Autor: Gustavo Rizzo

Lord, I thank You for everything, because I trust in You with all my heart. I know that nothing can happen to me without Your divine permission, and I believe in Your merciful and fraternal love for us, made known through the example of our Master Jesus Christ, who first embraced us with His ineffable, infinite, sublime, and transcendent love.

I trust in You, Lord. I thank You for everything, because You alone are able to see my future and understand how everything that happens to me will guide my life toward my greatest and most glorious dream of living in the wonderful heaven of Your presence.

Lord, my God, I want to thank You today for my health, for my spirit, and for my heart.

Lord, it is You who calm my heart. It is You whom I seek to be the foundation and stronghold of my soul, my spirit, and my heart.

Thank You, Lord, for the invisible graces I receive from Your merciful heart, for the divine peace that surrounds us and that we do not perceive except when we miss it.

Thank You, Master Jesus, for the most blessed Gospel that uplifts our souls and allows us, each day, to overcome the temptations and evils of this world.

Jesus, I love You. Jesus, I trust in You. Jesus, You are everything to me.

Your love was what I missed so deeply within me. What I could not explain, the sadness that had no explanation, the longing I had for something I could not name—it was for You.

Jesus, You are my home, You are my family, You are the place where my soul cries out to be. Thank You, Jesus.

Lord, thank You for bringing me this far and allowing me to understand what I had been searching for so deeply within myself. Finally, I found life, the piece of my heart that was missing.

Today, I feel like doing so many things. I have an energy I did not have before, I have a willingness I did not have before, I have a purpose within me that I did not have before. You gave me a reason why.

Because when I saw the beauty of Your love, my heart was filled for the first time. I know that this love is the healing for all diseases of the soul. I know that this love is a force that fills us with life.

All the strength within me is, in truth, Christ within me.

Lord, everything in my life will be for the glory of Your name. I give up everything for You, Jesus. Nothing in this world, truly nothing, has the effect on me that You do. Empty superficiality no longer touches me; the fleeting pleasures of this world are empty to me. I can no longer feel joy in what is empty. I feel joy only in You.

Lord, there is nothing I can do now except surrender myself. I want Your presence. I do not want to spend my days seeking empty distractions; I want to spend my days with You. I want to live with You both on Earth and in heaven.

I am Yours alone. You hold the key to my entire heart. I have given You everything, and I want to do so again and again. My life is Yours; take care of it, Lord, take care of me. Always set me straight on the gracious path of Your wisdom.

The beauty of Your deeds is immeasurable and cannot be found anywhere outside Your presence. You are the beloved beauty, the most beautiful and sublime in the universe, that which we contemplate, and our hearts burn, our eyes overflow, and our souls are filled with light.

You are the undeniable beauty, the most precious diamond, an eternal smile, the unforgettable gaze.

Yours are grace and glory forever.

Open my eyes to Your light, open my heart to Your love, open my spirit to Your purpose.

Fill me with life, Lord. Fill me with love, Lord. Fill me with purpose. Make of me whatever You wish, Jesus. I want to be only what You want me to be.

Transform me, Jesus. Elevate me. Allow me to see more, allow me to feel more. Do not allow me to stray from the path, do not allow me to forget You, do not allow me to fail in Your mission, Lord.

It is no longer I alone, but Christ who lives in me. Christ is my strength, Christ is my life, Christ is the light in my heart.

I want to feed this fire so that I never allow it to weaken again. I want this fire to burn like a blazing flame of love. You are the tree of life, the precious flame of love, the fire that gives life, the light of our souls.

Make my prayers not merely words, but the expression of what is felt in the heart.

Jesus, I surrender my whole life to You. Make of me whatever You wish. I am Yours, Jesus. You are my Lord; I consecrate my entire life to You.

I surrender everything: everything I have, everything I am, everything I do, into Your hands. I place my heart, my whole soul, my entire being, in You alone.

I trust in You, I trust in Your word, I trust in Your promise.

The return of Christ will take place in each one of us, in our hearts. We do not need Jesus to come in the clouds and make His presence known in the world, because, in truth, He is already here and never left.

Jesus will return when, in our hearts, we allow Jesus to dwell. And everything will be made new: in your life and throughout the whole world.

We do not need to wait for Jesus to return; we need to place Jesus in our hearts right now, and He will be back in our lives.

I want to feel only love. I want to rest in love, I want to rest upon You, Jesus.

At this moment, I feel completely whole, because what was missing within me, in truth, always been with me at every moment; I only needed to recognize it and rest in Your love.

As I feel this love for Christ, I feel love for life, I feel love for the beauty that exists in the expression of life, for how deeply art touches us when we are in contemplation and filled with the love of God. Life is wonderful, life is beautiful, life is grace.

All of this is because of the presence of Jesus in my heart, because this is how He sees us. That is why I need Him, so that He may fill my heart with the same kind of love.

Your grace is glory forever. Your mercy is grace now and forever. Your light illuminates our hearts now and forever.

All light comes from You. All love comes from You. All life comes from You.

Thank You, Jesus.

Thank You for finally making me understand, for finally making me comprehend that all I need is love: my love for You and Your love for me.

Love is everything. Love is what makes everything possible, love is what gives us life, willingness, and joy in being alive. Love is what creates movement, love is what makes our eyes and our souls shine.

Without love, we live withdrawn, still, sad, without strength, apathetic; with love, we live radiant, open, full of life, strength, and energy. Love makes us live full of purpose, desire, and willingness. It is love that nourishes our soul with meaning, purpose, and self-realization; without love, nothing has value, nothing has meaning, nothing has purpose.

Today I understand that the bread I need each day is not the nourishment of the body, but the nourishment of the soul. I need to nourish myself every day with Your love, Jesus. Every day I spend with You makes me happier, more alive, more excited about life.

Your love is everything, because without Your love, I feel empty, I feel insignificant, I feel impoverished in life. My soul longs for Your love, my soul hungers and thirsts for You, and only today do I understand that sadness is the soul’s hunger for Your love.

Only today do I understand that the emptiness of purpose I felt within me throughout my entire life was, in truth, hunger for Your love.

Never again, Lord, will I leave You behind. Never again will I forget You. Never again will I give anything greater priority than You. Because today I understand: I only have life in You.

You are the source of life. Your love conquers death, Your love overflows upon all things and allows everything to exist. Your love, Jesus, is what allows us to have life.

I am grateful to You, Jesus, for finally making me understand what I had been searching for so deeply within myself.

Thank You, Jesus. I will follow You today and eternally. My soul longs only for You.