Dear God, I wish to know your will, to have an understanding of the path you would have me follow. Why? This, in itself, is a kind of lack of faith. I ought to abandon myself to you regardless of the direction it takes me. If this is so, then in truth I have no need to know the goal.

Lord, keep me blind, that I may rely on you more and more. Let my every halting footstep be one taken gingerly, gripping tightly to your hand, in full trust. I so wish to know the map. Thwart this, O Lord. Let my ignorance be your blessing.

(Letter #1082)

Dear God, let me live rightly today. Let me submit to your will. Burn away my own plans, undermine my will. Thwart my desires. Rule me — all that I may live the life you have decreed.

I wish for happiness and good feeling. Let me live a life today of right action, without care for my own thoughts and feelings. This search for happiness is both futile and disloyal. Let me willingly act contrary to my inclinations, submitting to your dictates. Through denial of self, Lord, let me grow into the person you would have me be.

Let me not believe this fiction of self. I am yours. Let me act as such today.

(Letter #1081)

Dear God, I cannot flee you. Wherever I may travel, however far from your path I may send my mind and intentions, you persist in walking right there with me. You protect me when I act in lunacy. You intercede in calamity. You wait patiently as I slowly come back to myself and remember who and what I am – your beloved child.

Lord, let me cease my flight. Let me sit with you as you sit with me. Let me rest in your sunshine, watching the river pass by.

Thy will be done.

(Letter #1080)

Dear God, how can my devotion to your path grow? How can I more intently rely upon you? How can I be better today than I was yesterday? Show me the way, O Lord. Let me not coast.

Whatever work I am willing to do – call me to do double. Let me marvel, at the day’s end, at how are you have driven me to surpass self. Thy will be done, in all things and in all ways.

(Letter #1079)

Dear God, let me not think of myself today. Let me act contrary to my instincts. Where I would protect my position, let me give way. Where I would speak, let me remain silent. Where I would seek credit, let me shine the spotlight on others.

Lord, let me have trust in your guidance. I am so fearful that I must manage the world. Let me accept that such an effort is worse than futile, that it only has the opposite of its intended effect. Let me please have the willingness to hand over all things to your guidance and direction.

Let me seek and do your will today. Grant me knowledge of your will for me, and the willingness and power to carry it out.

(Letter #1078)

Dear God, all that I have left undone weighs upon me. It leaves me with fear that my derelictions will be discovered, that the consequences of inaction will come to me.

Lord, grant me sight. Let me see through this mist and fantasy until the world is true and clear.

My day, as it approaches, appears as a cloud of panic. Shine on me. Let the cloud burn away and dissipate.

Grant me willingness to do your will today.

(Letter #1077)

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)