Testing

God our Father,
life pulls us in many directions,
and presents many possibilities.
Sometimes we do not know which way to turn.
There are so many claims upon our time,
so many demands for our attention,
that the very range of choices before us drives us to distraction.

It is then that we need you.
Yours is teh ultimate claim on our lives;
help us to listen for it in all the other
claims that are made on us.
Because we cannot do everything,
help us to get our priorities right,
to know what you want us to do now,
and what we have to leave.

May the stress and strain of life
not break us,
but to make us stronger,
for Jesus' sake.