Oh, Lord, I so very much want to depend on you for all my needs, all my nourishment. I want to do your will, to complete the work you have set for me.

But, Lord, there are days, so many days, when I want more nourishment, when I need more of the food only you can provide. I am not trying to be greedy, Lord, but too often, I need something more from you, a sign to show me that this is the right place at the right time, that this is what you want me to do. Feed me, nourish me, on this long journey of mine. Fill my heart and my soul with so much of your love that I don't have to worry about earthly food, earthly needs, earthly distractions, earthly disasters.

I want to feast on you, Lord. But I live in this world, and it is often a dirty, nasty world, filled with more hatred than I think I can handle. I want to be your servant, your peacemaker, but I stumble every day, and descend to the underside of life, and I am starving! Feed me!

We hunger; Lord, supply us, nor thy delights deny us, whose hearts to thee draw nigh. --Latin, 1661 (tr. John A. L. Riley)

PRAY for the Missionary Diocese of Angola (Southern Africa)

Ps 30, 32 * 42, 43; Genesis 12:9-13:1; Hebrews 7:18-28

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