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Prayer of an Addict

Only  you know the fight I am in. Only you know: the intensity with which I feel emotion the depth of my conversion the pains of mental illness    the daily battles that I fight the difficulty of motherhood the passion that  burns inside of me my desire to be understood my desire to understand  the natural man within me the love that fills my heart to bursting    the fears that haunt me the terror of placing my heart upon your altar   my willingness to give anything  for my children's happiness my selfish and stony heart my insatiable need to make a deep, lasting impact on the world my tears of inadequacy the sweetness of the fruit I have tasted the mists of darkness all around me my extreme exhaustion my willingness to endure  the canyons I have crawled through the mountains I have climbed my white-knuckled moments of sheer desperation the painful stretching of my soul my inexpressible love for my Savior   ...