A prayer
based on ‘Suscipe me’,
a prayer made by a novice on entering a Benedictine Community
Accept me, O Lord,
just as I am,
in my frailty,
my inadequacy,
my contradictions
and my confusions.
Accept me,
with all those discordant currents
that pull me in so many directions.
Accept all of this,
and help me so to live with what I am,
that what I am
may become my way to you.
from The Book of a Thousand Prayers by Angela Ashwin, #935