Wednesday is for Words (& sometimes pictures): Dorthea Lange and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dorthea Lange
Rural rehabilitation settlement. Tulare County, CA
November 1938

I Cannot Do This Alone

O God, early in the morning I cry to you.

Help me to pray

And to concentrate my thoughts on you;

I cannot do this alone.

In me there is darkness,

But with you there is light;

I am lonely, but you do not leave me;

I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;

I am restless, but with you there is peace.

In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;

I do not understand your ways,

But you know the way for me...

Restore me to liberty,

And enable me to live now

That I may answer before you and before men.

Lord, whatever this day may bring,

Your name be praised.

Amen.

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)