Saint Charbel's Family  "They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer"  Acts 2-42

I asked

I asked for strength

that I might achieve;

I was made weak

that I might learn humbly to obey.

I asked for health

that I might do greater things;

I was given infirmity

that I might do better things.

I asked for riches

that I might be happy;

I was given poverty

that I might be wise.

I asked for power

that I might have the praise of men;

I was given weakness

that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life;

I was given life

that I might enjoy all things.

I got nothing that I had asked for,

But everything that I had hoped for.

Almost despite myself

my unspoken prayers were answered;

I am, among all men, most richly blessed.

Unknown.

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