Pause for Prayer: SATURDAY 10/10

I wrote this prayer over two decades ago when I was doing some part time ministry in a prison. Over the years I've posted it in several different versions. (What's brand new in ths post is a great song I found!)  I'm posting this prayer again morning because in a few days I'll be seeing a friend who just came home after nearly six years in prison.  While this prayer is all folks aching for freedom in their hearts, please keep in your prayers to day our brothers and sisters who are incarcerated.

A Prayer For Freedom In My Heart

Give me freedom in my heart, Lord,
when I'm feeling all locked up...

Give me freedom in my heart
when I'm walled in by my loneliness...

Give me freedom in my heart
when I'm imprisoned by my past...

Give me freedom in my heart
when anxious feelings jail my hope...

Give me freedom in my heart
when bars of fear lock down my soul...

Give me freedom in my heart
when I feel sentenced to a day, to a night
that has no end... 

Give me freedom in my heart

when I'm the one who locked my cell

and  holds the key in my own pocket...

Give me freedom in my heart
to hear your word of pardon,
of mercy and forgiveness...

Give me freedom in my heart, Lord,
to become, at last, 

the person you created me to be...

Receive my thanks and praise
for all the freedom that is mine, Lord,
the freedom that I long for

and find in you alone...

Amen.

 

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Freedom Hymn by Austin French 

 

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