Whatever This Day May Bring

Early in the morning I cry to you.

Help me to pray and to concentrate my thoughts on you:

I cannot do this alone.

In me there is darkness, but with you there is light;

I am lonely, but you do not leave me;

I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;

I am restless, but with you there is peace.

In me there is bitterness, but with you patience;

I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me …

Restore me to liberty, and enable me so to live now

That I may answer before you and before humanity.

Lord, whatever this day may bring,

Your name be praised.

– a prayer by Dietrich Bonhoeffer