Lord, please help me to come to You. I pray that your Holy Spirit would make clear to me how I offend You and then I pray that He would give me the grace of Christ to live in Christ. These hard days for us in your church are teaching us so much. They also reveal to me the unplumbed depths of sin in my own heart that makes me sad to see. Forgive me for my binding desire to please & be accepted by some men. Forgive me for not looking at You alone, to You alone. Forgive me for not listening carefully in my desire to be thought well of. Forgive me, please, for the great lack of love in my own being. Please, I pray for your Holy Spirit to build the love of Christ in me. Forgive me for taking my eyes off You just long enough to see how much You are doing in me for then I struggle with pride. And how foolish, because it is truly none of me, but all of You that is good. Also please forgive me for my scattered brain of late. I feel a growing sloth that confuses me. Help me to be so focused on your calling and so obedient that I might not be so overwhelmed by disorganization & tiredness. Thank You for all the routines & graces You have given us that makes for a life of peace. I see ever more how sinful is the desire to know what is not given to us to know, and how wasteful is life when we strive to find out. Yet please help us to know the things we need to know to serve You well. Wouldn't it have been better to have known about P's involvement in Planned Parenthood to have stayed away from the dedication/celebration as Earl & Selah did? And yet in your providence we did attend. Oh Father, how it grieved some of us to hear our mighty, omnipotent, holy and precious God referred to as the "Big Man Upstairs." Help us to pray faithfully and righteously for the college. Lord, bring about, please, a humble courage in our prayers, our public prayers as well. Help us to please You--it is the desire You have given us.