Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank you for this beautiful day you have made! Thank you for all of your creation! Father, as the weather warms, I am overjoyed to think about going out and observing and praising you for your creations in nature. I find peace in your creation and I pray that I also find you there and that we have many beautiful conversations.

You know my heart and the joy that simple things bring to me, but you also know the troubles I have faced and the abuses that have made me question my place and purpose on this earth when I am one of your creations. My love for myself and ability to see myself through your eyes is increasing, but you know the things I still struggle with today. Please forgive me for the failures I have daily due to those struggles and the lies whispered in my ear that I am not enough, that I am not seen, and not worthy of anything good.

Please continue to fill my heart with the things that are of you. Please help me to shine with your light so that I am not just seen, but I am seen for you in me. Please continue to guide me and light my steps as you show me my gifts and where an how to use them to please you. Please help me to be of service to others as that is what brings me joy.

Give me the confidence to know that I can do whatever you call me to do, as I can do all things through you who gives me strength.

Father, I cannot praise you enough for the work you have done in my life. I have faced terrible trials and at times have just wanted to not exist. But you are showing me that my existence is purposeful and you are showing me the things I could not see when my eyes were covered. You removed the covering in your perfect timing because you knew exactly what I needed in order to be able to see you in your fullness.

You have brought so many blessing into my life that the trials and sufferings do not compare. I know that what you have in store is so much greater than even that.

Thank you for your healing. Thank you for filling the cracks in my heart with gold – with you – and making it more beautiful than before. You have changed me, you have been refining me, and I welcome your continued work in me.

Father, I was asked if I would chose this new spiritual life over my old worldly life and my response was a resounding YES! Every time I sway to the worldly things, I become anxious and unsettled, but when I correct my way back to you, I receive peace.

I pray now, in closing, because I know the goodness of you, that my friends and family who have either not accepted you into their lives or who have walked away or strayed from you and are having trouble seeing you, feeling you, hearing you, or who have hurts, sorrows, pain, or losses that have clouded their vision or they have built up walls that are keeping you out, thinking that they are protecting themselves from more pain, that you open their eyes and ears and hearts, that you tear down their walls and they fall like the walls of Jericho, so they can SEE you, HEAR you, FEEL you, and REMEMBER you and step into the shade of your covering and receive all of your gifts.

Thank you for everything you are to us, for being the patient, merciful, and unconditionally loving Father!

I love you and never want to lose sight of you!

Amen