May God grant you always a sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel so nothing can harm you, laughter to cheer you, faithful friends near you, and whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you.  PS. Our faith in God is easy when the waters ’round are stilled, when the voyage undertaken finds our dreams and hopes fulfilled.  But holding on to God is hard when wrestling with our doubt, and when the storms are fiercest, and our boat is tossed about.  It’s then that our faith is shaken, when the Master’s sound asleep, not knowing we are sinking, and the waters ’round are deep.  We wonder then how He, Who’s Lord of all the land and sea, could seem to be so unaware of our catastrophe.  It’s when our faith seems weakest, God will calm the sea and soul and when we are most broken that He’ll touch, and make us whole.

fromthe Carmelite Nuns of Hudson WI

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