Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 2/18

Saint Paul was right, Lord,
when he asked:
    Why do I so easily do
        the things that I don't want to do
    and yet so often fail to do
        the very things I want?

I'm thinking of the good things, Lord,
waiting in my heart and mind:
    prayer I mean to offer,
    help I want to give,
    faults I should confess,
    habits I can change... 

It's my "To Do" list, Lord:

    work I've left undone,

    loose ends left untied,

    promises not kept,

    peace that's mine to make...

 

And yet, instead of these, Lord,

I do the things that bring me only grief

    - not the happiness I thought I'd find
        by going my own way...

I pray then for the grace, Lord:
    to come to you in prayer,
    to lend a helping hand,
    to name my faults and failings
    and to change what I must change... 

 

Help me leave behind
    whatever drains my spirit
and help me, Lord, to do those things
    that fill me with your peace...

Amen.

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