Increase My Love For You, My God Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

My God, from all eternity
You have gone before me
with Your infinite love.

Increase my love for You.

God has an immense desire
to work in your soul,
to lead you to sanctity
and to union with Himself.

Commit yourself into His hands,
despoiled of every attachment,
annihilated in your self-love,
entirely docile, malleable,
and adaptable to His action.

The Lord comes to your assistance
with purifying trials in order
to empty you of self,
to detach you from creatures,
to immerse you in true humility,
but at the same time, He helps
you to grow in selfless love.