Here me, o God, I pray for the realization of my condition in your eyes. Help me to see and know myself as you see and know me. Give me clear insight into my relationship with you. Let me know myself as you know me.
Give me assurance that I belong to you. Remove from the those nagging doubts and needless fears that I may not be good enough to be numbered with the company of heaven.
But, if I’m living in separation from you, if I am more a creature of evil than a child of yours, o great Physician, use your convicting scalpel on me. Perform within me the surgery necessary to heal me of this soul sickness.
Christ, I abandon myself to you. Do with me every necessary thing to assure my entrance into eternal life and the heaven you have already prepared for me.
Norman Shawchuck