Ah, my Lord, you are my light for the path I walk.  You are my path through the world I travel.  Your holiness soars through the cosmos and settles at last in my heart.  I can never feel alone when you are near. I can never feel rejected when you carry me. I can never feel deserted when you hold my heart in your arms and sing to me with your spirit.

Forgive me, Lord, when I am alone in my house and am afraid of what might be lurking in the darkness outside. Remind me that nothing will happen to me without your permission and for some greater good.

Thank you, God, for getting me through yesterday when I felt so down. I did not stay down. I saw a few friends and you lifted me up through them.  Thank you for your life on earth and your willingness to live it to the fullest ~ all the way to dying for being good. You seemed so defeated. How wrong everyone was. What you went through made your victory so much more dynamic. Thank you for materializing for me. Forever thank you. From my heart thank you.

I adore you, God. You are unfailing. You never give up on me and never desert me when I fail you.  You are strong, for love is strong. You are the great conqueror because love overcomes all things. You are all wise because you are truth. You are all life because you created all things ~ and me.  When I feel like a little ant lost in a great wide desert, you lean low and take me to green meadows where my heart can sing.

Lord, I don’t know how to have everyone’s favor as Jesus did when he was a child. Gradually, he revealed himself until those same people became his enemies. I am a coward around many people instead of standing up for truth and you. Forgive me and live in me more largely.

Thank you, God, for the rain today. It was so gentle and brought with it the promise of more flowers and sweet fragrances to tantalize my senses. What a beautiful world you have made. Even on a battlefield, a daffodil, a crocus, and tulip can spring up and remind the world you are still here. You love me so. You hold me in your great arms as long as I need and whenever I need. You are so good to me.

I adore you, glorious God. You are my Maker and Lover. You lift me up and honor me. Oh, my. You are the one who deserves all honor, all respect, all heavenly nobility. Everything you do is right. How can you keep us all sorted out? It is amazing. You are magnificent and wise beyond all my understanding. I stretch my mind to comprehend you. I sing softly a love song to you. It mingles with my tears and then I smile.

Lord, someone began a conversation yesterday about how you created everything. You never told anyone how; you just said you did. Your creation was your miracle. We cannot explain miracles. But I jumped in with some opinions I’d heard. How silly of me to keep a conversation going that cannot come to any conclusion. Forgive me.

Thank you, God, for your Bible so I do not have to guess what you are like and what your Plans are for mankind and the world. We are here for a purpose. I thank you for the confidence you have placed in me to do my part in proving Satan wrong and dangerous. Thank you for allowing me to fight with you and help fulfill your glorious purposes for the world.

I magnify your name, Jehovah, God of the universe. The only God. The God who is  just and yet merciful.  The God who loves the unloving. The God who is sinless but has patience with sinners.  Such love fills me with lofty gladness. You overlook what I do wrong and make it all good and right. You behold my puny efforts to make a difference in the world and make them multiply and expand and become beautiful. Such attention and love I cannot comprehend. So I worship you.

Help me talk to everyone I associate with and not spend so much time with those I get along with. I think the old saying, “To know them is to love them” is true. Forgive me when I neglect the neglected.

Ah, my Lord Jesus, thank you for leaving heaven for me and facing Satan in a human body on earth. He tried everything he could think of to make you sin just one time. That one time would have been all he needed to bring you down to his Sheol. But you were too strong for him, even in your human body’s weakest moments! You hovered over Satan and dared him. You brought Satan to his knees. You rose up powerful and magnificent and glorious. I was too weak to face down Satan. No one could. No one but you. So, you did. You did it for me. You took my place.  How can I thank you enough? I will spend eternity finding new ways to show my deep gratitude.

You are so great, but you lean low and take notice of the lowly in life and lift us high. You notice the oppressed and make them feel like princes. You notice orphans whose parents have left them in spirit or death and make them part of your glorious family. You notice the blind and other handicapped and make them feel like kings. Some day you will give everyone that kind of glorious body Jesus had. Then I will be able to praise you in ways I never imagined. You, who made me, are more amazing than words can say.

Lord, I was so foolish and thoughtless yesterday.  I bought a new pair of shoes I did not need when I know a family that needed help with their electric bill.  I think I will take the shoes back and send them the money in the mail anonymously.

Thank you for days when I feel your peace despite goings on around me.  When I look at the birds hopping around, looking for things out of which to make their nests, I smile. When I listen to the dove you sent me a few weeks ago, my heart stops racing and slows to an easy pace. When I notice the buds on them, they remind me how quietly they peek out from their branches and slip into my spring day with aromatic sweetness.  Thank you, God, for all that you make for my pleasure.

