O God, life has taken a good deal from me, but I want to begin by thanking you for all life has left me.

I can see and read; I can hear and listen; I can talk and speak with my friends. Though my body must stay in the one place , I can still send my mind and my imagination in adventurous travel. Once I was too busy doing things to think. Now I can think until I reach you and the things which really matter.

I have still books which I can read, Music I can listen to, wireless and television which I can hear and watch, even games which I can play in bed.

Foe all that, O gos I need your help more than I need anything else. Keep me cheerful even when it is very difficult. Keep me content when my whole being naturraly wants to be resentful. Let me not become querulous, complaining, demanding.Keep me from self-pity. Help me to be truly grateful for all that is done for me; and, even when it is the last thing that I feel like doing.help me to smile.

Bless the doctors and the nurses and the people who care for me and who look

after me; and give them skill to find a cure some day even for people like me.

When I feel that I am useless and a burden to others, help me to remember that I can still pray, and so help me constantly to uphold the hands of those I love, and constantly to bear them and myself to your throne of grace.

All this i ask for Your love's sake. AMEN