a daily prayer of surrender

using written prayers can be a great aid in the devotional life. they can help to remind us of things we really do want to say in our prayers, but can't remember at 6 am! It also helps to keep us from repeating endless clichés. a written prayer, carefully and meaningfully read, can be a powerful tool. Your prayer life should be broader than this, but written prayers can be part of it.

There are many written prayers available for you to use. Or you can create your own. the following is a prayer that i created and modified over time to try and express the sorts of things that i want to say to God every day. maybe you will find it useful as well.

A DAILY PRAYER OF SURRENDER

Heavenly Father,

I come to you today, just as I am. I give you all my strengths and weaknesses, vices and virtues, hopes and fears, successes and failures, faith and doubt.

I cast all my fear and anxiety and insecurity upon you, trusting that you will do your part, trusting that you will show me what my part is (if any), and trusting that all things will work together for good, because I love you and because I am called according to your purpose.

I receive your mercy, grace, and love into my life. Please help me to extend it to myself, and others.

Please give me the wisdom to know your will for me, the willingness to accept it, and the courage and strength to do it. I need your help in each of these ways, for I can not do any of them on my own.

Give me what I need for today -physically, spiritually, and emotionally. No more. No less.

May I live today with a heightened sense of your presence. May I catch glimpses of the eternal in all things. May I be aware of, and listen to, the promptings of your Holy Spirit.

I place my life completely and unreservedly in your hands, and trust that you will not let anything happen to me outside of your will for me.

I ask these things in the name and the power and the authority of Jesus Christ, my savior and friend.

Amen