Joy

Dear God,

Is affirming joy the way to having it?  Rhonda Byrne says so; she wrote books on the law of attraction, and she traced this law back through generations of adherents, beginning with the book, The Secret. The law of attraction will ensure that if I move toward joy, joy itself will return to me.

What do I have to lose by understanding this way?  Surely nothing.  Joy is in Your will, of this I am sure.  You would have me joyous on this glorious day which You have made.  You mean for me to be happy, and when I am living in Your shadow, I am just that–happy in Your blessings.

When I rest in Your arms, I am sure that I am loved and safe.  This assurance gives me the security to invite joy instead of worry.

I assent to Your will in this matter of joy.  I appreciate that I know Your will and my true will are identical.

Amen.

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Being Grateful for Everyday Blessings

Dear God,

I often feel that I don’t recognize actually what has been a blessing in my life.  I don’t think to thank You for what I take for granted, what is so much a part of me that I don’t even realize how awry my life might go without it.

I thank You for the obvious things.  Throughout the day today, help me to become aware of the less obvious, and to say a little prayer of gratefulness for those things.  Gratitude enlarges my heart, and this is something I need very much.

Thank You for the obvious things, though those things are often not so obvious to me because they are constantly with me.

Amen.

Trust

Dear God,

I want to enlarge my experience of trust. A Course in Miracles indicates that trust is the most important quality, because all desirable qualities derive from it.  If I give trust, I will receive it back in a life beyond my dreams.

May the ones whose lives I touch also depend on trust, a trust that won’t let anybody down.

Your blessings far outnumber the things that I would like to change, things that don’t seem to be Your blessings.  Be with me today, as every day, making me conscious of Your Presence.

If I know that the first moments of a day may find me in a low mood, I also know that when I am a little more awake, those moments turn good.  I go to my laptop computer and type a prayer to You.  And You hear.  Help me to realize that talking to You at length in the early morning is the best thing I have going for me.  It is the way that I am being healed of thoughts that borrow trouble.

Thank You for giving me clues during the day of the best way that my life can unfold.  Help me to implement these hints of the best way to proceed.

Amen.

God’s Peace Enfolds Me

Dear God,

Please offer me Your love.  Your love will give me solace.  So often in the mornings this is my prayer.  Then the day gets going and things improve.

Your solace is Your gift to me in the early morning.  A wonderful gift.  A blessed gift.  When the day first begins, my defenses aren’t yet in place, and this is when You can touch me most deeply.  Let me open to You, not just now, but all through the day.  Your solace can be mine all the time.

Thank You, as always, as always we join together.

Amen.

Guidance from God

Dear God,

Your blessings far outnumber the things that I would like to change, things that don’t seem to be Your blessings.  Be with me today, as every day, making me conscious of Your Presence.

If I know that the first moments of a day may be hard, I also know that when I am a little more awake, those moments turn good.  I go to my laptop computer and type a prayer to You.  And You hear.  Help me to realize that talking to You at length in the early morning is the best thing I have going for me.  It is the way that I am being healed.

Thank You for giving me clues during the day of the best way that my life can unfold.  Help me to implement these hints of the best way to proceed.

Give me trust.

I especially ask that the working out of my prayers be smooth and easy.  I have turned the results over to You.

Thank You.

Amen.

God Helps

Dear God,

I was surprised this morning how fast You answered a prayer.  

This swiftness helps me to realize that You want to help me to make my life work.  Your help is a free offer, no strings attached.  Or so I have thought since a mystical moment at night in Dallas half a lifetime ago.  A free offer.

I am grateful for an assurance that You step in and change things that are going awry.  When I open my heart to You, and when I take steps in Your direction, I find that You have a very open Heart, and You have taken many more steps in my direction.

Thank You for once again reassuring me about Your willingness, always, to answer prayer.

Amen.

God’s Felt Presence

Dear God,

When I let my mind drift somewhat sleepily, I certainly have no fears that intrude on our relationship.  I sense You deeply, as though You are giving me deep healing.  This is Your “felt Presence,” isn’t it?  My balm.  My blessing.

Thank You.

Help me to sense Your Presence in the midst of my busy day as well, not just when I am sleepy.  I want You always to invade my territory, for when I allow it, I am the most myself, the most my Self.  You come up from my interior, and You soothe me.  The joy in that is palpable.

Thank You again.  My gratitude blesses me, and I sense that You, too, think that I am on the right track, finally.

Amen.

Petitioning God

Dear God,

I often ask You for a good day, that I would be blessed with a good day on this day.  I sometimes think that You must tire of that prayer.  But You don’t mind me sounding like a broken record.  You wish that I would receive all the good that You are offering.

I know that it is within my power, with You living through me, to wake up, right off the bat, with a good day from when I first open my eyes.  I know that it is within my power.  But sometimes I am weak and vulnerable, and I ask You, once again, to help me come into my own.

Take my mind and heart from the beginning of the first rays of sunlight in any given day.  I offer mind and heart to You, with the assurance that You will return them to me, after a good night’s sleep, better than they were yesterday.

I appreciate that You hear my prayer.

Amen.

Peaceful Times

Dear God,

Thank you for the sense of calm that I feel now, as the day wears on.  The afternoon and evening beckon, an oasis of peace before the busy morrow comes.

If I feel dragged out now, help me to know that serenity sometimes feels like “sleepy time.”  Sleep will come soon enough, but in the meantime, I am totally relaxed in Your arms. 

In this time of peace, help me to realize that saying a prayer for others is a good way to act, especially at a time when my own needs are way in the background.  May those in my circle feel blessed by the umbrella of prayer that I offer now, to them.

Thank You for hearing my prayer.

Amen.

A Closer Walk with God

Dear God,

I want to be safe, maybe too much.  Does it hinder You in acting with me to know that my safety needs seem so large?

I used not to know that this was a safe universe, a friendly universe.  When I was in my early teen years, I used to lie awake at night and wonder about just that.  Why didn’t I love You more?  I was afraid of You.

Now that is all in the past.  Long ago I realized that I live in a friendly universe, that You are out there and also within me, just looking to guide–when I will let You.

I will let You today.  Keep me wrapped up in Your cocoon of love, knowing that whatever might happen, I truly am safe.  Because You deem it so.

Thank You for cocooning me.

Amen.