"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain"
John 15, 16

Jesus wept

"When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled, and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to Him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus wept."
John 11:33-35

Where is the Lamb for the sacrifice?

Dear Lord,
I whisper my son's name Benjamin.
Benjamin. Benjamin. His very name is pain for me.
Sweet sweet Benjamin. How I miss him Lord. I beg your bear with me during this time of weakness. I am so weak. So very very very weak. Bear with me. Please do not abandon me.
Maria

"Father I carry the wood, and you carry the flame -
but where is the lamb for the sacrifice of praise?
I said God will provide, what He asks for we must give.
Oh God I trust in You.
Lord I do not undestand, but my love for You is true.
Oh God I trust in You."
(Abraham's Offering - CD D. Rose, Pursue Me)

Walk on, walk on

"Walk on, walk on
with wind at your back,
and a prayer for your new life beginning,
you've been given to me by the Good Maker's Hands
now my gift to the Lord is returning -
and I'll bless your path with the stars at night,
andthe smile of the day as its dawning
-and if I never walk beside you again,
we will dance at the Gates of Heaven
oh we'll dance at the Gates of Heaven."

Sr Rose's father (CD Pursue Me, Gates of Heaven)

In Your Hands now

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

-William Butler Yeats

Prayer - ripple effect

"I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives."

Peter Kreeft