There is something profoundly comforting about a faith with roots that deep. When you kneel and pray a prayer that millions of believers have prayed before you — across centuries, across continents, in languages you will never speak, in circumstances that mirror your own more closely than you would expect — you are not praying alone. You are joining something ancient and unbroken, a conversation between God and His people that started long before you arrived and will continue long after. That continuity is not a small thing. In a world that changes faster than most people can keep up with, it is one of the steadiest places left to stand.
That’s exactly what this collection of Catholic prayers is here to offer. You’ll find the best traditional and contemporary prayers for morning and evening, healing and strength, guidance and gratitude, the intercession of Mary and the saints, and the quiet desperate moments when you don’t know what to say but you know you need to say something. Pray them as they are or let them open the door to your own words. Come back to them on the days when faith feels easy and on the days when it feels like the hardest thing you’ve ever been asked to hold onto. God has been listening to these prayers for a very long time — and He is still listening now.
Catholic Prayers for Daily Life and God’s Presence
There is a Catholic understanding of the sacred that goes deeper than church on Sunday. It is the belief that God is present in every ordinary moment — in the morning offering, in the meal before it is eaten, in the decade of the Rosary prayed in a car on the way to work. That the sacred and the everyday are not two separate things but one continuous life laid before a God who never stops paying attention. These prayers are for that life. For the moments between the grand ones. For the Catholic soul that wants to feel God not just in the cathedral but in the kitchen, the commute, the quiet — and in every hard and human moment in between.
A Morning Offering for the Whole Day
Dear Lord, before anything else happens today — before the first obligation finds me, before the first distraction pulls at my attention — I offer You this day. Every breath of it. Every hour I can see coming and every one I cannot. The work of my hands, the words of my mouth, the hidden movements of my heart. I unite all of it with the sacrifice of Your Son in the Mass — the offering that makes every other offering holy. Let nothing today be wasted. Let nothing be lived apart from You. Take this ordinary day and make it a prayer. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer Before the Blessed Sacrament
Lord Jesus, You are truly present here — Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity — and I have come because I know nowhere else where I am closer to You than this. I don’t always have the right words when I kneel before You. Some days I come with a list. Some days I come with nothing at all, just the weight of being human and the need to be near something holy. Be here for me the way only You can be. Let Your presence work in me what I cannot work in myself. I am not worthy — but You invited me anyway. Here I am, Lord. In Your most holy name, amen.
A Prayer for the Morning
Heavenly Father, You have given me another morning — another chance to begin again, to love better, to live more fully in the grace You are constantly extending. I rise with the sign of the cross on my lips and Your name the first word on my tongue. Guard this day. Guide my steps. Let every moment be an act of love — even the ones that are frustrating, even the ones that are ordinary to the point of invisibility. You see them all. Sanctify them all. Let this day be a small but genuine act of worship offered by a soul who wants to belong entirely to You. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer Before Holy Mass
Lord, I am about to enter into the most holy mystery — the re-presentation of Your Son’s sacrifice, the moment when heaven and earth press close together in a way I will never fully understand this side of eternity. Prepare my heart. Shake off the distraction I carried through the door. Make me present — fully, genuinely present — to what is about to happen. Let me not receive You today out of habit or obligation. Let me receive You with the hunger of someone who knows exactly what they are receiving and who could never deserve it and who comes anyway, every time, because You are all I have. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer After Holy Communion
Jesus, You are inside me now — not as a feeling but as a fact, the most astonishing fact of my faith. I do not know how to be worthy of this. I only know that You told me to come. So I came. And now I sit in the silence that follows receiving You and I ask only this: stay. Let what just happened not evaporate the moment I walk back into the noise of my life. Let this communion change something — in how I speak to someone difficult, how I carry my suffering, how I love a person I find hard to love today. Be in me, Lord. Actually in me. Let it mean something. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer at the End of the Day
