Grant, oh Lord, that I may seek to comfort rather than seek to be comforted, to understand rather than seek to be understood, to love rather than seek to be loved.
The longer I live, the still-more-spiritual-growth I seek, the more I come back to that sentence, to that three-part petition.
It's like the legend of "This, too, shall pass," which is said to fit every good, bad, boring, exciting, thrilling, terrifying situation we shall ever experience in life. Same goes in our spiritual life with that sentence from the Prayer of Saint Francis.
No matter how high, heading toward spiritually arrogant, we feel...or low, going for false humility, for that matter...we will have only three spiritual needs...to seek to comfort (others), to seek to understand (others), to seek to love (others). We'll have a boatload of other wants, but we'll only have those three needs. Remembering always that needs are of God, wants are all me.
According to me, how well we are able to sincerely live those three things will determine our spiritual condition, our free-from-me serenity.
Thank you.
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