I cannot do this alone.

O God, early in the morning I cry to you. 


Help me to pray


And to concentrate my thoughts on you:


I cannot do this alone.


In me there is darkness, But with you there is light;


I am lonely, but you do not leave me;


I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;


I am restless, but with you there is peace.


In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;


I do not understand your ways,
 But you know the way for me…


Restore me to liberty,


And enable me to live now


That I may answer before you and before me.


Lord, whatever this day may bring,


Your name be praised.



Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5