Father, You deserve all my praise.  Creation was a gift that I mishandled for my short sighted objectives.  Innocence was a blessing that I wagered for a headache, a tarnished reputation and attention.  Until I met You my joy was liquid finding any crack in the floor through which to disappear.  My faith was thin, my anger livid and my patience absent.  My love was selfish aimed at lobbying those in possession of my most recent or unfulfilled expectation.  My dreams were strangled with thoughts of regret, lost achievement and gray landscapes.  I lived the black and white with no concept of the stellar prism.  That all transformed with the advent of Your Spirit within my heart, mind and head.  The past belongs to someone else although I stand ready to answer for the lives I disrupted or destroyed through my actions.  You are coming and I pray that I continue to focus only upon that thought.  Keep me from sin, wash me clean so that I am prepared for our meeting day.  Please don’t let me miss one person to whom I have the chance to share Your Word of Good News.  Make this life Yours.  Thank You Lord, in Jesus’ name