Outside reading 3

October 23, 2015
             I found another prayer that I feel depicts the "emptying" of one's self to God:

"Lord, empty me of me so I can be filled with you. 

Lord, empty me of the selfishness inside:

every vain ambition, 

and the poison of my pride, 

and any foolishness my heart holds to. 

Lord empty me of ME and so I can be filled with YOU." 

I really like this prayer because it sounds like as the prayer progresses, so does the demand to be emptied. I admire this because the person praying or rather who wrote the prayer is begging to be emptied when by doing the very demand of asking through prayer I feel is the emptying itself.