COME TO ME CHRIST

COME TO ME, O CHRIST, AS THE GOOD SHEPHERD

O CHRIST, BELOVED SON OF GOD! THOU DIDST EMBARK ON A STORM-TOSSED SEA OF PREJUDICED MINDS. THEIR CRUEL THOUGHT WAVES LASHED THY TENDER HEART.

THY TRIAL ON THE CROSS WAS AN IMMORTAL VICYORY OF HUMILITY OVERFORCE,OF SOUL OVER FLESH.  MAY THINE INEFFABLE EXAMPLE HEARTEN US TO BEAR BRAVELY OUR LESSER CROSSES.

O GREAT LOVER OF ERROR-TORN HUMANITY! IN MYRIAD HEARTS AN UNSEEN MONUMENT HAS ARISEN TO THE MIGHTIEST MIRACLE OF LOVE-THY WORDS. "FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO".

MAYEST THOU REMOVE FROM OUR EYES THE CATARACTS OF IGNORANCE, THAT WE SEE THE BEAUTY OF THY MESSAGE: "LOVE EVEN THY ENEMIES AS THY=SELF.  SICK IN MIND OR ASLEEP IN DELUSION, THEY ARE STILL THY BROTHERS."

O COSMIC CHRIST, MAY WE, TOO, CONQUER THE SATAN OF DIVIDING SELFISHNESS THAT PREVENTS THE GATHERING IN SWEET ACCORD OF ALL MEN IN THE ONE FOLD SPIRIT.

AS THOU ART PERFECTION, YET WERT CRUCIFIED, TEACH US NOT TO RESENT THE INVITABLE TESTS OF LIFE: THE DAILY CHALLENGE TO OUR FIRTITUDE BY ADVERSITIES, OUR SELF-CONTROL BY TEMPTATION, AND OUR GOOD WILL BY MISUNDERSTANDING.

PURIFIED BY CONTEMPLATION ON THEE, INNUMERABLE DEVOTEES PERFUME THEIR LIVES WITH EMANATIONS FROM THY FLOWER SOUL.  O GOOD SHEPHERD! THOU LEADEST THY COUNTLESS FLOCK TO THE EVERGREEN PASTURES OF PEACE.

OUR DEEPEST ASPIRATION IS TO SEE THE HEAVENLY FATHER WITH OPEN EYES OF WISDOM, AS THOU DOST, AND TO KNOW LIKE THAT WE ARE VERILY HIS SONS.   AMEN.