Dear God,
Please untie the knots
that are in my mind,
my heart and my life.
Remove the ‘have nots’,
the ‘can nots’ and the ‘do nots’
that I have in my mind.
Erase the ‘will nots’,
‘may nots’, and
‘might nots’ that find
a home in my heart.
Release me from the ‘could nots’,
‘would nots’ and ‘should nots’
that obstruct my life.
And most of all, dear God,
I ask that you remove from my mind
my heart and my life all of the ‘am nots’
that I have allowed to hold me back,
especially the thought
that I ‘am not good enough’.
Amen.