For this new week

Father,
At the beginning of this new week, I come to You.
What should I say? What should I pray?
What are the priorities? What should be the priorities?

LORD, I'm walking with someone through something, and it is so easy to get agitated and entangled. It is so easy for me to get frustrated and angry when what is said is all emotion and changes from one day to the next. What are you doing in this life LORD? What should my part be? How can I be involved and guide, and yet lay it down and leave all the outcomes with you? And why do I get agitated? What's with that?  Father, please lead...

How should I order my days this week LORD? Some of the little and simple changes I am making--for years I have neglected, and it would be easy to neglect again...help me to persist, find and hold onto better ways of thinking that make persistence more likely, and the process fun. May I value the rewards of ... a more peaceful heart, a more healthy body, noticing YOU, joy and hope.

And there is one habit I'm trying to build, that morning time with you--earlier, based on a good sleep the night before too. I just start to get into a rhythm, and then on Fridays and Saturdays it often falls apart under the busyness of that day and not yet being prepared. This past week, lost it with one night of agitation and stuff that was hard to lay down. One week from now I'll be starting that JOURNEY, and I'll really need to be disciplined, keep up a discipline. Help me LORD, to more and more centre my life around You, say "no" to other things.

Father, I ask for clarity around two of the activities that need some preparation this week. There are a couple where the path is pretty clear, yet I still cry out for Your insight and guidance, and for Your work in students' hearts to make it meaningful for them. And then there is one where it could just be all hard and confusing and awkward. Working with the other person leading it has ceased to be a joy or pleasure, mostly pain and draining. Is there something left to work for in this working relationship, in what has been invested in this employee? Or should it just end when the contract expires at the end of this year?

I need to be so careful in how to order my days...
Time is running out tonight...
I haven't said everything...
Need to stop and get to bed...
Father, I entrust this week into Your hands
Please lead, please guide, please bless us LORD, with Your presence, Your love, Your strength, Your insight, Your protection. Bind the evil one--he has no right or authority here.
This week, may I continue to cry out to You
Knowing You hear and answer!