I want to learn to love myself

and in turn open my heart to loving all of you.

To love what you love as beautifully and as fully as you do. 

To accept and cherish them as you have.

To care for them with all the burning passion my whole being can give.

To be happy for I am filled with love. Love so immense that I have no choice but to keep on loving.

Let me love myself and let me love you.

Prayer of offering

Lord Jesus,

I give you my hands to do your work.

I give you my feet to go your way.

I give you my eyes to see as you do.

I give you my tongue to speak your words.

I give you my mind that you may think in me.

I give you my spirit that you may pray in me.

Above all

I give you my heart that you may love in me,

your Father, and all mankind.

I give you my whole self that you may grow in me,

so that it is you, Lord Jesus,

who live and work and pray in me.

God be in my head, and in my understanding,

God be in my eyes, and in my looking,

God be in my mouth, and in my speaking

God be in my heart, and in my thinking 

God be at my end, and at my departing

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