It’s true, Lord, that you are always thinking of us.
It’s true from the beginning of time, before we existed,
Even before the world existed,
You have been dreaming of me,
Thinking of me, Loving me.
Not assembly line, but unique,
The first one so made, and the last,
Indispensable to humanity.
It’s true that you have an eternal plan for me alone,
A wonderful plan that you have always cherished in your heart,
As a father thinks over the smallest details in the life of his little on still unborn.
It’s true that, always bending over me, you guide me to bring your plan about,
Light on my path and strength for my soul.
It’s true that you are saddened when I stray or run away, but that you hasten to pick me up if I stumble or fall.
Lord, you make bald heads, but above all beautiful lives.
You, the divine Attentive One, the divine Patient One, the divine Present One.
See that at no time I forget your presence.
I don’t ask you to bless what I have decided to do, but give me the grace to discover and to live what you have dreamed for me.
Lord, living in your grace, let me share a little, through the attention I give to others, your loving care for us.
Let me, on my knees adore in them the mystery of your created love.
Let me respect your idea of them without trying to impose my own.
May I allow them to follow the path that you have marked out for them without trying to take them along mine.
May I realize that they are indispensable to the world, and that I can’t do without the least of them.
May I never tire of looking at them and enriching myself with the treasures you have entrusted to them.
Help me to praise you in their journeyings, to find you in their lives.
Grant that not an instant of their existence go by,
Not a hair of their heads fall,
By me, as by you, unheeded.