Lord, the day is ending and I come before You the way a child comes before a parent at the end of a long day — a little worn, a little grateful, with a full account to give. I examine what I did with the hours You gave me. Where I loved well — thank You. Where I fell short — I am sorry. Where I missed what You placed in front of me — open my eyes tomorrow. Your mercy is new every morning and tonight I rest in the certainty of that. I am not afraid of tomorrow because I know who holds it. Into Your hands I commend this night and every person I love. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for the Presence of God Throughout the Day
Father, I want to practice Your presence today — not the polished, church-lobby version of devotion but the raw, continuous, moment-by-moment kind. The kind Brother Lawrence found in the kitchen. The kind the saints found in the most unremarkable corners of their lives. Let me find You there too. In the task I don’t want to do. In the person I’d rather avoid. In the silence between conversations and the heartbeat before a decision. You are in all of it. Help me to stop living past You on my way to something I think matters more. You are what matters most. Let me live like I believe that today. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer Before Work or Daily Tasks
Dear Lord, I pick up these tasks — ordinary, unglamorous, frequently repetitive — and I offer them to You. Not because the work is remarkable but because the offering is. Whatever I do today, help me to do it as unto You. With the care of someone who understands that nothing done in love for You is small. Let the quality of how I work be a form of prayer. Let the faithfulness I bring to the unremarkable things be a reflection of the God who was faithful in carrying a cross on an ordinary Friday in an ordinary city where most people didn’t stop to look. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for a Distracted Soul
God, I come to You today from a place of scattered attention. The world has gotten into my head and my prayer is thin and my focus is all over the place and I am struggling to feel any of this the way I want to feel it. But I know that feeling is not the measure of faith. I know that showing up is its own act of love — that the dry prayer said in fidelity is worth more than the fervent one said in comfort. So here I am. Distracted and faithful. Scattered and surrendered. Make something of this, Lord, because I am not sure I can. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit. Come in the way You came at Pentecost — not quietly, not politely, but with a power that changed everything and everyone it touched. I need that today. Not a gentle suggestion in the right direction but a genuine movement in my soul. Kindle in me the fire of Your love. Give me the counsel I lack, the fortitude I keep running out of, the wisdom to see my life the way You see it. You were given to me at Confirmation. I am claiming that gift today, out loud, with everything I have. Come and set me on fire for the things that matter to God. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Simple Prayer for Any Moment
Lord, here I am. That is the whole prayer today. Here I am — in this moment, in this place, with whatever I am carrying and whatever I have left to give. Here I am the way Samuel said it in the dark, not yet understanding but willing. The way Mary said it when the angel arrived with something too large for her to fully comprehend. Here I am. Find me in this moment. Use me. Speak to me. Let this single act of showing up be enough when I have nothing more eloquent to offer. You have always been faithful to the ones who simply come. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for a Holy and Purposeful Life
Heavenly Father, I want my life to mean something beyond what the world can measure. Not fame or success or the accumulation of things — something real. Something that holds up at the end, when what is left is only what was eternal. I want to be a saint — not the stained-glass version but the gritted-teeth, getting-back-up, choosing-You-again-after-falling-again kind. Shape me, Lord. Break what needs breaking. Sanctify what can be saved. Let my life, ordinary as it is, be something You can point to and call holy. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
Catholic Prayers for Mercy, Forgiveness, and the Sacrament of Confession
The Catholic tradition carries something the world has largely lost — the specific, named, embodied experience of being forgiven. Not the vague reassurance that God is probably fine with you. The actual sacramental encounter of speaking your sin out loud, hearing the words of absolution spoken over you, and walking out of that confessional changed. These prayers are for the moments before and after that encounter. For the soul wrestling with shame, circling the same sin it swore it wouldn’t return to, carrying guilt it doesn’t know how to put down. God’s mercy is not a concept in the Catholic faith — it is a person, and His name is Jesus.
