Offer Up Your Trials

My last post was about the trials I encounter taking care of my mother. Thank you for reading and all of your encouragement here and on Facebook. One friend suggested the practice of “offering” trials up to God, and that is my focus this week.

I found an article from Our Catholic Prayers which elaborates on the practice of offering up problems or situations. Like any other trial or challenge, these times make us better people in the long run. Here is a prayer I share with you today:

Dear Lord, during this trial,
I offer up to you my confusion
Give me clarity
I offer up to you my despair
Give me hope
I offer up to you my weakness
Give me strength
I offer up to you my pettiness
Give me generosity of spirit.
I offer up to you all my
Negative thoughts from Satan
So that when he asks ‘Where is Your God now?”
I may respond “Right here with me, giving me His grace
As a Heavenly beam of light penetrating your darkness!”

“As the well-known Catholic author Peter Kreeft once wrote,our suffering can help both ourselves and others we may not even know. As he put it “If we are ‘in Christ’, we, like him, can offer up our sufferings to the Father—and he uses them. They become seeds, or rainwater, and something beautiful springs up that we seldom see in this life.””

It is comforting to know that my trials are going to help someone and that I will become a better person in the long run. Blessings to you this week.

ML