Prayer of Powerlessness
 For the Twelve Steps.  Do not destroy.  

1    Almighty and Most Powerful God,
      Why am I cursed with this addiction?
2    Your children starve in foreign lands
      while my compulsion drives me
      to want more and more. 

3     All the day I long for my comfort.*
4     My thoughts are like a mountain stream 
       running wildly here and there,
      quick and churning.  What shall I do?

5    My cravings pull me under like a leaf in a whirlpool.
6    All my days are dismal and dark. 
7     I cry for release from this torment.
8     I am weak. I have no resolve.
9     Like soft clay at the river's edge, 
       my resistance crumbles and I am engulfed again.

                                              Selah
10   Lord, you are Mighty indeed. 
11   In Your Presence I am like a leaf, 
       trembling on the winter branch.
12   I am a weak and trembling thing.
13   Feeble attempts to control my life
       fail me time after time.

14   Remove my compulsion, O Lord.
25   Calm my cravings like a quiet pond.
16   Like a leaf floating on the forest pool,
       let my thoughts drift to you.

17   You are my Rock and my Refuge, O Lord.
18   Your Strength is made perfect in my weakness.
19   Remove this curse, Almighty God,
       and I will sing your praises throughout the land.
20   I will sing and give thanks in the temple.
21   And I will tell of your Might in countless gatherings. 

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      51:3  my comfort - any compulsion or addiction such as 
      alcohol, drugs, food, money or material possessions.
      Selah - annotation  probably referencing a  pause.


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