My Lord, you dissolve the boundaries of my resistance and make your home in my heart.  I laud you because with you my pulse beats with joy.  Through the shadows, you illuminate my life and lead me step by step up the mountain. Then I fly, soaring through the universe. There is nowhere that I can go that you are not there.  And so I worship you.

Help me, Lord, keep loving people and not notice their offensive words. If I could train myself to not notice, life would be better for both them and me.

I thank you, God, for doing so much for so long to save me and make it possible for me live forever with you. You love me beyond measure despite my sins. You forgive me though I keep repeating the same sins over and over.  You show me how to forgive others by your infinite example. Mercy in its supremacy can only come from you. Ah, my Lord, you are the epitome of love.  You surround me with your patience and peace. Your perfect peace.

I adore you, my Lord. You are life and light and love. You are the path, the road, the Way. You give direction to my life that would otherwise have no meaning. You guide me when I do not know what to do. I long to live with you where you are. How much longer must I wait? Even as I wait, I will proclaim you to people, nations, the world. You are the one and only God. You are the only light, life giver, and soul of the universe. And of my heart.

Lord, I continue to be selfish. I continue to spend time with friends instead of looking outward to others who are so lonely, but smile and pretend they are not.

Thank you, God, for loving me and giving life, for you are love and you are life.  You watch over me every day as a mother or father does for their little helpless child. Why do you love me so? I reject you with my sins, yet you love me still.  Thank you for materializing as Jesus so we could watch your example of living, and so we could see, hear and touch God. What an example. While on earth, you taught extreme love while your enemies taught extreme intolerance. You never backed down. For me, you never backed down. I worship you.

I praise you, Lord God, from the mountain peaks, the lowest valleys, and the depths of the earth.  I praise you in my heart and spirit, my mind and body. You made the universe for my pleasure. You are so good. You guide me and watch me and keep turning me around whenever I go the wrong way. You are everywhere at all times. I cannot escape you. I do not want to escape you. You keep my heart alive.

Ah, thank you, for loving me, and thank you, my Lord, for saving my soul. Such love, even when I insult you with my sins.  You are so good to me and I do not deserve it. You surround me with love like a wall, protecting me from Satan as long as I do not go beyond the wall.  Satan wants to punish me with his accusations. You want to save me with your mercy. With you, my garments are white and I am crowned with your glory ~ not mine but yours.

Forgive me for neglecting people I meet in a group. I talk only to my friends when I should be talking to those standing to the side who no one is talking to. I have been in their shoes sometimes. Make me remember those times and look for the neglected.

The highest praise belongs to you alone, Jehovah of the universe, both that which is seen and unseen.  I praise you, God of the NAME, God the I AM. You are not just existence. You know me by my name. You run after me when I run away from you and call my name. You love me so. If you did not love, you could not exist. If you were not life, you could not exist. Oh, how I long to be with you as your bride forever.

I am just a weak sinner. I find it hard to forgive sometimes and have to remind myself that you forgive me only as I do others.  Satan wants me to become an accuser like him. Satan, get away from me!

I whisper thank you in my heart for your Word ~ your heart poured out. My puny thanks swells, rushes to you, and bursts forth in your throne room.  Thank you, Jesus, for being my perfect sacrifice. You had to materialize so you could be my substitute. You went through what you did not have to do, even while I was offending you with my sins. Thank you for giving life, and re-giving life over and over. You cannot stop because you are God. Thank you for being stronger than Satan and keeping him at enough distance that I can recognize all the good that you are.

You have made it possible for me to transcend worlds ~ from mine to yours ~ in prayer. You hear me! You actually hear me! How do you do that? Your Spirit touches my spirit. Your mind touches my mind. Your heart touches my heart.  My words arrive safely at your throne just as I uttered them.  I know you are there and hear me. I know because of the evidence you left in the Bible that you exist. Therefore, I praise you with all my spirit, my mind, my heart. Ah, I can hardly wait to enter your world, your heaven, where I will praise you all day.  Glorious day where there will never be night.

Lord, when people say bad things to or about me, I turn coward and slither away in fear. I know that perfect love casts out fear, so this proves I do not love them. Help me overcome my fears and love instead.

Thank you for allowing me to talk to you. You send me answers in your Bible or in changes of circumstances here on earth. If I pray to meet someone who lives far away, you shift things around so that person gets a different job and finds a house in the area where I live. All the shifting of lives you do to answer just one prayer. I do not know how you keep us all straight, but you do. And for that I am eternally grateful.