"My daily prayer Dear God, Please take care of everyone I love and everyone they love . . . Please help those who are hurting . . . Please continue to find your way . . . into the hearts and minds of those who choose to hurt others by force, by judgment, by words . . . Please help me follow the road . . . you have designed for me. I do not pray for a perfect life or material riches. I pray to be a good child, sibling and parent and . . . To be a good friend to the people you have given to my life . . . To hear your voice over the voices of those who judge me . . . To let you fill my heart with your love and your understanding . . . To replace validation by others with your grace for myself . . . To share your grace for others . . . To let others find their own favorite view while I search for mine Please never again let me put all of my hope and Happiness into someone else's hands . . . Sincerely, painfully and faithfully I pray these things. Your child, an imperfect version of the one you have designed me to be"

- Me (C.A.Jacobson)