IpraytoGodmysoultokeep

 Thank You. Love You. Hope You are well. If there is anything I can do for You, please ask. Let me know. Let me see. Help me be. Honor Thee. True to me. Walk with me. Talk with me. Help me see. Help me be here now. Help me hear. Help me listen. Know Thy Will. Be still. Be real. Bless me with calm. Help me know. Help me go. Be the light. Choose the right. Grateful I am. Blessed I am. Humbled by Thy Grace. Help me know Nothing. Help me create. Participate. Anticipate. Use my imagination. Be intentional. Be complete. Be the answer. Ask the right questions. Please help me love my family as You Love us. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

 So grateful so humbled. Is what I just read and understood an answer to last night’s prayer? Truly You astound and confound me. Genesis. Seriously? You speak to me through Genesis? Thou aren’t alone? Amazing. What else about Thee am I to learn? This isn’t going to be easy is it? Didn’t think so. Tonight with the banana bread, that was You too wasn’t it? Dick is a special guy. Please comfort him and bless him and bring Barbara home with Thee. Bless their family. Please bless Pat tomorrow and his surgeon. Comfort Mary. Help me lead my family. Bless me with wisdom, courage and understanding. Help me be there for my wife and daughters. Bless me with restful sleep. Help me be productive and useful at work tomorrow. Help me be calm. Be with me. Allow me to recognize Thy presence. Help me be present. Help me be kind. Sharpen my mind. Soften my heart. Use me to share Thy Love. I believe in the Glory of God. I pray in the name Emmanuel. Amen. 

 Life is truly meaningless without You. Please God be my Hope. Help me overcome the world of death around  me. In a world that extinguishes life in the womb is one in which I can no longer tolerate. Is the value of life measured worthy only by it being needed or valued by other lives? What am I to Thee? Insignificant. One in billions. Statistically insignificant by any measure in the context of human history or in the presence of humanity with all its misery, addiction and pain. Is it because my parents wanted me my life has meaning? Or because my family needs me I have value? I have faith. I believe Thou art the reason. Thy presence is life. Thy absence death. Be with me. Please be with my family. Show Thy Love. Be my Hope. Be here. Use me to share Thy Love. Help me. Amen.

 The Beginning and the End my love I send Thee. Depend on Thee. Want to know Thee. Be with Thee. See Thee. Know Thy Will. Be still. Rhyme this time. Thou know my mind. Grind. Find. Mind my manner. Rap from the start. Thou know my heart. Prayer as art. 

 On this night I feel so weary. On this dark night weak and weary I pray to Thee and wonder why. In spite of all I do I will not die. Often troubled I wonder why. On this night I dare to try. To speak to You in spite of myself. The gift You give amazing wealth. Valued as much as my good health. Faith, grit and wisdom. Lead me to Thy Kingdom. A humble servant I ask Thy help. Guide my steps back close to Thee. Soften my heart and sharpen me. Open my eyes so I can see. I believe in Thee. Trust in Thee. Love Thee. Want to be with Thee. Bless my sleep with dreams tonight. Amen 

I pray for my America I pray out loud I pray for my country I am American proud I pray for the land of liberty  I pray for the home of the brave I pray for sweet sweet freedom  I pray for Love

Love is Thee. Thou art Love. This I know in my heart, Soul and mind. Equally desirable and unknowable, essential and unseen, all powerful and useless, omnipresent and nowhere to be seen. What are You? What am I? Is my Soul of Thee? Is my Spirit Divine? I ask these questions expecting no answers for I known my place in this Universe. I know how little I am. I know how big Thou art. Humbled by this life. Grateful for my wife. Praying for some peace of mind. Hoping hope is what I find. Please calm my mind and help me sleep.  I pray Thee Lord my Soul to keep. I wish for Us a fair Thee well. I pray in the name Emmanuel. Amen.

Who am I that Thou would answer me. Who am I that my prayers would be heard. Who am I but a spec of dust a  blink in time. Nearly nothing. Meaningless in the big picture. Everything to those few specs and blinks in my life who I would gladly give my life for theirs.  Nearly a month since I’ve written a prayer here and what is lost other than hope. What is lost? What is my purpose? Do I matter to You? Ancient texts, prophets I have not met, other specs and blinks say it is so, but I ask of Thee do I matter to You? How can I? Why should I? I know that I am not special. Foolish to think I can make any sort of real difference in the world when I can’t seem to take care of myself and family. God please protect them from my incompetence. God please relieve me of my burden. Release me from myself. I give it all to You. My need to know. My desire to be happy. My yearning to know Thee. My desire to make things right. To be just. To be true. To have respect. I know none of this in myself and hav