Prayers/Charles de Foucauld

Charles de Foucauld’s Prayer of Abandonment

Father, I abandon myself into your hands, do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me and in all your creatures.
I wish no more than this, O Lord. Into your hands, I commend my soul;
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart;
For I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself:
To surrender myself into your hands without reserve and with boundless confidence. For you are my Father.

Inspired by the Lord's Prayer

See Michael Counsell, ed., 2000 Years of Prayer (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Pub, 1999), 410-412.