Lord, You have loved me with so great a love that You have given me the capacity to choose--whether to choose wisely or foolishly. Lord, I offer You my ability to make choices--my freedom.

Lord, I offer not only my capacity to choose but also my will, everything I have chosen for myself, everything I intensely desire--my noble aspirations. I offer my mind, my consciousness--that which is most precious to me, and my memory--all the fullness of life, that which I fondly treasure in my heart.

Not because I reject Your gift of life, but because I acknowledge You as the bestower of all gifts, that I offer all I have and all that I am to You.

All I have and all I am are gifts from YOu to me. Spare me, O Lord, from owning for myself everything that has come from Your goodness. Remind me, that not having created myself, I myself, am not mine, but Yours.

I, being Yours, do with me as You wish--for I know You can only desire what in Your divine wisdom will do me good, will grant me joy, will bring me peace.

Lord, YOu know how difficult it is for me to surrender my entire self to You, but command, for I will obey--until Your desire for me is what I desire for myself, until Your will becomes my will.

I desire nothing else--neither riches nor power, neither honor nor fame, neither talents nor wisdom, neither friends nor myself.

O Lord, what can be greater or more precious than Your love and grace? Your love and grace suffice, for these make me infinitely rich. What else can I desire? Not even myself: my liberty, my will, my mind, my memory. You alone, O Lord, are enough for me.
Amen.