Daily Reading for May 31 • The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

How awesome to be in the presence
Of you, Lord, the One
Who brings Good News. . . .

How delightful the indwelling of
Your Holy Spirit,
Who has set on fire my battered heart,
Babbled my twisted tongue,
Strengthened my feeble knees
And
Purified my sin-sick soul. . . .

Your name will be forever glorified
In the songs that I sing,
The tears that I shed,
and
In all of my afflictions.
Lift up my words.
Humble my pride.
Let my love for you be shown.
Not only with my lips,
But in the life that I live.

From “An Awesome Lord” by Joanne Starks, quoted in Women’s Uncommon Prayers: Our Lives Revealed, Nurtured, Celebrated edited by Elizabeth Rankin Geitz, Marjorie A. Burke, and Ann Smith. Copyright © 2000. Used by permission of Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. www.morehousepublishing.com