Prayers

Prayer of Surrender

Lord, help me to remember that together you and I can handle anything that comes my way today.
Instead of giving in to old patterns of coping with overwhelming emotions, I choose to give you the control over my life.
I ask you to be in charge.
I am not willing for my life to stay the same.
Today I take the steps to give you control that I may walk through my day in mental, physical, and emotional peace.
Until I have developed this choice to the point where it becomes natural to me, please walk with me through every moment of the day. I will make the choice-YOU WILL BE MY STRENGTH. In Jesus' name, Amen!


Prayer For The Journey

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But, I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this YOU WILL LEAD ME by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore I WILL TRUST YOU ALWAYS though I may seem to be lost in the shadow of death.
I WILL NOT FEAR, FOR YOU ARE EVER WITH ME, AND YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE ME TO FACE MY PERILS ALONE.

Thomas Merton
Thoughts In Solitude