Dear Lord,
Here I am at the end of a long journey. A journey during which you have clearly carried me. I’m weary and I’m starting, in my weak humanity, to break down. I feel this is happening just as you bless me with new life, and just as you show me the exit ramp to a wonderful life spent almost exclusively you, my family, and with my daughter and wife. I ask Lord that you give me the strength to complete the journey. Not for my own gain or happiness, but that I may provide it for my family. The family you have blessed me with. Dear God please have mercy. Have mercy and forgive all my sins, and give me strength when I alone am weak. Fill me with the Holy Spirit so that I may finish this race and see it through to the end. I believe this is a gift you have provided for my family, and I ask that you give me the strength to go whichever way you will for us. May your will, and not mine, be done. Please have mercy on me.