CowPi Journal

Take and Receive

28 February 2006, 6 am | Prayer

Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,
     my memory, my understanding
     and my entire will—
     all I have and call my own.
You have given all to me;
     to you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace;
     that is enough for me. Amen.

— St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, #234

This prayer is also known as a “suscipe”. Suscipe is a Latin word meaning “to uphold” and refers to Psalm 119:116.

Uphold me, O God, according to your word and I shall live; do not fail me in my hope.