This prayer will be featured for the next three weeks. The whole seems too rich for one week and it divides easily into three aspects of the divine for contemplation

O God, I Need Thee

I Need Thy Sense of Time
  Always I have an underlying anxiety about things.
  Sometimes I am in a hurry to achieve my ends
  And am completely without patience. It is hard for me
  To realize that some growth is slow,
  That all processes are not swift. I cannot always discriminate
  Between what takes time to develop and what can be rushed,
  Because my sense of time is dulled.
  I measure things in terms of happenings.
  O to understand the meaning of perspective
  That I may do all things with a profound sense of leisure – of
      time.
 —   Howard Thurman  (1951)
Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans, James Melvin Washington, Ph.D. Editor, 1994

Howard Thurman (November 18, 1899 – April 10, 1981) was an American theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. As a prominent religious figure, he played a leading role in many social justice movements of the twentieth century. He was the author of many books including Jesus and the Disinherited, 1949.

James Melvin Washington was an expert on Black American religious history, an educator, and a minister from Knoxville, Tennessee. He published Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power, in 1986.