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 This is great, thanks!

Curious about the prayers written by saints now too lol 👀 
 Holy Spirit Prayer of Saint Augustine,
Saint Augustine (354-430) created this poetic prayer to the Holy Spirit:

Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit,
That my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit,
That my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit,
That I love but what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit,
To defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit,
That I always may be holy. 
 (finding lots online, think I need a notebook, or a new npub for collecting prayers could be a good storage system too)

Let nothing disturb you, 
Let nothing frighten you, 
All things are passing away: 
God never changes. 
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing; 
God alone suffices.

 

-- St. Teresa of Avila 
 I have stacks of notebooks full of prayers I’ve written down! Maybe I will make a prayer npub too 🤔 I’ve been getting back into using are.na too idk if you’re on that platform (not part of nostr protocol but its great) https://www.are.na/theresa-maria maybe I will make a prayer channel 
 I have seen that site before. Never joined but looks very interesting. I would love to see a prayer npub. Please tag me if you make this.  
 You tag me in yours too if you do too!!!!! 
 You could make a channel/ album on wavlake of you reading your favourite prayers :) like your video.

I don't have the voice for it. I sound like a dehydrated pickpocket. 
 I keep meaning to add more to my zap stream! Now that I’m not sick I will do that!! I swear!! 
 Your arena page thing is great. I don't really understand it fully, afaik it's about making interconnections of ideas and scrapbooking. If only I could sign up with nostr lol.

 
 It’s almost like a bulletin board where you can pin entire bulletin boards to your bulletin board?? And has a cyberscrapbooky feel too it yeah I could see that! I used it a lot for awhile and then stopped for awhile haha. I need to explore more of the nostr apps again 
 I think npubs are so quick to make and jump about between (on amethyst) that it's quite nice to have one-theme npubs, a scrapbook npub. It can also be semi private just cos the chances are no one will see it. (If you wanted to have one that is just sorta just for personal use, obviously not with private stuff on it). 
 Yeah!! I can’t jump between npubs on Damus really and I mostly use Damus! 
 Ah, maybe Damus will have that soon tho:) 
 Would be nice !! 
 But I didn't really get the system on arena, it's like you have to have some sort of credits to post or something? Doesn't matter, I really don't need to be joining more sites lol 
 They have free accs that are limited and paid premium accs that are limitless! I need to not join more sites too. Just use more of nostr! 
 You posted one I’m very fond of!! Saint Teresa of Avila’s feast day is coming up very soon too! October 15th!! I love nuns