At the last moment, a protector intercedes.

As I am about to step into a pit, a friend grabs my arm.

When they speak ill of me in the taverns, a neighbor offers praise.

Lord, you protect me in so many ways, through so many hands. Grant me awareness to see it.

(Letter #2,679)

Let me expect miracles today.

Restoration. Healing. Growth. Joy.

So many play a part in the miracles that unfold in my life. What role, Lord, have you set for me in others’?

Let me work your miracles, Lord.

(Letter #2,678)

Grant me dependence upon you, Lord, wholly and utterly.

I stand proudly, confident in my abilities. Yet the ground is sand and falls away.

You are bedrock, Lord, unshifting. Let me feel you underfoot, trust the strength of your foundation, abandon my pretensions.

Let me do your will today. Let me trust enough to be willing.

(Letter #2,677)

Do I seek you enough? I will look more intently.

Do I follow your will enough? I will redouble my efforts.

Am I trying too hard, Lord? Let me unclench my jaw, relax my grip.

Your ways are open to all. Grant me ease, Lord.

I am already enough.

(Letter #2,676)

Am I truly willing? How can it be tested? Through great trial? Or through consistent practice?

Lord, let me know my own heart, as you know me.

Bit by bit, let me grow in your image.

(Letter #2,675)

I fear the dawn, for it brings with it a day full of labor.

I fear the eve, for who knows what calamity may befall in the middle of night?

You offer supply, Lord: of materials needed for the job; of resources to survive and thrive, to share even, with those I would help; of wherewithal to face what I would rather not.

Who am I, then, to fear the day? I will be provided what is called for.

(Letter #2,674)

For too long I have carried this glowing coal with me. It warms, yet it burns me. Tending it consumes all my energy. It may burn down my home.

Today, let me drop and leave this cinder.

What will befall me tomorrow, or even later today? Be with me, Lord, and warm me in your arms.

(Letter #2,673)

I will volunteer. You work shoulder to shoulder with me.

I will smile at my fellows. You cheer me and tell me jokes to inspire me.

I will be a friend. You already are my constant companion.

I might change the world with you, Lord, one soul at a time.

(Letter #2,672)

My worries, cares all exist in the world. When I am truly with and guided by you, Lord, and living fully in this moment, my trials dissolve like vapor.

In this present, there is no assailant nor enemy, no foe, no punishment, nor torture.

Lord, be more in my heart, for I live too much in the world. The sun shines, yet I hide in a cave of woe built of past and future.

Let me do your will today, Lord, with and guided by you.

(Letter #2,671)

These sorrows, a they your will for me, Lord? Then they must be working for my benefit.

You place upon me no more burden than I can bear, yet even now I feel my back giving way.

Let me once again be happy, joyous, free, Lord.

(Letter #2,670)