Father, thank you for this time of silence so I can listen more carefully and keenly at your Word. Thank you for this rare opportunity for solitude, away from trivial concerns and earthly cares, that I may have the precious moments to attune my heart back to You. You have proven Yourself faithful, and because of this, though imperfectly, I have made it my aim to devote my life to Thy service. But my heart is wicked, and my flesh weak, my will flickering, That at times the very act of my worship for You are the ones that split my devotion to You. Father, forgive. I acknowledge in humble contrition that my love for you is weak that my effort to draw near to you is fleeting, that my warmest thoughts for You are cold that my will to serve and to obey is as fickle and faltering as the waves that recedes every time. I confess that my love for You is not as warm and aflame as it ought--
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