An Evening Prayer.

How do I approach Thee?
My hands are dirty and my heart so dark.
I have chosen what I want today.
I have thought things I should have fought with truth.
And though I have been the target of evil,
I have also seen it arise from within my own flesh.
But each day is new with your mercy;
Each morning I am given more grace.
But for now, as I face sleep and turn off the noise of the day,
I know that forgiveness has visited me again.
I know you have poured the water of purity over me.
As I sit here in the ending and the final moments of another day
Passing behind me and left now in smaller view,
I am not sure how to thank you.
I am not sure what to say.
I listen for your voice, as I know it is so soft.
Sometimes it seems silent.
But I guess it’s in silence that you speak.
I guess when it’s dark you visit weary souls.
In time I have seen you quietly change me.
Over many years you have influenced who I am.
May tomorrow be a step closer.
When I awake, fill me with more of You;
Pull from me, that which seeks to distract me
And give me sharp vision for things of Heaven
And hope in You.