Lord, we thank You for beginning to feel the breath and weaving of Your Spirit, which wants to urge us, which wants to drive us, which wants to push us further and further. Lord, even when fear burns us, Lord, even when cowardice stabs us, we ask You: do not listen to our fear, do not listen to our cowardice, take us whole, take us with body and blood, take us with body and soul, take us with heart and spirit. Take us entirely into Your holy storm, so that we may flow, so that we may give, so that we may blaze with Your holy love.
(Erich Przywara SJ /1889–1972/, Prayers of this Age, 19; during World War II)
