Giving Up My Rights

Dear Jesus,

Today I give up my "right" to be...

- debt-free
- near my family
- part of a close community of friends
- married
- able to go back to Yap
- liked, appreciated, respected, and understood by others
- healthy
- able to live a long life
- safe
- comfortable and well-fed
- in the kind of weather I like
- at peace
- certain of the future
- happy

I realize the truth--that I deserve nothing better than death, because I was born a rebel.  However You choose to bless me is on Your terms.  You already gave me the gift of existence and then the gift of a future un-ending existence in a perfect world.  But even better, You gave me Yourself.  When I give up my rights, I can see You for who You are a little better.  You can draw me a little closer, and help me to understand and love Your heart a little deeper.  You teach me that You really are enough, that Your grace really is worth the exchange of my little list of things I think I deserve.

Amen.