Dear God, I am seeking you. Let me not turn down blind alleys and look where I know you not to be. If I am to seek, let me do so where you may be found

O! How often do I fool myself through misdirected effort. I plow the fields in fallow land. I seek counsel from fools. I pile high tiny scraps of foil thinking it treasure.

Lord, let me do what is simple today. Show me where I am wasting my days.

(Letter #1,525)

Dear God, do I stand at a fork in the road? Let me see rightly. All these moment by moment choices – which are consequential?

Grant me persistence in seeking and doing your will. Grant me discernment over whether my choice is to go on or not – or whether my choice is to change my pathway.

I cannot see around the bend in this road. Grant me faith and willingness to walk forward nonetheless.

(Letter #1,524)

Dear God, let me see clearly today.

A meadow stretches before me: it is not a uniform green carpet. Let me see the edible leaves I seek.

I am assailed: let me hear the lesson being delivered.

Even in ease: let me see the gifts of your hand and thus build gratitude.

Let me be awake to what is truly happening around me.

(Letter #1,523)

Dear God, I beg you to let me live love, to bring love to my fellows. What, then, must I do? My thinking must be reordered. To live love, I must think love.

Let me harbor the kindest thoughts about all my fellows. Let me have forgiveness and compassion. Such a simple task, dear Lord. Yet so difficult.

Let this simple task burn away the gilding. My life and actions need not be ornate. The plain table will hold more than the carved and figured one, whose legs have been weakened by decoration.

Let me think simple love toward all today. Let me be the world’s steward.

(Letter #1,522)