“With fumbling words, we give ourselves to prayer:

We want to be rid of that which comes between us and Thy vision. Teach us how. We are but little children stumbling in the darkness. Do not reject even our weakness, O God, but accept us totally as we are. Work over us, knead us and fashion us until at last we take on the character which is Thy Spirit and the mind which is Thy Mind… Amen.

–Howard Thurman, The Inward Journey, pg. 76