Yes

Lord,

Help me to say Yes to your mercy.

To surrender to your infinite Love...

To coming running to You, my God, who welcomes me with Open arms.

For being the Victim, the Pascal Sacrifice, the Atonement for my sins.

Thank you, Lord, for also giving us, your children, a sense of humor.  I thank you for placing me in an English speaking part of the world.  I don't know how I would ever find letters laying on the parking lot from what the trees shed if I had to look for Chinese or Japanese characters!

Thank you, Lord, for giving us the ability to laugh.

Amen

False Weariness

Lord,

Please help my body to be calm, even as there is movement all around me.  And, if it be Your will that my body not be calm and continue jerking, them give me the patience, focus, and mental and physical stamina to function.

Let me see your Light, especially when I am tempted to see only the darkness around me.

Help me to have steady hands when the time is right for steady hands.

Lord,

Help me to stay awake today and to do your work.  Help me to see You all around me so that I am not tempted to focus on myself when I should be focused on doing your work for others.

Help me to look for You even when I don't immediately see You.

Help me to be your humble servant, Lord, for I am always so very tempted to be my own servant.  Sometimes I feel battered when I serve You.  Help me to see that this is nothing more than a temptation to turn from you and not true weariness.  It is an illusion that I must see for what it is.

Thank you for this day, my Lord and my God, lover of my soul.

Amen

Anxiety

Lord,

Thank you for helping to ease some of my anxiety by having my EEG show no seizures.

Help me now to focus on You, on my work, and on the people around me.  I will still work to find out the causes of these jerking spells, but I know that everything will be ok.

Everything will be ok because You are with me and looking after me.  

Keep your fire burning brightly within me.  I will remember You are always with me. 

I will take your presence withinme and around me to help calm my anxiety. 

Amen

Colors

Lord,

Let me see your colors.  You named me with a name that would forever cause me to look for your colors.  I came into this world named Jennifer Reding.  Lord, thank you for showing me your colors today.

Thank you for warming me up to see your colors.

Again, thank you for warming me up to see your colors.

Thank you for making me nearly giddy for your colors, for I knew You would bring them to me if I was patient enough to wait today.

Yes, Lord!  How magnificent you paint the sky!  How much more beauty is there for the eye to see?  How much more beautiful must You be!

Thank you, Lord, for your colors.  Thank you, Lord, for your life-breath.  Thank you, Lord, for your insistence that we all be made differently from one another.  No two living creatures are quite the same.  Even the trees have their own shape, personality, and touch.

Amen.