29 Elul 5777

Dear Heavenly Father,

Praised are you my Lord and may your name be praised in the heavens above and on the earth below for ever and ever.

Thank you for bringing me to this day, for waking me and breathing life into my soul.  Thank you for blessing me with one more day to spend with those I love and one more chance to be your light in this world.  Father, please grant me the strength and the wisdom to walk in your word and to show your love.  Please fill my heart with mercy so that I may be as forgiving with others just as you have been forgiving with me.  Please allow your light to shine through me and to fill me with your truth and your love.  You are my God, I have chosen you to be my God and you are the root of my spirit.  You are my King and my Salvation and through your son, you have brought me back to you in full.  Thank you for keeping a place in your heart and in your Kingdom for me, and may your grace and wisdom guide my steps along the path you have chosen for me.  May you continue to guide my thoughts and my actions in all of your righteousness.

Father, please call to your children, for the sheep know the voice of their Shepard.  Call to them my God and free from the bondage of their sin.  Open their eyes to your wonders and your miracles.  Open their hearts to your love and your truth.  You are the one true living God who freed our ancestors from heavy bondage in Egypt and brought them to a life of freedom living in a land filled with milk and honey, the land of your promise.  Today, your children continue to be trapped in Egypt and continue living their life in bondage of their sin.  They do not know that the key to their freedom lies in your son.  They do not recognize that they are even in bondage.  O my Lord, how I pray for you to remove the scales from their eyes so they may see you, to unplug their ears so they can hear your truth, to tear the veil from the covering of their hearts so that your light can shine in their souls.  Father, may all knees bend to you, and may all your children raise their eyes to you, and may all of us speak at once, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!"

Blessed are you O Lord our our God the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob who is the creator of the heavens and earth and all that is contained within.

Amen!