A Prayer

The following prayer is from Ken Gire's book Windows of the Soul.

A Prayer for Understanding

Help me, God,

To realize it is in being crippled that I learn to cling, and in limping that I learn to lean,

that victory comes not in how courageously I struggle

but in how completely I surrender,

and that this is how I am to grow,

by being defeated,

decisively

by constantly greater things.

Help me to understand that Your power is perfected in weakness,

so that when I am rendered weak,

You are given the opportunity to be shown strong.

Help me to understand, too,

that "more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of,

for so the whole round earth is every way

bound in gold chains about the feet of God..."