"Thou Hast Supplied My Every Need"

"O God, to Thee I come today,
And with true repentance kneeling.
The while I bend my knee to pray,
The tears from mine eyes are stealing.
But for they grace lost would I be,
Or ship-wrecked on life's hidden shoals,
Or left to drift upon the sea
Where dwelleth all earth's derelict souls.
But Thou didst free me from all alarms
And shield me from the tempter's power;
Thou broke the shackles from my arms
And thou didst cheer my darkest hour.
Thou has supplied my every need,
And made me free, and free indeed."

A prayer by Theodore Henry Shackelford (1916-1918) as qouted in Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers of African Americans by James Melvin Washington, Ph.D.