Prayer of the Surrendered Soul
In spite of what condition I am in,
I will follow You, Lord.
In spite of what I experience,
I will follow You, Lord,
because I will only find rest and new strength
when I am standing before Your compassionate Presence.
In spite of what I go through,
in spite of the very difficult and cold spiritual desert,
I will follow You, Lord,
because we absolutely owe it to You,
and there is nothing that prevents us from making our confirmation
to follow Your path of Redemption and Love.
In spite of what I feel,
what I see or believe,
I will follow You, Lord,
because I need to learn to relinquish,
just as You surrendered
for each one of us.
Lord,
do not allow the illusions and mirages
of this world to confuse me.
At each moment, may I find
the luminous and inextinguishable flame
of Your wonderful Love so that,
availing myself of Your deepest and most mysterious Gifts,
I may represent You,
as Your apostle and ambassador of peace.
Lord, do not let
my own miseries
drag me towards the abysses.
Make me brave and cheerful
so that I may always find You
upon my imperfect path.
Sustain me, Lord,
in the moments in which I do not understand
nor manage to transcend everything that surrounds me.
Help me, Jesus,
to be immeasurably merciful.
Take from my consciousness
any sign of mediocrity
and lack of fraternity,
because at the end of this long walk,
in the search of Your Divine Presence,
I will be able to understand, Lord,
that life is a gift of God,
and that it is full of opportunities
so that we can sincerely love,
as You have always loved us.
In spite of the weariness, the misunderstandings
and the most intimate secrets
that You know, Lord,
I will follow You.
Because the great and only merit of my life
will be to serve You and suffer with You
that which You see within the world,
so that ignorance, indifference and futility
may be alleviated from Your Heart,
through the surrender that today I make of my life for You.
Do not abandon me, Jesus.
I need You and wait for You
with the ardor of my human heart.
Amen.
I thank you for keeping this prayer in your hearts!
Who blesses you,
Your Master and Lord, Christ Jesus