Dear God, grant me strength. I feel diminished in the face of all I ought to do today. Walk with me, Lord. Take my hand and guide me. Let me have the willingness to do your will without shirking or shying away.

Fill my mouth with the right words, guide my feet on the right path, move my hands toward the right ends, bend my thoughts toward the right aims.

Take away my selfish will. Let me act as you would have me do.

(Letter #908)

Dear God, sometimes I feel I live in a constant state of preparation, awaiting some time in the future when I will have those virtues I now seek, when those defects with which I now struggle will have been removed. I am seeking now for improvement later.

Lord, let me see today for the gift it is. Let me recognize that I live in the present, that I am not in rehearsal. The show is on.

It is the exerting of virtues, the struggle against defects, that is the stuff of my life. Let me, Lord, bring true effort into today’s spiritual tasks. Let me express today my higher self.

(Letter #907)

Dear God, how shall I best serve you today? I have plans to be a productive and helpful person. Let me not hold on too tightly to my agenda. Let me seek and hear your guidance throughout the day.

Today, Lord, let me not be smug. When I act as I ought, when I fulfill my obligations, I get such a prideful sense of satisfaction. I want to tell people of my good works, when I am only doing my duty.

Today, Lord, let me labor in secret, doing what I ought for no other reason than that this is what you require of me.

Let me be anonymous, unheralded. Let me seek no attention and avoid the limelight. Let me just be one among many, a worker among workers.

Thy will be done.

(Letter #906)

Dear God, you allow me to go through the day, if I so wish, under the illusion that I am alone in this world, that I alone must address the tasks and challenges placed before me. What a burden this way of thinking is. I have only finite energy, yet it takes almost constant effort to live this way.

Lord, you have shown me a better way. The truth is that you are there with me, if I only but seek you. You place all of the pieces in my life, and provide the power and energy needed in exact supply. There is always enough.

Lord, you are a source of abundance. I need but see it all around me.

Thank you for opening my eyes to your loving presence and your power. Let me avail myself of it. Let me not shut myself off from you by obstinately placing myself at the center of everything.

My experience has been that, if I try to do your will, if I seek to know your will, if I exert myself on behalf of those around me — that I feel your presence. Let me view any sense of fatigue I have as a reminder that you are the one with the power. Let it remind me to seek you.

Grant me eyes to see, ears to hear. You are present. Let me touch you.

(Letter #905)