My Requests

My Requests

I ask for words to teach,

You filled me with praise and a desire to share.

I ask for good health,

You gave me your strength to draw from.

I ask for friends to love me,

You gave me love to share with strangers.

I ask for children who would call me blessed,

You blessed my children and they’re a blessing to me.

I ask you to protect those I love,

You allowed those I love to walk with you.

I ask to find happiness in life,

You filled my life with unquenchable joy.

I ask to do things perfectly today,

You gave me a new day so I could try again.

I ask for knowledge so I’d understand why,

You gave me your Word to be my guide.

I ask for quiet in this busy world,

You lifted me up high above the noise.

I ask for new clothes for others to see,

You let your radiance adorn my being so they’d see you.

I ask to have no storms in life,

You hid me in the cleft of the rock as storms raged outside.

I asked for things over and over

and you repeatedly answered my every need. 

You then waited patiently as I learned

that all I need is you and you want the best for me.

                        

May ‘97