Hi God,
I’m late again.
I’m reading about performance anxiety
and seem to have developed some anxiety
about writing things down,
about being explicit with my thoughts.
It’s not like I can hide them from you.
That’s in Ps. 139, right?
So if I can’t hide from you,
why hide from myself?
I think this might be a more general problem
than just one I have.
It seems to me that a lot of us
aren’t exactly forthcoming in our motivations.
Could this be because we don’t take time to examine them?
So my prayer today is that you help us
actually take time—each day even—
to examine our motivations,
to examine our relationship to you
to examine our relationship to each other.
In so doing, I pray we might learn
to live more honest and peaceful lives.
Also, please have mercy on my soul,
sinner though you well know I be.
Amen