Prayer: With all the prayers and affirmations we may be doing, O Creator, there is still a lot to be said for just taking the time to listen to You speak inside our soul. Perhaps there will be words we can hear. Perhaps it will be more of a potent spiritual feeling that shall unfold at the right time. Perhaps it will be a kind of future blessing that shall guide us onward. Yet what I would like to acknowledge now is that while we should want to have the power to bless and elevate aspects of our lives, and especially those dear to us, we do not want to shut out the possibility that You have special work for us to complete. It may be for a short time or for decades. It may be a one-time effort to help but one person in one particular situation. Or it could be a spiritual task we are to involve ourselves deeply in for the rest of our life. We know we have a personal choice in all of this. Yet most of all, we now recognize that we are all partners together and our decisions are best reach in a mutual fashion, w