My Prayer

Heavenly Father

I give you thanks for this day

I thank you

That I am learning your way

I know not

What this day has in store

But Lord, help me

To trust you even more.

I thank you for

Blessings noticed and unnoticed

For they two combined

Makes an enormous list

I have seen your merciful hand

However I’ve turned

Help me never, Lord

Such great love to spurn.

Teach me to wait

 In patience before you

Cognizant that yours

Is always the better view

Teach me too, Lord

That you are never far

But that you are in us

Wherever we are.

This day Lord,

I ask nothing for myself

For you always

Replenish my shelf

However Lord,

 For those in dire need

I ask that you

Grant them relief with speed.

To the suffering

In hurricane ravaged lands

To them Heavenly Father

Extend your merciful hand

And to all of us at home

In this troubled land

Teach us once more

To follow your righteous plan.

  

For we are blessed

Lord, we know that we are

Though there are some things

Those blessings mar

Like the guns and violence

And the several road deaths

They all combine

To disrupt our night’s rest.

No doubt Lord

All of this happens elsewhere

So for such places

We also pray

That your name would again

Be truly revered

In our homes and communities

And everywhere.

Let this simple prayer

Be the desire of each heart

That perhaps today

Would be that fresh start

Where we would return

To trusting in you

And all ungodly practices

We would eschew.

Just like I began, Lord

I end this prayer with thanks

For all my necessities

That you daily grant

But most of all, Lord,

That I am your child

Help me to walk

Ever close by your side.

Amen and Amen!

Stewart Russell © October 2017