Dear God, there is enough. Plenty to go around. Abundance. You shine on every creature, every human being. You shine on me no less than my neighbor.

Lord, let me not grasp and strive. Let me calmly walk through this land that you have made, doing your will. Let me turn my gaze toward others I can help. Let me glide from act to act, delivering your help at each meeting.

Let me glow.

(Letter #1031)

Dear God, I am thinking of myself. My own will, my status, my comfort. Self.

Such a dead end this is. Such a narrow view of life.

God, let me please turn my gaze to the world. Let me look around me, at all the opportunities to do your will. they are strewn all about me.

Let me not concern myself with my self. Lord, enter my thoughts and force them away from my inwardness.

(Letter #1030)

Dear God, let me live here, now, in the present. Today I have plenty to do. Let me focus on the tasks and events that are right here before me.

My thoughts drift forward into the future and I find myself no longer inhabiting this day. I can barely recollect what happened mere moments ago, for I am not even here.

Lord, draw me back to this day. Let me bring all my energies to bear on the present tasks.

(Letter #1029)

Dear God, let me not shrink from effort today. I have the choice to act on all the opportunities you present to be of service, to be helpful, to be useful, to be responsible. They each beckon, a gift. Yet more often, I will sit idly, watching each of these opportunities pass by like branches in a slow river. They float by, in easy reach, but soon they are gone, disappeared around the bend.

Lord, let me live today with urgency to fulfill your will. You created me for a reason, not to take up space and be idle. Let me be filled with energy to do your will today. Let me stand, walk toward challenge and effort, and in this be a beacon to those around me. Let me call them to follow me, as I follow your will.

Let me be your creation today.

(Letter #1028)