A Prayer Before Confession
Lord Jesus, I am about to do the most vulnerable thing a person can do — speak the truth about myself out loud to another human being in Your name. I am not going to minimize what I have done. I am not going to dress it up or only bring the presentable version of my failures. I am bringing all of it. Because You said that whatever is loosed on earth will be loosed in heaven, and I need it loosed — I need to walk out of that confessional genuinely free rather than just temporarily relieved. Prepare my heart for a real encounter. Let me leave different. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer After Confession
Father, it happened again — the forgiveness I did not deserve was given to me anyway. I don’t know how to receive it without being undone by it. The priest said the words and I felt the weight shift and I know that it is real — not a feeling but a sacramental fact, as real as the air I am breathing right now. My sins are gone. Not buried. Gone. Let that truth change how I walk out of here. Let it change how I speak to the person who most needs my patience tonight. Let what just happened in that confessional be the most formative moment of my day. Thank You, Lord. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer of Contrition for a Repeating Sin
God, I am back at the same place again and I won’t pretend I am surprised, even though I wish I were. The same failure, the same choice made in a moment when I knew better, the same morning-after shame sitting in my chest like something familiar and unwelcome. I am not going to make grand promises right now. I know what grand promises from my own strength are worth. Instead I am asking You for something different — not willpower but transformation. Change the thing in me that keeps choosing this. Go deeper than the surface of my behavior and touch the root. I am tired of this cycle. I believe You can end it. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer to the Divine Mercy
Jesus, I trust in You. Not in my own goodness — I don’t have enough. Not in my track record — it is too inconsistent. Not in my feelings about Your forgiveness — they fluctuate in ways my faith cannot afford to follow. I trust in You. In the ocean of mercy that poured from Your side on the cross. In the red and white rays of grace that Your mercy makes available to the worst of sinners. I am a sinner who needs what You offer and I am coming to You in the only posture that makes sense before a merciful God — empty-handed, honestly sorry, and trusting. Have mercy on me. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer When Shame Keeps You From God
Lord, I have been staying away because shame made the distance feel safer than closeness. But I know what the prodigal son knew when he finally came to himself — that staying away only makes the hunger worse, that the Father’s house is the only real answer to the starvation of a soul that has been trying to feed itself on things that don’t nourish. I am coming home. Not because I have cleaned myself up enough to deserve it — I haven’t. But because You told the parable specifically for people like me, and You made the father run. Run toward me, Lord. I am coming. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for the Grace of True Sorrow
Heavenly Father, I want to be sorry not just for the consequences of what I have done but for the thing itself — for the wound it made in my relationship with You, for the offense against a God who has been nothing but good to me. Give me contrition that goes all the way down. Not the sorrow that is just embarrassment in holy clothing, not the regret that is only about how the sin affected me — real sorrow, the kind that loves You enough to grieve what grieved You. Let it break what needs to be broken in me and lead me to the amendment of life I keep promising and keep needing help to live. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for Someone Carrying Old Guilt
God, there is something I confessed a long time ago and received absolution for and You have forgiven — and yet I am still carrying it. The guilt has outlasted the sacrament in my emotional life and I don’t know how to put it down. Teach me to receive Your forgiveness all the way. Not just intellectually but in the body, in the gut, in the place where the guilt lives. If the priest said the words and You spoke through him and my sin is gone — then let me live as a forgiven person lives. Not flagellating myself forever. Actually free. You paid too much for my freedom for me to refuse to walk in it. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for Mercy Before God’s Judgment
Lord Jesus, when I think about standing before You at the end — not the sanitized theological version of that moment but the actual reality of it — I feel the full weight of what I am and what I have done and what I have left undone. I am not ready on my own. I will never be ready on my own. My only hope is the same one every Catholic has placed their hope in for two thousand years: Your mercy. The wounds in Your hands and feet and side. The Mass. The sacraments. Mother Church. Be merciful to me, Lord — not because I deserve it but because mercy is what You came to show. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for a Hardened Conscience
Father, I am concerned about what I have become comfortable with. Things that used to bother me no longer do — sins I once confessed quickly now sit unacknowledged for weeks. I don’t want a hardened conscience. A conscience that has stopped flinching is not a sign of maturity — it is a sign of something going quiet that should not go quiet. Come and sensitize me again. Let Your Spirit convict me of what I need to bring to confession, not to condemn me but to free me. Keep my conscience alive to Your law and Your love. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for the Grace to Forgive Another
Lord, I know that the Our Father contains the most dangerous prayer I can say — that You will forgive me as I forgive others. I have been praying it without fully meaning the second half. There is someone I have not forgiven and the unforgiveness has become a weight that is hurting me more than it is hurting them. I cannot manufacture forgiveness on my own. I have tried. Give it to me as a grace, the way every good thing I have comes to me — not as an achievement but as a gift from a God who forgave me first and most. Help me to forgive. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
Catholic Prayers Through Mary and the Saints
The Catholic faith is not a solitary journey. It is walked in the company of an enormous family — the Church Militant, the Church Suffering, the Church Triumphant — all in communion with each other across the veil that separates this life from the next. Mary is not worshipped in this tradition but she is known, deeply and intimately, as the Mother who has never once stopped interceding for her children. The saints are not relics of the past but living members of the Body of Christ who have crossed the finish line first and still reach back with their prayers. Ask them. They are listening.
