'Fragrance everywhere I go...'

"For we are to God the fragrance of Christ..."

~2 Corinthians 3:3~

It was amazing to finally be able to put these deep feelings into words. They're not my words, but the feelings were so close and I feel like they could easily be coming from my heart...

"Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your fragrance

  everywhere I go.

Flood my soul with Your spirit and life.

Penetrate and possess my whole being, so utterly,

  that my life may only be a radiance of Yours.

Shine through me, and be so in me,

  that every soul I come in contact with

  may feel Your presence in my soul.

Let them look up and see no longer me,  

  but only Jesus!

Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as

  You shine;

So to shine as to be a light to others."

                                       -John Henry Newman-

 "Holy Father, thank You for helping me to

understand that I can praise You as much in the

ordinary affairs of life as in the unusual and more exciting things.

  Thank You that through the Lord Jesus -

and through Him alone - I can continually offer

to You a sacrifice of praise, I want to praiseYou

as much by my attitudes as by my words and my

actions.

  In the light of Your mercy to me, I want to

do everything for the Lord Jesus.

  I commit myself now - with Your Spirit's

help - to greater thankfulness,  more wholehearted 

work, greater diligence in pursuing holiness

and Christlikness, and joy in giving; please

bring greater praise to Your Name from my life

by these and any other means You choose. For

Jesus' sake. Amen."

                                            -Derek Prime-