Dear God...

...I need your peace. I'm too easily upset by the way others treat me. Help me to be more dependent on you than on any person. And when my world seems to fall apart, help me to look to YOU for comfort and help than to other things that cannot satisfy. Give me hope, God. Let me not be drawn into the black hole that yawns before me. Pull me away from the edge of the abyss and give me hope, courage, strength and peace.

Thank you for who You are, Father. Thank you for Your love, Your presence, Your guiding hand, Your deliverance. Thank you for all you've done for me till now--the ways you've rescued me, delivered me, healed me, enabled me to help others. Thank you for the promises you have given me and the hope you have planted in my heart even though I see no other reason to hope. Thank you for the friends and the communities of your people in which you have planted me. You are able to do far above what we hope or ask for. You are holy, Lord. You are in control even when it seems like everything is spinning out of control. You are the Light when everything seems black. Yours are the arms that draw me close and hold on to me when I'm willing to pause long enough to let you. You are my Rock. Hide me in Your cleft and let the winds blow past.