A Prayer to Our Lady in Times of Need
Mary, Mother of God and my mother — I come to you the way a child comes to a mother when they don’t know how to find the right words on their own. You know what it is to carry something that was too large for a human heart. You carried it for thirty-three years and at the end you stood at the foot of the cross and didn’t run. I need your intercession today. Bring what I am carrying before your Son. You have His ear and He has never refused you. Pray for me, Mary. I am one of yours and I need help that only comes through you to Him. Hail Mary, full of grace, pray for me. Amen.
A Prayer of the Hail Mary Reflection
Heavenly Father, as I pray the Hail Mary today I am not reciting — I am reaching. I am reaching across the distance between my small and struggling faith and the fullness of grace that was poured into Mary before the world even knew what grace would cost. She said yes when she didn’t understand everything. She held her yes through the sword that Simeon promised would pierce her soul. Let her yes speak into my life today — into the place where I am struggling to say yes to what You are asking of me. Through her intercession, give me her trust. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer of the Rosary Intention
Lord Jesus, I am picking up these beads today not as a ritual to complete but as a rope to hold. Each mystery a window into Your life — Your mother’s yes, Your presentation in the temple, Your agony in the garden, Your resurrection, Your crowning of the Queen of Heaven. Let me enter each one today as a participant and not an observer. Meet me inside the mysteries. Let the repetition not be emptiness but depth — the depth of a soul that keeps returning to the same truth because the truth is inexhaustible and because I always find something new in it when I come back again. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer to Saint Joseph
Joseph, father of Jesus and protector of the Holy Family — I come to you as a patron of the interior life, of faithful work done in obscurity, of a man who said yes to an assignment that asked everything and explained almost nothing. Intercede for me in this particular need I carry today. You who held the Son of God in your arms and taught Him to work with His hands — help me to hold what I have been given with the same faithful, quiet, unglamorous faithfulness. Pray for my family. Pray for my work. Pray that I might carry my vocation with the dignity and steadiness you carried yours. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer to a Patron Saint
Dear [saint’s name], you know this road I am on — you walked it too, though in a different century, under different pressures, with the same essential human heart trying to find its way toward God. You were not perfect before you were holy. You struggled, failed, and rose, and the struggle is part of what makes your intercession real. Pray for me today. Not from a distance but as a member of the same Body, as a companion in faith who has seen the finish line and is calling back to encourage the ones still running. I need that encouragement today. Intercede for me before the throne of God. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows
Mary, you who stood at the foot of the cross and watched what no mother should ever have to watch — you understand suffering that makes no immediate sense, grief that goes beyond words, the silence of God in a moment when everything in you wanted Him to speak. I bring you my sorrow today. Not because I expect you to remove it — you know better than anyone that suffering is sometimes the doorway to something that could not be reached any other way. I ask only that you stand with me the way you stood at Calvary. You didn’t run. Stand with me. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Little Flower, you who understood that greatness in the Kingdom is found in the smallest acts of love — teach me your little way. I am not capable of great heroics for God. But I am capable of small things done with great love, and you showed the whole Church that those small things are not less than the great ones. Help me to find God in the ordinary. In the irritation I choose to meet with patience. In the thankless task I complete without complaint. In the person no one notices to whom I give my full attention. Let my small offerings add up, through your intercession, to a life that pleased God. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for the Intercession of All Saints
