Prayer of Release

Chuckle: "As one ages, it's important to remember which pocket has the pills and which pocket has the change. Yesterday I felt a heart pain and took three nickels!"

Quote: "Prayer is the sum of our relationship with God. We are what we pray. The degree of our faith is the degree of our prayer. Our ability to love is our ability to pray." --Carlo Carretto, "Letters from a Desert"

PRAYER OF RELEASE

"I know the one in whom I trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of his return" (2 Timothy 1:12 NLT).

The following prayer is By Roy Lessin, DaySpring co-founder and writer. It is so beautiful that I wanted to share it with you on this Election Day.

"Heavenly Father, I release to you the burdens I have been carrying, burdens that You never meant for me to carry. I cast all my cares upon You -- all my worries, all my fears.

Father, calm my restless spirit, quiet my anxious heart, still my troubling thoughts with the assurance that You are in control. I let go of my grip upon the things I have been hanging onto, with opened hands I come to You.

I thank You for Your promise to sustain me, preserve me, and guard all that I have entrusted to Your keeping. Protect my heart and mind with Your peace, the peace that passes all understanding. Father, may Your will be done in my life, in Your time, and in Your way."

If you have not voted early, please do so today. Have a wonderful day.

Love, Jerry & Dotse