My Song for Today

My Song for Today

Oh! how I love Thee, Jesus! my soul aspires to Thee -

And yet for one day only my simple prayer I pray!

Come reign within my heart, smile

tenderly on me, 

Today, dear Lord, today. 

But if I dare take thought of what the morrow brings -

That fills my fickle heart with dreary, dull dismay;

I crave, indeed, my God, trials and sufferings, 

But only for today! 

O sweetest Star of heaven!

O Virgin, spotless, blest,

Shining with Jesus' light, guiding to Him my way!

O Mother! 'neath thy veil let my tired spirit rest, 

For this brief passing day! 

Soon shall I fly afar among the holy choirs,

Then shall be mine the joy that never knows decay;

And then my lips shall sing, to heaven's angelic lyres, 

The eternal, glad today!

by Saint Therese of Lisieux