Lord, I am in utter dependence upon you. I am unable even to draw breath without your grace. How much less am I able to do so comfortably, unless conscious of your favor upon me. This does not diminish from the nobility of what I was created to do. Rather, it hints at its imminent fulfillment. It means I am becoming more aware of the true nature of this universe, and how it works. For, even to begin with, it is in you that all things consist.
Let me rest in this dependence, God. Let me become so enthralled with your glory that I am unable even to see the distractions of this world. I have been so foolish in the past. Allow me to see, with new spiritual eyes, the goodness and compassion that you have as a father. Allow me to see that this is your nature. Allow me to see you as the father of the prodigal — the parent who leaves (running!) as I return from a distance, and who races out to meet me, and sweeps me up in his arms, and who offers me all that you have, without condition. I ask you to allow me this because it is only by your power that human beings are capable of desiring something that is so contrary to the only life they have ever known…and I am so very human.
Let peace like a river overwhelm me this day.
