Showing posts with label awake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awake. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Fatigue

Lord,

Please help me to look to You when it seems that darkness surrounds me and is waiting to crush me.


Let me see that you are there, waiting for me to reach out to You so that You can pull me through the darkness into light and comfort. 


Lord,

Help me to open my eyes today.  I need to open them not only to see You, but simply to open them.  As my body is feeling fatigue even before I rise for the day, help me to rub the sleep from them and wake. 


Amen

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Focus

Dear Lord,

Since I'll have my head down and working for longer than normal today, please give me colors.


For when I see colors, I see You.  Who else can make such colors?


Lord, let me be awed by your creation.  When I am awed, I forget about my muscle spasms.  :-)


When I am awed, I must think about how the work I do is valuable because just as You made colors, You made me.



Just as You made colors, You made those around me.  All those around me.  Not just the people I like.


You made everyone beautiful, even when I don't see the beauty.  I must still treat everyone as beautiful.


I must always remember that You died on the cross for the sake of everyone's salvation, so I mustn't ever judge myself more worthy than another.  We all make choices and then make more choices and then make more choices.


Lord,

Help me to stay focused today.  Focused on my work.  Focused on my driving.  Focused on staying awake.  Most importantly, focused on seeing You in others.


Lord,

Hold my hand today.  I am in need of a Companion today, especially as these jerks/spasms continue to get worse every day.  Hold my hand and let me focus on You rather than the electricity everywhere in my body.


Amen.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Awake

Lord,

I am tired today.  Help me to become awake.  


Help me to stay awake. 


Help me to be more than awake but to function today and function well!



Help me to have the good sense to come home at a reasonable time from my day's work so that I can go to bed early.


Ok, I'm still waking up.  I'll repeat myself, not because You didn't hear but because I have a thick skull.  Help me, Lord, to have the good sense to go to bed early tonight so that I am not tired tomorrow!


Now that I have the correct celestial body in my brain...

Amen!