To my Father
who owns every moment
of my time,
all the creation around
me,
all stops and goes of my life
- to knowing my beginning
to my end of days
here on earth.
So involved in creating
my timing,
my place for Your good pleasure
and to take me
to my fullest
potential
in gentleness and kindness,
leading me
to drink of Your fountain
only.
My needs met
by Your knowledge in
more ways
than I could know
my lack and ask.
Merciful Father,
so pure with motives for me,
take me and give my daily
bread today
so that I am in strong standing
under a plan that leads
to the
gates of forgiveness
and gathers me
to be sure of this pardon.
I find hunger
and I go seeking.
I want to be found
looking for food
that I
will share for eternity,
not the turning away
to pleasures held
for only pieces
of glory here on earth.
When I am asked
to do the bidding of another
I have no rights or ownership in,
give me strength
to not take upon my soul
their grip, this enemy
that makes guilt or kindness
a
trick to capture my strength
away from my assigned days.
Help me watch my days carefully.
Help me take
my own self-centered desires
or
my fears
I am not getting
or will not be provided for,
and squeeze this lie out of my
heart.
I want my days to be filled
with
the watch of a released heart
after Your love,
consumed in walking
a straight
path assigned.
Swallowed whole in Your goodness
as my time spent on earth
accomplishes Your will.
May I carry myself
as unashamed and surrendered
to this passion
You serve as my stairway
to all of
heaven’s feasting.
Feed me from above
and I will see Your Face.
