Father God:
Inflame my coldness with the fire of Your love. Enlighten my blindness with the brightness of Your presence. Turn all earthly things to bitterness for me, all grievance and adversity to patience, all lowly creation to contempt and oblivion. Raise my heart to You in heaven and suffer me not to wander on earth. From this moment to all eternity will You alone grow sweet to me, for You alone are my food and drink, my love and my joy, my sweetness and my total good.
–Thomas à Kempis
An amazing prayer that I hope I “grow into.”