Like many of you, I still have young children at home. So please don’t judge me, when I say; that no matter how hard I try, I still fear death. Not so much for myself but for my family that I would leave behind.
I do worry about the afterlife as well and if I am worthy of salvation.
This beautiful prayer helped immensely, but I still have a long way to go.
I will keep trying with the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Desire God Alone
O most tender and gentle Holy Ghost, who on the holy day of Pentecost did so take possession of the hearts of Your apostles and so inspire them with love for heavenly things that from inexpressible love to God they were ready, if necessary, to go to Him through a thousand deaths.
I pray Thee, to inflame my heart in such a manner with love for divine and heavenly things that from my whole heart I may desire God alone and esteem death with all its pains as nothing.
Amen.
From My Key To Heaven (c) 1942