RELIGION AND ART

SAINT PATRICK When you cannot go on with the burden and challenges of life let this be a reflection, and call for repentence. We must pay for all our actions or those of other people.   Let this passage be your reflection.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Deuteronomy 32                                                                 The Song of Moses Earth and sky hear my words, listen closely to what I say. My teachings will fall like drops of rain, and form on the earth like dew. My words will fall like showers on young plants, like gentle rain on young plants. I will praise the name of the Lord and his people will tell of his greatness. The Lord is your mighty defender, perfect and just in all his ways. Your God is faithful and true he does what is right and fair. But you

Be good to me, your servant, so that I may live and obey your teachings.   Open my eyes, so that I may see the wonderful truths in your law. Thoughts of Solitude My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.   I cannot see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.   Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.   But I believe that the desire to please you does, in fact, please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.   And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, will I trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. Prayer   Heavenly Father, let me feel close to Thee.   G