A Prayer
by Joan Estelle High
©2000
Thou God who made the world.
Create in me a new body
Renewed in strength, vigorous and sound.
Remove from this body any blemish
That would keep it from being the perfect body.
Cast the beam from my eyes that I may be healed now.
I know there is no disease, no illness, no blemish.
That you can not set straight.
To limit God is an error of my mind.
Thou God who made the world.
Create in me a new mind.
Renewed in strength, vigorous and sound.
Remove from my mind all sin and stain.
Make my mind more like the mind of Christ.
Thou God who made the world
Call my soul to Thee
Let me remember how it was in the Garden.
Where you walked with me in the cool of the day.
Renew my strength, give me support to go on.
As I will reach ever upward to my heavenly home.
Let me find at last the path that leads me back to Thee.
Amen