When your path is strewn with obstacles, when you no longer know where you stand, pray to your Angel with these words.
My Angel, look at me as you pass…
Take shelter for a moment in my soul,
Smooth it out with a single breath
without showing it, without saying anything to me.
If you want me to believe in You,
Bring me faith.
If you want me to love you,
Bring me love,
As for me, I don't have any more and I can't help it!
I give you what I have: my weakness, my pain
and this tenderness that torments me…
My pain, only my pain, that's all!
And my hope...
I haven't set anything aside for you.
Nothing, not a single good deed, I was too tired.
Nothing, not a single kind word, I was too sad.
All that is left is the disgust of living, boredom, and sterility.
I need to be happy...
And all I have are troubles, anxieties, doubts, …
My Angel, here I am, like a rag-and-bone man,
You go, gathering up waste and refuse,
What are you going to do, my Angel?
What will you do for me?
I don't know where I'm going,
I can't see the road ahead of me,
I cannot predict with certainty where it will lead,
I don't really know myself...
And, if I sincerely believe I am following Your will,
That doesn't mean I conform to it, alas…
However, I believe that my desire to please you pleases you.
I hope to have this desire at the heart of everything I do,
and never to do anything in the future without that desire.
By acting in this way,
I know that You will lead me on the right path,
even if I don't know her myself.
So I will always trust you,
even when I feel like I’ve lost my way
and that I walk in the shadow of death,
I will no longer have any fear, for You are always with me
And never, never will You leave me alone in peril.
Thank you, my Angel, thank you for listening to me.
