A Prayer for When Believing Isn't Easy

O my Savior, help me.


I am slow to learn, prone to forget, and weak to climb;

I am in the foothills when I should be on the heights;

I am pained by my graceless heart,

my prayerless days,

my poverty of love,

my sloth in the heavenly race,

my sullied conscience,

my wasted hours,

my unspent opportunities.


I am blind while the light shines around me:

take the scales from my eyes,

grind to dust my heart of unbelief.

Make it my highest joy to study you,

meditate on you,

gaze on you,

sit like Mary at your feet,

lean like John on your breast,

appeal like Peter to your love,

count like Paul all things but dung.


I believe, help my unbelief. Amen