Dear God, thinking about attending to all the small trials throughout the day I will face brings with it anxiety and sullen resentment. Imagining my chores, errands, and challenges vexes me.

Lord, you call me to be a being of love, to bring charity to my life. Cure my attitude, that I may be loving. Take away al these gnawing emotions. I look high and low for problems to which to affix my attention. Let me spend the same mental energy seeking joys to notice.

Lord, let gratitude and love fill me, that my small, self-centered impulses become expelled, erased.

Let me be more loving, more giving, more grateful, more charitable today.

Thy will be done.

(Letter #1057)

Dear God, as I try to fulfill all my obligations today, walk with me and guide me.

Those tasks that cause me fear: correct my attitude. Those that I plan for my own selfish ends: correct my intent. Those about which I am sullen and reluctant: correct my emotions.

Let me have greater humility and joy today. Let these be my offerings to you.

(Letter #1056)

Dear God, let me not think of myself today. Let me not pursue my own aims, trying persistently to arrange things for my own benefit. Let me, instead, seek your will. Let me act contrary to my own desires, helping others, giving even to my own detriment. You grant me strength. Let me use it to a good end, not selfishly to advance my own cause.

Lord, let me listen for your calling. Let me be willing to hear your guidance. Let me be willing to act as you would have me do, whatever the supposed cost.

Let me erase myself, that I might build others. Surely this is the path you would have me tread. Let me walk it with purpose.

(Letter #1055)

Dear God, stay with me today. Walk right here beside me. I need you next to me, guiding me, taking me by the nose from station to station.

Point my gaze toward what you would have me see. Let this crowd out all my other thoughts. Let me consider nothing but what you set right before my nose.

Guide me, let me willingly and obediently follow.

(Letter #1054)