Here and now, I choose to deliberately engage with the present moment by forgetting the things which are behind me, and pressing forward into the fabric and substance of everything you are doing in my life, Jesus. I choose you. Above and beyond all else, I choose you.
I lay aside everything which hinders me. All sin and distraction, I lay it down for t his one purpose only: that I may experience the quietness that is necessary to hear your voice. Your voice is everything to me now, Jesus. Help me to not be afraid. Help me to know you are love. Even the parts of me that are yet traumatized, and reacting in pain, seeing the present through that old, awful filter…help me to see and to know with everything in me that you are love. Help me to understand enough of what love is, that I might not be afraid any longer.
My words of thanks seem so small, and your wonderful gifts are so impossibly great, but thank you so much for what you are doing, Jesus. May I decrease, that you might increase. Amen.
