“My son, may you give your heart to me each day, knowing, trusting and believing that I am with you and that these words, born in love that is eternal, are true for your heart. I shall guide you in my mercy.”

‘Yes, Father, may the Holy Trinity fulfill my heart and life for this path of love to which you have called me. Thank you for all that you have given me. I pray to honor and to be obedient, that you may guide me in discipline, in truth, according to your will. May the light of the joy of your love, consume me. Take me, Father, as you desire.

I thank you for the dream of my childhood with my mother that awakened my soul to what I was taught and value and honor in truth by her. For until the moment of her passing, her last words to me were, ‘I love you.’ These were our last words. But that was a love so great, fulfilled by you, my Lord, that I must speak up now to honor everything that she and my father taught me. And I thank you for the gift of their lives, for the gift and having had them as my parents.

My Lord, you have taken me to places, as you have said and promised, beyond a life that I could have ever imagined. I humbly pronounce your glory, that I may continue your path to honor and serve you. I pray to be righteous in love.

Yes, take me as you desire.’