The City of God

The City of God

Blessed are those who count not the need of the self
above the need of their brother,
who have given of their penury
rather than their abundance.

For theirs are the hearts
which have touched the Kingdom of God,
discerning the poverty of the world’s wealth
and wisely grasping the wealth of a charitable Spirit.

Holy Father of Creation,
let me not covet the coins of the world.

For it is written,
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Give me the wisdom of the widow,
to cast away all which blinds my eyes
to the Ways of the Kingdom.

Blind my eyes to the things of this world,
fixing them instead on the Land of the Promise,
the city of foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.

Luke 21:1-4
1 Timothy 6:10
Hebrews 11:9-10