A Prayer For College Students

God has created me to do some definite service; God has committed some work to me which has not been committed to another.  I have my mission -- I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.

I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. God has not created me for naught. I shall do good. I shall do God's work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place.

Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away.  If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve the Lord; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve the Lord; if I am in  sorrow, my sorrow may serve the Lord. God does nothing in vain. Therefore I will trust in the Lord.

-Cardinal John Henry Newman    

Let Go & Let God 

As children bring their broken toys,
with tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God,
because He is my friend.
But then instead of leaving Him
in peace to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help
with ways that were my own.
At last, I snatched them back again and cried,
"How can you be so slow?"
"My child," He said, "What could I do?
You never did let go."

-Author Unknown
Remember: Matthew 7:7