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Meditation

Place before God the desires you have for each one of the people you wish to pray for....See each one of them, in imagination, as having the things you desire for them....You need not make an explicit prayer for them.  It is enough to expose God to your holy desires.... and to see those desires fulfilled.
 
What you have done for individuals, do now for families and groups and communities....for all nations, for the Church....Have the courage to overcome all defeatism and pessimism and desire and hope for great things....and see these great things as actually fulfilled by the might power of God....
 
Now place before God the desires you have for yourself: Expose him to all the great things you desire to do in his service....The fact that you will never actually do them, or that you feel incapable of doing them, is irrelevant....What is important is that you gladden the heart of God by showing him how immense your desires are even though your strength is very small...it is thus that lovers speak when they express the immensity of their desires, which far outdistance their limited capacity....