Friday Lenten Prayer

"Speak that I may hear, Lord, my heart is listening; open it that it may hear Thee say to my soul I am Thy salvation.  Hearing that word, let me come in haste to lay hold upon Thee.  Hide not Thy face from me.  Let me see Thy face even if I die, lest I die with longing to see it. 
The house of my soul is too small to receive Thee: let it be enlarged by Thee.  It is all in ruins: do Thou repair it.  There are things in it that must offend Thy gaze, I confess and know.  But who shall cleanse it? or to what other besides Thee shall I cry out."
~Confessions, by St Augustine