My Lord, help me to discern you will for my life. I come before you, wretched and pitiful. This world, I will leave. It is not my home. I look forward to that joyous day when I will be united with you. I am yours, God, I am your instrument, here on earth. I desire, Lord, to reject the worldly things of earth. Just bestow on me your grace and guidance that I may not only fulfill your will to the fullest of my abilities, but achieve above and beyond these, for you, and by your enabling.
– From his Prayer Journal, August 23, 2014
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The permanence of God’s beauty
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“If you give me anything, let me love Jesus.”
“I am your servant” — painting the Baptism of Christ
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Ready to receive you (an Advent prayer)
“An intense desire.” A longing to depart from this fallen world.
“Why are you afraid?” Isaac’s final journal entry
“Moved to tears: the meaning behind Isaac’s gravestone”
“The reward of distracted prayer” (November 27th)
“The end of all beauties” (November 21s
“Memento mori” (November 18th)
“Root out my sin” (November 15th)
“Let me suffer” (November 12th)
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