dear heavenly father,
sometimes you are so gentle in our lives that you take every single cherished or important thing or person away. sometimes you are willing to show us your lovingkindness no clearly and directly that you leave us with nothing but lint in our pockets and we are truly on the streets and alone. sometimes you are so fast to come to our aid that you make us wait for months or even years. every good and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the father of lights with whom there is no doubt nor shadow of variation. father, in my own life, i would not turn my whole heart and mind and being over to you until you boiled everything down to human consciousness, when i had lost the love of my life like this young man has, when i had truly lost everything and every friend without a dollar to my name and sores in my ear and on my face. lord, you always say 'today' -- 'this is the day the Lord has made'. make this today in this young man's life the today that is with you like a thousand years. send him a bible or direct him to internet resources. so often did i pray prayers like this one, each time i thought i was at the end of my rope Lord and surely you were leading me to my death as there was nothing left of the life i had led, and i doubted then lord up until the 'hour i first believed' that you listened to those prayers. but from that instant on Lord you have never let me go and you never will. show this young man the part of his heart that is crying to you the most father and show him your love in all things great and small. send him a good spirit, a good attitude, a good train of thought by which he might commit each passing moment more and more to the filling with your eternity father. 'come here all ye who labor and are burdened, and i will give you rest'. show this young man the inexpressible bliss of beatitude and the amazing triumph of the sermon on the mount, father. make his heart life a child's and his mind eager for the ever-unfolding revelation in your word and throughout your creation. and lord, if it be thy will, restore the love between this young man and woman, and show them both that any relationship not utterly founded and grounded upon you lord will end up shallow, abusive and dependent, and that your plans for love, marriage and matters of the heart is truly the one for which we were all designed and have always been dreaming of all along, even if we did not know it until now.
praise you jesus. in your holy name we pray amen.  | 
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