PRAYER

William Blake

Song of Los

Plate 1, Copy E

 PRAYER OF ABANDONMENT

Ellie, 

 

I abandon myself into your hands;

do with me what you will.

Whatever you may do, I thank you:

I am ready for all, I accept all.

Let only your will be done in me, 

and in all my creatures - 

I wish no more than this , Ellie.

Into your hands I commend my soul;

I offer it to you with all the love of

    my heart,

for I love you Ellie,

and so need to give myself,

to surrender myself into your hands,

without reserve,

and with boundless confidence,

 

For you are my Ellie.

 

"...listen to the way Jesus says your name, the way he calls you. He says your name as no one has ever said or will ever say your name. He calls you as only He who made you can call you, and he compels you to experience something of the fullness he has implanted in you because you are his image and his likeness."