I wrote one (prayer) that will do in a pinch:
Hi God.
I am just a mess.
It is all hopeless.
What else is new?
I would be sick of me,
if I were You, but
Miraculously You are not.
I know I have no
control over other people’s
Lives, and I hate this. Yet, I believe that if I
Accept this and surrender, You will meet me
Wherever I am.
Wow. Can this be true? If so, how is this
Afternoon – say, two-ish?
Thank you in advance
for You company and
Blessings.
You have never once let me down.
Amen.
Help
We can be freed from a damaging insistence on forward
thrust, from a commitment to running wildly down a convenient path that might
actually be taking us deeper into that dark forest. Praying “Help” means that we ask that
Something give us the courage to stop in our tracks, right where we are, and
turn our fixation away from the Gordian knot of our problems. We stop the toxic peering and instead turn
our eyes to something else: to our feet on the sidewalk, to the middle distance,
to the hills, whence our help comes – someplace else, anything else. Maybe this is a shift of only eight degrees,
but it can be a miracle.
It may be one of those miracles where your heart sinks,
because you think it means you have lost,
but in surrender you have won.
And if it were me, after a moment, I would say, Thanks.
From Help, Thanks,
Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by
Anne Lamott
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