Lord, I do not pray alone. I pray in the company of every saint who has ever lifted their voice to You — the known and the unknown, the canonized and the quietly holy, the martyrs and the mystics and the ordinary mothers who prayed their families into faith across centuries I will never see. Today I add my voice to that endless prayer. I am small in it and it is large and I am grateful to belong to something so much larger than myself. Hear the prayer of Your whole Church — the one on earth and the one already with You — as we call out together for mercy, for grace, for Your will to be done. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe, you who appeared to Juan Diego not in the halls of power but in the humility of a hillside, to a man the world would have overlooked — remind me that God consistently chooses what the world bypasses. You left your image on a cloak as a sign that the poorest and most forgotten are precious to your Son. Intercede for the forgotten ones today — the marginalized, the unborn, the lonely, the displaced. And intercede for me in my own smallness, in the moments when I feel like someone the world has overlooked. Remind me that your Son sees me clearly and loves what He sees. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer of the Memorare
Mother Mary, remember that it is a thing unheard of that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly to you. I come to you weary and weak and in genuine need of what only your intercession can bring. Do not dismiss my petition. Bring it before your Son with the love of a mother whose children are always her concern. I trust in your compassion. I trust in your closeness to Him. I have nowhere else to turn first but to you, and through you to Him. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend me in battle. Be my protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, I humbly pray. And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. I am not asking this out of fear — I am asking it because I know what is at war for my soul and I want the right captain in the field. Stand between me and everything that wants to destroy what God has built in me. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
Catholic Prayers for Suffering, Healing, and God’s Will
The cross is not incidental to the Catholic faith — it is central. Hanging at the front of every Catholic church, worn around necks, traced over chests every time a Catholic enters a sacred space — the cross is the loudest thing Catholicism has to say about suffering. It says: this is not wasted. It says: the God you are praying to was not protected from pain — He walked into it deliberately. He carried it. He transformed it into the most powerful act of love the universe has ever seen. These prayers are for the suffering Catholic. For the sick body and the broken spirit and the soul trying to understand how to unite their pain to His.
A Prayer for Healing
Lord Jesus, You healed the blind man, the paralytic, the woman who had been bleeding for twelve years, the daughter of Jairus. You did not tell any of them that their suffering was spiritually useful and they should embrace it. You healed them. I am coming to You with the same need and the same faith and the same request: heal me. Heal what the doctors can reach and heal what they cannot. And as I pray for healing, I also pray for the grace to trust You in every outcome — because You are Lord whether the healing comes quickly or slowly or in a way I cannot yet recognize. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer in Sickness and Physical Pain
Heavenly Father, my body is suffering right now and I want to be honest with You about how hard that is. I am trying to offer this up in union with the suffering of Christ — to make something of the pain that would otherwise just be pain. But I am not always able to do that gracefully. Some days the pain just hurts and I can barely pray and the offering feels beyond what I have to give. On those days, let my suffering itself be the prayer. You see what I cannot articulate. You receive what I cannot consciously offer. Be near me in the pain, Lord. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for Acceptance of God’s Will
Father, Your will be done. I want to mean that as completely as Your Son meant it in the Garden of Gethsemane — kneeling in sweat and anguish, asking if there was another way, and then surrendering so completely that what came next was possible. I have my own version of the garden prayer. There is something I do not want, something I am asking You to remove if at all possible. But I am also trying — imperfectly, on my knees — to say: not my will but Yours. Take what I have offered. Meet me in the surrender. Let Your will, even when it is hard, be the thing I trust most. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer During a Dark Night of the Soul
