.

Prayer for Detachment

[growing-the-garden]

I beg of you, my Lord, to remove anything which separates me from you, and you from me. Remove anything that makes me unworthy of your sight, your control, your reprehension; of your speech and conversation, of your benevolence and love. Cast from me every evil that stands in the way of my seeing you, hearing, tasting, savoring, and touching you; fearing and being mindful of you; knowing, trusting, loving, and possessing you; being conscious of your presence and, as far as may be, enjoying you. This is what I ask for myself and earnestly desire from you. Amen.

Ignatian Prayer for Detachment 

[nathalieahlias]

Perhaps the best way to guard our hearts is to abandon them to Jesus. Because if we take the responsibility of guarding our own hearts, we might simply lock them up so they are never broken with compassion for others or hurt by the sinful people whom Christ asks us to allow into our hearts.

Relevant Magazine

[stardust-seedling]

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

Thomas Merton

[by-grace-of-god]

The roads along which God leads his saints to their sublime destiny are varied and countless.

St. Maximilian Kolbe

[simplessence]

Rebecca Gallop @dailysomething

[a-joyfuljourney]

The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.

Psalm 145:8

[growing-the-garden]

A single act of love makes the soul return to life.

St. Maximilian Kolbe

[growing-the-garden]

There is no greater joy than when a soul finds their way back to God.

Alice von Hildebrand quoting her husband Dietrich von Hildebrand

[growing-the-garden]

God, in His Goodness, shows us only a small part of the path He is leading us on; had I seen the whole trajectory at once, the coward sleeping in me would have refused the challenge.

Alice von Hildebrand

[by-grace-of-god]

Le Mont Saint-Michel, France

[growing-the-garden]

Love that cannot suffer is not worty of that name.

St. Clare of Assisi

[by-grace-of-god]

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

C. S. Lewis

[sermoveritas-deactivated2023030]

Love God, serve God: everything is in that.

St. Clare of Assisi

[a-joyfuljourney]

We love because He first loved us.

1 John 4:19

[ashlinakaposta]

[handmaidfullofgrace]

Prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.

Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2560