A prayer for you...

I pray again not just for your well-being and safety, but...

• For you to have a re-connection with your family, and your parents: the very people who gave life to you and spent their prime years working so that they can put you and your siblings through school for a better future

• For you to rediscover your passion and zest for life so that you will jump out of bed everyday excited to accomplish everything for the day

• For you to stay strong in your faith, knowing that if you can't see God ahead in your times of need, that's because He's always behind you to support you when you fall

• For you to have a new tomorrow that is defined not just by actions and results, but by love, relationships and the simple joy of living in the present

• For you to be true to yourself: Not by holding back because of the perpetual voice in your head that never stops telling you what to do in life, but to do what you really want to do because your heart aches for it

• For you to have the time to stop and smell the roses, lie on the grass and admire the stars, and to watch in awe the amazing sun-rise and sun-set that marks the daily passage of time for all life forms

• For you to simply be you because you are unique as created by God, not by Man or society, nor the very words that we use to put ourselves down everytime we say "I'm not good enough"

• For you to say this prayer for someone else and to pass it along. You never know how much it will mean for someone else. As much as it has helped me make someone's day, I hope it will help you make someone else' day

Amen.