Help Us Never to Forget...

Father in Heaven! You have loved us first, 
help us never to forget that You are love so that this sure conviction might triumph in our hearts

over the seduction of the world,

over the inquietude of the soul, over the anxiety for the future,

over the fright of the past,
over the distress of the moment.

But grant also that this conviction might discipline our soul
so that our heart might remain faithful and sincere
in the love which we bear to all those whom You have commanded us to love as we love ourselves.

~ Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Michael Barnett