I cannot let me life be consumed by tomorrow's concerns and neglect the present moment and what it asks of me. Why do I hold so tightly to something that I know cannot come to be until tomorrow, as if by thinking about it I could wish it into resolution today? Lord, care for me. I need you today.

Caussade suggests we "forget ourselves completely so that he becomes our whole joy and his pleasure and glory, his being, our only good. To think of ourselves as objects, sold and delivered for God to do with what he likes."

Lord, continue to teach me how to DELIGHT in you. For the JOY set before me, jesus endured the cross, despising its shame. Continue to teach me that you are glorified as I enjoy you, enjoy being your daughter and your bride, enjoy the promise that has been sealed that I will dwell with you forever. In my deep, overflowing joy, the people I know will see how beautiful you are, how much joy you bring into our lives. You love us more than anyone else and you are committed to our joy, knowing that our hearts can only find rest when they rest in you.

An excerpt from Screwtape Letters:

"You may wonder why the God does not make more use of His power to be sensibly present to human souls in any degree He chooses and at any moment. But merely to override a human will (as His presence in any but the faintest degree would certainly do) would be for Him useless. He cannot ravish. He can only woo. For His idea is for the creatures to be one with Him but yet themselves; merely to cancel them or assimilate them will not serve. Our cause (devil speaking) is never in more danger than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending, to do Gods will looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken and still obeys."

CS Lewis