Dear God, let me see past the surfaces of this world.

Those around me are filled with frothy activity. Let me be slow-moving today. Let my reactions and emotions be deliberate. Let me not add agitation.

Let me be a source of comfort and understanding, not a source of confusion and disquiet.

Let me offer safe harbor today.

(Letter #1335)

Dear God, grant me knowledge of how I might be useful. I so often mouth these words without truly meaning them. Instead, I am concerned with self – my comfort, my safety, my success.

Grant me a better vantage point, Lord. Let me see what is needed that I can provide. Let me do that.

(Letter #1334)

Dear God, you take my burdens from me if only I will lay them at your feet. In this way you relieve me, your child. But you do more: you show me that their weight was always imaginary. These fears and woes that I had to be convinced to relinquish are just mist.

Not only do you grant me relief, but you remind me of the power you have already placed within me. I never needed aid; I could walk free and erect at any time.

Surveying my current woes and cares, let me learn your lesson. Grant me awareness of the freedom I already have.

I have no need to wait for deliverance, Lord: I am already free.

(Letter #1333)

Dear God, there is safety here, in the quiet with you. When I rise and circulate, this circle of calm may dissipate. I may be assailed. Or I may encounter elation.

Lord, when I am flying about, subject to so many forces and feelings, will I be able to recall this quiet moment? This, here, is reality, not the buffeting winds. Those are illusion.

Tomorrow with its tumult is fantasy.

Let me inhabit reality today, sweet Lord. Let it be timeless.

(Letter #1332)