Daily Prayer - With You I can find my way to Him

Good Tuesday morning, my friends.
 
After preaching a particularly challenging sermon, where He told the people they must eat His flesh and drink His blood, many of Jesus' followers abandoned Him.  Jesus then turned to his closest friends and asked "Do you want to go away as well?"  Peter answered: "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." (John 6:67-69)
 
I struggle with following Jesus.  I find Him very challenging.  I am often frustrated with what I perceive as a lack of communication on His part; that he seems to sometimes ignore my present plight.  But whenever I think of turning away Peter's reply comes to mind: to whom would I go?  A prayer like the one below is what I need at those times to recalibrate my heart.  With it I can shake off the lies of the enemy who would have me believe that God does not truly care for me and allow me re-focus on Jesus - "my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, my Guide, my Consoler, my Comforter, my Hope, my Joy, and my Peace".
 
Fix your focus today on the Holy One of God.
 

Grace and peace be yours in abundance,
Bruce 
 
 
Dear Lord, help me keep my eyes on you.
You are the incarnation of Divine Love,
you are the expression of God's infinite compassion,
you are the visible manifestation of the Father's holiness.
You are beauty, goodness, gentless, forgiveness, and mercy.
In you all can be found.
Outside of you nothing can be found.
 
Why should I look elsewhere or go elsewhere?
You have the words of eternal life,
you are food and drink,
you are the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
You are the light that shines in the darkness,
the lamp on the lamp stand,
the house on the hilltop.
You are the perfect Icon of God.
In and through you I can see the Heavenly Father,
and with you I can find my way to him.
 
O Holy One, Beautiful One, Glorious One,
be my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, my Guide,
my Consoler, my Comforter, my Hope, my Joy, and my Peace.
To you I want to give all that I am.
Let me be generous, not stingy or hesitant.
Let me give you all--
all I have, think, do and feel.
It is yours, O Lord.
Please accept it and make it fully your own.
Amen.
 
(a prayer of Henri Nouwen, from A Cry for Mercy by way of http://bobhostetler.blogspot.ca/2013/12/incarnation-of-divine-love.html)