Prayer

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Dear Jesus, help us to spread your fragrance everywhere we go.Flood our souls with your spirit and life. Penetrate and possessour whole being so utterly, that our lives may only be a radianceof yours. Shine through us, and be so in us, that every person weshould come in contact with may feel your presence in our soul.Let them look up and see no longer us, but only Jesus. Stay withus, and then we shall begin to shine as you shine; so to shineas to be a light to others; the light, Jesus, will be all from you.None of it will be ours. It will be you shining on others throughus. Let us thus praise you in the way you love best, by shiningon those around us. Let us preach you without preaching:not by words, but by our example, by the catching force, thesympathetic infuence of what we do, the evident fullness of thelove our hearts bear for you. Amen.


 — Mother Teresa

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