"GOD, I offer myself to THEE - to build with me as THOU wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do THY will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of THY power, THY love, and THY way of life. May I do THY will always."

--BIG BOOK, page 63

"My CREATOR, I am now willing that YOU should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that YOU now remove from me every single defect of character which now stands in the way of my usefulness to YOU and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do YOUR bidding. Amen

--BIG BOOK, page 76

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace, that where there is hatred, I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony; that where there is error, I may bring truth; that where there is doubt, I may bring faith; that where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where there are shadows, I may bring light; that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.

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