Morning

Please take the steering wheel.
Help me to make healthy choices today,
Avoid obsessive behavior,
Surrender my emotional pain to You,
Actively choose my actions,
Leave outcomes to you,
Take actions of powerlessness,
Lower my walls of words,
Perform actions of love,
Seek good purpose and emotional balance,
And stay in reality.

I remember how painful acting out was,
and how lust brings nothing but misery.
God, please protect me from self-destruction.
May I find in You the comfort, solace, & assurance I seek.

I also remember the pain that follows rage.
God, please help me to surrender my fears rather than rage on them.
When I feel anger spark inside of me, may I turn to You for assurance that
the unfounded fear causing my anger is not greater than Your ability.
May i remember that I am not You. It's not my job to manage others.
You are Sufficient to Care for me and Able to help others.

God, help me to WORK as if everything depends on me, and PRAY as if everything depends on You.

God, I offer myself to Thee to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace—that where there is hatred, I may bring love—that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness—that where there is discord, I may bring harmony—that where there is error, I may bring truth—that where there is doubt, I may bring faith—that where there is despair, I may bring hope —that where there are shadows, I may bring light—that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted—to understand, than to be understood—to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.