The excerpt for this “week” of the study will be the closing prayer, written by Susanna Wesley (She was the mother of John and Charles Wesley and lived from 1669-1742):
“You only, O God can satisfy my immortal soul
and bestow on me those spiritual pleasures,
which alone are proper to its nature.
Grant me grace to stay and centre my soul in you,
that its desires, hopes and expectations of happiness
might be confined only to you;
and that I might have a firm, habitual resignation to your will. Oh that I might love you, my God, with all my heart,
with all my mind, and with all my strength!
That I might so love you as I desire you;
that I might so desire you as to be uneasy without you – without your favour, without some such resemblance to you
as my nature in this imperfect state can bear.”