Good Day Lord,

I am grateful for my overnight sleep, and to wake up with thoughts of gratitude and spiritual satisfaction that you watch over me Lord...

I strive to remain in tune with you, in spite of the oncoming challenges of the physical world...

I am not perfect Father...

I have plenty of faults...some that I cannot control as I would like to...

I know your training Lord...you suggest that I turn my thinking to you, to place myself in the cover of your wings...

And you do take care of my circumstances...

You restore all balance in my life...

Only that the balance is not permanent in this world...

Your restoration comes and goes...

It isn't a one-shot deal...

You've made it so that I always need to strive for your blessings and favor...

Let's not deny this fact: you want me to continually strive for you Lord...

You want to see my voluntary sending out of my heartfelt longing for you...to show you my loving intention to you...

I'm ok with it...I understand that all things are transient, temporary Father...

You made things in this world to be temporary...

But you are permanent...you are the only permanent One Lord...

I seek out the permanent, the infinite...

It certainly isn't this world...

So I point out to you Father...

I say "it is You Father I seek" to reach my hand out spiritually...

Who is the permanent one who can provide constant blessings...?

Who is the one who overcomes all the earthly stupidity...?

Who is the one who can intervene on my behalf...?

Who is the one that will smash down all evil...?

Who is the perfect vindicator...?

It is you Father...

So I turn to you Lord, and reach out to you with my body-mind-soul, and wait in childlike expectation for your great interventions...

Thanks Lord...

(from GM Evagrius)