God, I am in the dark and You feel absent. The prayer feels like it is going nowhere. The sacraments feel like empty ritual. The faith that used to hold me up has gone thin and dry and I am frightened by the silence. Saint John of the Cross said this happens — that You withdraw the felt sense of Your presence not as abandonment but as invitation into a deeper faith. I want to believe that. I want to trust that the silence is not punishment, that the darkness is a doorway and not a dead end. Hold me in this, Lord, even when I cannot feel Your hands. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for a Peaceful Death
Lord Jesus, You commended Your spirit into Your Father’s hands at the moment of Your death and I want to live in that posture — always, but especially when the end of this life comes near. Give me a holy death. Not necessarily a painless one or a dramatically peaceful one, but a holy one — with my soul in the state of grace, with the sacraments of the Church, with my hand held by people I love and my heart held by You. Let my last act of love on this earth be an act of trust. Into Your hands, Lord — now and at the hour of my death. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for Those Who Are Suffering
Heavenly Father, I bring before You today everyone who is suffering — the sick in body, the wounded in spirit, the grieving who cannot see past their loss, the lonely who have gone weeks without being truly seen. I cannot carry all of their pain. But You can. You did. You took it up onto the cross and held it there. Let the Passion of Your Son be the comfort that reaches every suffering person I love and every suffering person I will never know. Let no pain in this world go unwitnessed by the God who bled in the garden and carried a cross through a city. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Merciful Lord, I pray today for the holy souls in Purgatory — for the ones I knew and loved who are being purified for the fullness of Your presence, and for the ones who have no one left to pray for them. Let the graces of the Mass and the indulgences of the Church speed their passage into the joy for which they were created. Especially today I pray for [name] — hold them in Your mercy. And let the love that prays for them across the veil be one more sign that the Communion of Saints is real and that nothing of love is ever truly lost. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for Spiritual Dryness
God, I have been going through the motions and You know it better than I do. The Mass, the Rosary, the daily prayers — they feel mechanical and hollow and I don’t know how to get back to the place where they felt alive. I know that fidelity in the dry seasons is worth more than fervor in the easy ones — the saints told me so and I believe them, even when I don’t feel it. So I am being faithful anyway. Showing up to the dryness. Trusting that the aridity is not permanent, that the well is not empty, that You are present in the faithfulness even when You are not felt in the feeling. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for Peace in Suffering
Lord, I am not asking You to remove the suffering today — though I would welcome that. I am asking for the peace that coexisted with suffering in Your own life — the peace You had in the storm-tossed boat while the disciples panicked, the peace You carried into the Passion, the peace that passed all understanding and surpasses my ability to manufacture it on my own. Give me that peace. Not the peace of someone who has no pain but the peace of someone who has pain and has surrendered it to a God who knows exactly what it means to suffer and who promises that suffering is not the end of any story He is writing. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Prayer for Trust When Life Makes No Sense
Father, I cannot make sense of this. I have tried — I have looked for the lesson, searched for the meaning, attempted to see what You might be doing in what feels purely like loss — and I cannot find it. I am left with only faith. Not the faith that has answers but the faith that trusts the One who does. You see the whole tapestry from above while I see only the knot on the underside. Help me to trust the Weaver even when the underside is all I can see. Your ways are higher than mine. I hold onto that today as the one thing I am certain of. Through Christ our Lord, amen.
A Closing Prayer of Surrender to God
Lord, I come to the end of all my praying and I find that everything I have said reduces to one thing: I am Yours. Whatever I am, however broken, however inconsistent, however many times I have said this and then walked it back — I am Yours. Take what I have offered today. Take the morning I gave You before it got complicated and the evening I am giving You now after the complications. Take the faith and the doubt and the love and the fear — all of it — and do with it what only You can do. I surrender. I trust. I believe. Help my unbelief. Through Christ our Lord, amen.