That I may be holy, good and full of peace,
I pray my heart and mind might be one.
That the unending onslaught and storm may cease
And compulsions to success might be gone.
I offer the landscape of my inner soul
To Him who comes to me and yet is my goal.
O God, make speed to save me from fear.
Make haste, O Lord, to help my troubled heart
Which with the world’s distortions and sin adheres.
Teach me afresh your ways of peace and art
My pattern’d design and my evening prayer.
May mercy fall and lift me in your care.
Written on 26th January 2020.