To your hands, my life (Brother Isaiah)

Oh, ah, oh, ah, oh, ah, I AM

You loosen my grip on life

You lighten my heart with your love

You relax my soul

In your tender arms

And you quiet my heart

With this love-filled silence

Yes, you quiet my heart, oh love

To your hands, my life (o love)

To your paths, my feet

To you, O Lord

I abandon everything

For you are good

My every good, o God

And you are true

And your love for me is unwearied, Lord

Yes, your love is so deep, so good

Refrain

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I abandon myself into your hands (Br. Charles de Foucauld)

               Father, I abandon myself into your hands;

               Do with me what you will. 

               Whatever you may do, I thank you;

               I am ready for all, I accept all. 

               Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures.

               I wish no more than this, O Lord.

               Into your hands I commend my soul;

               I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,

               for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,

               to surrender myself into your hands without reserve,

               and with boundless confidence,

               for you are my Father.

               Amen.

--Charles de Foucauld                                

Image source:  John William Waterhouse, The Annunciation (1914), 
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The narrow road of Jesus (Henri Nouwen)

  Suffering and death belong to the narrow road of Jesus.  Jesus does not glorify them, or call them beautiful, good, or something to be desired. Jesus does not call for heroism or suicidal self-sacrifice.  No, Jesus invites us to look at the reality of our existence and reveals this harsh reality as a way to new life. The core message of Jesus is that real joy and peace can never be reached while bypassing suffering and death, but only by going right through them.

  We could say:  we really have no choice.  Indeed, who escapes suffering and death?  Yet there is still a choice.  We can deny the reality of life, or we can face it. When we face it not in despair, but with the eyes of Jesus, we discover that where we least expect it, something is hidden that holds a promise stronger than death itself.  Jesus lived his life with the trust that God’s love is stronger than death and that death therefore does not have the last word.  He invites us to face the painful reality of our existence with the same trust.

--Henri Nouwen,

Show Me the Way

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