Dear God, come sit next to me. Let me feel your presence like a friend. Whispere into my ear your instructions for the day. As I rise and set about enacting them, hold my hand and guide me to each station. Strengthen me when I falter, stiffen my backbone when I become fearful – as now.

I delay the start of the day out of fear. Drive me forward and let me act rightly in spite of my worries and cares. Let me truly, fully rely on you.

(Letter #1076)

Dear God, let me listen for your guidance. It may not come; you may not speak to me. It is in the listening that the value resides. When seeking guidance, I am not directing myself.

Lord, let me abandon my plans and to do list. Let me act as you direct me, at every moment. When I hear no direction, let me wait. I am tempted to fill the space with my own sense of industry. But let me wait, reflecting on my relationship with you.

(Letter #1075)

Dear God, thank you for my relationship with you.

Thank you for my relationship with family.

Thank you for willingness to be teachable.

Thank you for the love you show me in all things.

Let me please do your will today. Let me deny myself in favor of honoring you.

Thy will be done.

(Letter #1074)

Dear God, dread creeps upon me, yet I cannot pinpoint its cause. I know the day’s tasks, I have sufficient resources. Yet still, a cloud of worry hovers. Even amidst my gratitude, there it is. Even as my faith in you persists, there it is.

Lord, I am tempted to ask for relief. But what if you yourself have delivered this worry, that I may better have empathy for others who have more reason to fear then do I?

Let me rise, standing erect, and walk purposefully through my day, irrespective of my feelings. Let me act, precisely as you would have me do.

Let my faith and trust in you grow, that I may improve my actions. Burn away all of my selfish and self-seeking intentions.

Thy will be done today. Let me seek and accept it.

(Letter #1073)

Dear God, I am presented with so many opportunities to become distracted by that which is visible around me. Tasks, interactions, plans, worries.

Let me focus, instead, on what cannot be seen. Let me attend to improving my relationship with you, with better pursuing your will, with arranging my actions so as to beckon others down the road of love.

Let me be a candle you have lit.

(Letter #1072)

Dear God, I am beset, this morning, with thoughts of myself. Plans for advancement. Worries over financial security and social status.

Let me abandon these thoughts of self, O Lord. Let me crowd them out with attention to others’ needs and wants. Let me delight those around me, as a testament to your power.

Let me work to deserve that which you give unconditionally. Let me do your will today.

(Letter #1071)

Dear God, let me be empty, a hole in the air, filled only by you. Let me be a transparent channel through which you flow to others. Let your love move through me outward to all – those I hold worthy and those whom I would shun. Let me not judge who gets your love, but let me try to pass it on to everyone, with no exceptions.

My self-regard blocks this channel all too often. I think of how I can benefit, how I might avoid problems, how I might maintain safety. Stop me, Lord, from all this thinking on self.

Let me be a flowing stream, clear and cool for the parched and weary around me. The river does not seek to protect itself, to allow some to bathe and deny others. Let me act as the river.

Thy will be done today, O Lord.

(Letter #1070)

Dear God, speak to me today. Visit me. Take me by the hand and guide me throughout the day. Let me, therefore, be guided. Let me allow myself to be pulled in your direction.

I struggle so. I am a drowning man pushing away his rescuer. Subdue me and make me compliant, O Lord. Let me efface my will. If I fail, Lord, intercede. Direct me in spite of myself.

Thy will be done.

(Letter #1069)

Dear God, grant that I may act rightly today. I am so filled with what I believe are good intentions. Often what I tell myself is that I have others’ interests at heart, when I really seek only to burnish my own status. Other times I may in fact have right motives – yet I do not take any positive action. I rest idle.

Lord, let me not take from this world, but give to all, furthering your will. Grant me the boundless energy that you shine down upon the world. Let me remain in motion, an engine of your will.

Thy will be done today.

(Letter #1068)

Dear God, there is a higher self, whom I know you would have me be. That self is industrious, kind, responsible, pious. In my actions, yet even more so in my attitudes and thoughts, I fall short. I am slothful, indolent, selfish in my thinking.

Lord, O Lord, guide me. Master my thoughts, for I cannot. Let me have grace, that there be some small space between my abject thoughts and my actions.

Even if I cannot or do not allow my inner life to be ruled, let my outer life conform to your calling. Let me live the life you have established for me, and fulfill the role you have appointed.

Let my higher self rule the lower.

(Letter #1067)