Do you now possess the needed strength to perfectly accomplish such holy requirements?
To love our eternal King with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our minds and with all our strength?
We do not.
We are weak and inconsistent, and often buffeted by fear and pride and selfishness. But being impoverished and ill-equipped as we are, we will look to the grace of God and to the sanctifying work of the Spirit to accomplish his purposes in and through us this day, as we, in grateful response, seek to choose that which pleases him.
We open our hearts anew to you this morning, O Lord, that the love of the Father and the life of Christ and the breath of the Spirit would quicken within us a greater affection for your ways.
Work your will in us, Lord Christ.
From A Liturgy of the Hours: Daybreak, Every Moment Holy
Smitten With Goodness 