A HANDFUL OF PRAYERS THAT I COMPOSED

Lord, teach me to listen, to pray, to wait and see, to speak, to

read and write, to plan, to breathe, to meditate, think, to kill only when necessary, to eat, to sleep, to work, to play, to mate, to live and die properly.

AMEN.

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Thank you Lord for what you’ve given me and I forgive everyone their wrongs. 

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Reject us, O Lord, from the devil’s hand. 

And then protect and defend us, O Lord, from the devil’s hand.

Release us, O Lord, from the devil’s hand. 

And then deliver us, O Lord, from the devil’s hand.

AMEN.

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Dear Lord God, when I want to say something, but I can’t find the word to use, please don’t let me say anything until I have found le mot juste.

If or when I don’t have anything to say, please don’t let me say anything.

Assuming I do have something to say, please let me just say it,

and when I’ve SAID what was necessary, please shut my mouth.

AMEN.

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Lord, let me listen as well as I can

and be prepared for death when it comes.

AMEN.