Prayer of Thoughts

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Prayer of Thoughts

Thanks for the hardship and pain I experienced as a
child; the sickness and death I survived. They were only
lessons I learned in becoming a man, and not punishment and
guilt for things I had only thought in my mind.

Thanks for the painful need for acceptance I had as I
tried to replace the loves I had lost. The need gave me an
understanding and empathy for others with even a greater
need for love and understanding than myself. It gave me
the way to gain my acceptance by giving my love to other
even more barren hearts.

Thanks for the loss of a parent, so needed, so loved.
It taught me by example of my mother's equal loss and how
strong a human can be in the face of tragedy. Her dignity
and strength were beyond my comprehension and yet, through
her example, I learned.

Thanks for the strength and hope through each stage of
life to continue to improve and understand not only my own
life but also all my brothers and sisters of the world. It
is only through loving ourselves that we can understand the
meaning and true beauty in the greatest gift of love.

Thanks above all for being a caring and loving God who
resides within each of us to remind us that impossible is
possible and that forgiveness is not only possible but
necessary.

And most importantly of all, thank you for reminding
us that love is the key to all the questions, fears and
desires in our small but beautiful world of yesterdays,
todays and tomorrows.

By John W. Doll