My Song of Praise and Thanksgiving

S. Ma. Luz M., RVM

All praise and thanksgiving be Yours, O my God,
for creating me and molding me by Your love.

Thanks for being always there for me
in good times and in bad
in joy and in pain
in hopefulness and in hopelessness
in strength and in weakness.

Thanks for parents
who loved and cared for me
according to their God-given capacity.

Thanks for brothers and sisters
whose support and respect for me
give me strength to continue growing to be the best that I can be.

Thanks for friends and significant others who stood by me
and who continue to stand by me
especially during times when I feel so burdened and weary.

Thanks for my Sisters in the Congregation
who challenge and test me and, at the same time,
strengthen my will to love, to live, to care, to give,
to grow to be a Christian witness
truly made in Your image and likeness.

Thanks for the love and service You have inspired in me
to share with others, especially those deprived materially.

Somehow, You have made me Your little light
leading the poor to the beautiful reality
that You are just there
with all the love and care
Your ever-compassionate heart can offer.

Painful they may be . . . thanks for the times
when I deeply plunged into my weaknesses,
my pride, my infidelities, my compromises
for they have made me feel and see
the depth of Your unconditional love and compassion for me.

I do feel so undeserving of Your concern, O God.

But You assure me day by day that Your love
is so much bigger than my sins and failings
and so much deeper than my insecurities and fears.

Thank You, God, for being ever-merciful and loving.

For choosing me to be Yours,

For letting me know that You know I chose You, too
and will continue to choose You,
O my God, thank You.

By Your grace, bless me and strengthen me
that I may have no other LOVER but YOU
and that I may give my life wholly and only to YOU. Amen.