Practical Prayers

I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who sent me.                                                             
I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me. I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me. I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.

I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.                                   
I made the decision myself, but I can also decide otherwise.                             
I want to decide otherwise, because I want to be at peace.                               
I do not feel guilty, because the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my wrong decision if I will let Him.                                                                 
I choose to let Him, by allowing Him to decide for God for me.

What I experience I will make manifest. If I am guiltless, I have nothing to fear.
I choose to testify to my acceptance of the Atonement, not to its rejection.
I would accept my guiltlessness by making it manifest and sharing it.
Let me bring peace to God's Son from his Father.

I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself.
I know that you will be released, unless I want to use you to imprison myself. In the name of my freedom I choose your release, because I recognize that we will be released together.

I who am host to God am worthy of Him. He Who established His dwelling place in me, created it as He would have it be. It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.  I need add nothing to His plan. But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it.   

I desire this holy instant for myself, that I may share it with my brother, whom I love. It is not possible that I can have it without him, or he without me. Yet it is wholly possible for us to share it now. And so I choose this instant as the one to offer to the Holy Spirit, that His blessing may descend on us, and keep us both in peace.

Take this from me and look upon it, judging it for me. Let me not see it as a sign of sin and death, nor use it for destruction. Teach me how not to make of it an obstacle to peace, but let You use it for me, to facilitate its coming.

~Prayers out of the textbook of a Course in Miracles~