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)

Dear God, all these thoughts of self, tumbling around in my mind. Every few moments, a new concern comes to me, a new idea arises – all rooted in self. Will I be okay, will I get what I want, will I advance, will I get my comeuppance. Self.

Lord, let this self-seeking slip away.

Let my thoughts be directed by you, towards you. Let me willingly seek and do what you command.

(Letter #1066)

Dear God, grant me knowledge of your will for me, O Lord. Let me please have right thoughts. Guide my thinking towards what you would have me do. I am so distracted by temporal, personal, quotidian matters. I cannot discern the important from the trivial. Grant me the wherewithal to hear your voice, and act on your direction.

Thy will be done.

(Letter #1065)

Dear God, let me be open to correction. Let me see where I am wrong, let me accept when this is so. Let my worry over others’ views of me slip away.

Teach me. Let me be teachable.

(Letter #1064)

Dear God, there is enough. Sufficient resources, sufficient energy, sufficient time, sufficient love. Let me please know this to my bones. I so often forget.

Lord, let me let me know and feel how you support me, even as now, when I am scared of all that is arrayed before me. Grant me awareness of all the ways you are already protecting and guiding me.

My father, let me feel safe in your arms today.

There is enough. Let me be thankful.

(Letter #1063)