The following is a prayer that was posted on Sarah Delk’s blog, a middle school girl in our youth group, TNL. I was so moved by openness and passion in it, that I wanted to share it with you all. I never cease to be amazed by the youth of our church, and here’s a great example of why. It’s so easy to think of teenagers, especially middle schoolers, as just being kids, with no spiritual insights. But then I stumble across something like this prayer that reminds me that maybe there’s things I can learn from them. Thanks Sarah, for sharing this with us, and for letting me post it on here.
Dear Lord:
“I want to be one with you. I want to be wholly and completely grounded in you. I want you to take me and re-mold and reshape me until I am exactly how you want me to be, perfectly fit to complete your will for my life. I want you to flow through my veins, burn through my bones and overflow into my life. I want you to effect the way I act, the way I talk, and the way I see things. I want the things that make you cry to make me cry. I want to have so much of your heart that I can even hear it beat! I want to know your passions and learn the sight of hopelessness. I want you to be part of me. No. I want to you to be all of me. Just you, nothing else. All of you, none of me. “
April 25th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Wow, thanks Sarah for challenging me with your love and passion for the Lord.
April 26th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Thanks for sharing this Amy and Sarah!
Sarah, I have browsed your blog several times, and I am so impressed, encouraged and challenged by your heart for the Lord! It reminds me of the verse in 1 Timothy 4:12, “Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.”