Katie's prayer: Matt Maher's "Sing Over Your Children"

Out of the depths you cry

Come and be satisfied

Yesterday I talked about re-learning that God needs to be the center of my life. Today I'm going to share with you the one thing that has slowly become the center of my life that I'm currently working on fixing. I have been waiting so long for God to send me that perfect guy that I can spend the rest of forever with. Waiting so long that I think God has forgotten about me, and so it's up to me to fix it. So I plan and wish and I hope. All the while while God is saying "Be Satisfied with Me." I have read and re-read the poem Be Satisfied with Me by St. Anthony of Padua many many times. Tonight, I was reminded of that poem and it's my prayer for tonight.

Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone,

To have a deep soul relationship with another,

To be loved thoroughly and exclusively.

But to a Christian, God says, "No, not until you are satisfied, fulfilled and content

With being loved by Me alone,

With giving yourself totally and unreservedly to Me,

With having an intensely personal and unique relationship with Me alone.

Discovering that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found,

Will you be capable of the perfect human relationship that I have planned for you.

You will never b united with another until you are united with Me alone.

Exclusive of anyone or anything else,

Exclusive of any other desires or longings.

I want you to stop planning, stop wishing,

And allow Me to give you the most thrilling plan existing,

One that you cannot imagine.

Please allow Me to bring it to you.

You just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest things.

Keep experiencing the satisfaction that I Am.

Keep listening and learning the things I tell you.

You just wait. That's all. Don't be anxious. Don't worry.

Don't look at the things you think you want;

You just keep looking off and away up to Me,

Or you'll miss what I want to show you.

And then, when you are ready,

I'll surprise you with a love far more wonderful than any

You could dream of.

You see, until you are ready and until

The one I have for you is ready

(I am working even at this moment to have you both ready at the same time),

Until you are both satisfied exclusively with Me

And the life I prepared for you,

You won't be able to experience the love that

Exemplified your relationship with Me.

And this is the perfect love.

And dear one, I want you to have this most wonderful love,

I want you to see in the flesh a picture of your relationship with Me.

And to enjoy materially and concretely

The everlasting union of beauty, perfection and love

That I offer you with Myself.

Know that I love utterly.

I Am God.

Believe it and be satisfied.