A Morning Prayer for Holy Week

O God,

early in the morning I cry to you.

Help me to pray,

and to concentrate my thoughts on you,

I cannot do this alone.

In me there is darkness,

but with you there is light;

I am lonely, but you do not leave me;

I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;

I am restless, but with you there is peace.

In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience.

I do not understand your ways, 

but you know the way for me.

Restore me to liberty,

and enable me so to live now

that I may answer before you and before me.

Lord, whatever this day may bring,

Your name be praised. 

Amen.

 (By Dietrich Bonhoeffer - found at p. 1002 of Volume III of "For All the Saints: A Prayer Book For and By the Church").