Papa,

Thank you for reaching down and lifting me up.  Thank you for removing that rock that was such a heavy burden for me to carry. All of my doubts and battles seemed so large because I tried to deal with life on my own.  The more I tried to do the more difficult it became.  I remembered what it was like to follow after you and I remember the footsteps poem.  I did not need you walking beside me I needed you to pick me up.  I realized that the 2 sets of footprints became one because of that and not because you were gone.  I lift up all the new things in my life and pursuits and pray you would open and close the doors that are in your will.  You know my heart and my desires, but also my anxious and unreasonable thoughts!!  I give it all to you and pray to continue to do right by letting you shine through me.  Thank you for embracing me in all my times of need even when I didn’t realize it or want it.  I pray against feeling numb like I have for my whole life and pray that I would take the steps into trusting those that you put in my life, knowing that it is you who gives me the discernment to trust them.  I pray that it would be in that trust of you I would be willing to be hurt by those you have put around me.  Papa, it feels good praying to you and knowing you are with me and I know you never left I just was being human.  I need you and you are my strength and my peace and I am thankful for all you do.  Everything in my life I surrender to you and I pray you take all of my anxious and unhealthy thoughts and bind them and send them wherever it is you send them.  I also pray that you would protect those in my crown of life and cover us all with the Blood of Christ.  It is in Jesus’ Holy and so Precious Name I pray.   AMEN!

One Love, One King, All Christ!