"
Grant me Your grace,
O most merciful Jesus,
that it may be with me,
and work with me, and remain with me
to the very end.

Grant that I may always desire and will
that which is most acceptable and pleasing to You.

Let Your will be mine.
Let my will always follow Yours
and agree perfectly with it.
Let my will be one with Yours
in willing and in not willing,
and let me be unable to will or not will
anything but what You will or do not will.

Grant that I may die to all things in this world,
and for Your sake
love to be despised and unknown in this life.

Give me above all desires
the desire to rest in You,
and in You
let my heart have peace.

You are true peace of heart.
You alone are its rest.
Without You
all things are difficult and troubled.

In this peace,
the selfsame that is in You,
the Most High, the everlasting Good,
I will sleep and take my rest.

Amen.
"

Imitation of Christ
Book 3, Chapter 15
Thomas à Kempis
Translation: Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton

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