let nothing disturb you

I don’t know why and I can’t say how this is so, but there's one thing I have discovered: when I’m discouraged and worried, prayer always seem to help.

Here’s an old prayer that has brought me great comfort, time and time again. It’s a prayer by St. Teresa de Avila. I find it helps me immeasurably to meditate slowly on the simple truth of this short prayer. I invite you to do the same.

Let nothing disturb you,

nothing affright you;

all things are passing—

God never changes.

Patient endurance attains to all things.

Whom God possesses in nothing is wanting;

alone God suffices.

Amen.