Prayer for Today

I pray that I live for you today.
Seeking, searching for, and doing your will.
Your Word in my heart and on my lips, morning and night.
Let me love, lead, and laugh in your name.
Humble me with your lavish gifts.
One day from you, lived for you.

And yet, what is one day to you?
You have given me all that I am and have.
All I have for you is this moment, this day.
I measure my days by the rising of the sun.
You raise the sun from its bed in the east
the same as you raise me from my bed every morning.

No, today is not enough for you, nor tomorrow, nor forever.
A life given to you is as a vapor, as dust.
My life is already yours.
My new life as a new creation is yours too.
Empty me of me and fill me with you.
Only you are worthy of yourself.

What you have given me, today, belongs to you.
May you take it and me and do as you please.
Your broken body becomes mine, your sacrifice mine.
The fruit of your Spirit becoming my way of life.
One day of me filled with you for you.
All I can ask is for more of you today.