A Prayer

Tonight I pray that I might be a light of joy to those who are around me - that I might inspire them and help guide them toward our Father.

I pray that I might seek out my Father more earnestly and that I might come to know Him more.

I pray that I might be a good friend to others and to do nothing less than love them more than I even love myself - that I might strive to love them as Jesus loves them.

I pray that people close to me would stop trying to find happiness and security in being with one other person - that they might seek their only happiness and security from our Father, and abandon these other relationships until they might find His calling and come to truly know Him more.

I pray that people close to me and I myself might come to abandon a need for physical closeness and seek only purity of heart, mind, soul, and body - and seek our only intimacy with God.

I pray that I might be a friend who others trust - who others might talk to and feel welcome to talk to in trust and confidence, truly knowing that the only reason I live is to love God and, thus, love them.

I pray that those whom I love so much might abandon all ways of this world and seek whole-heartedly after our Father and become closer to Him in all that we do.

I pray that this prayer might become more than words - that it might become reality. How joyful we might all be...

seeking Him whom I love beyond compare,
chris

<><