Protect me, not so much from harm, but from tendencies to desire from life only that which is pleasant and immediately gratifying to my mortal soul. When I fail to live up to your dream for me as a free moral agent in the reign of your Kingdom, protect me from myself.

Inasmuch as my mind can conceive of the the abstractions of this world together with the fascinating and intriguing intellectual heights of humankind, I desire most of all to love you deeply. Let not my lofty desires and perilous inclinations hinder my narrow path towards your eternal throne.

Through this day, may I yet uncover another fraction of my life story that I can offer up to you so you may weave this story - however minute, feeble, and insignificant - into the larger story of your Kingdom.

For thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.