First Goal

Thank you, Father, for instilling in us the most precious goals from before our creation and making us sub-consciously and consciously aware of them—what they are and the priorities they must be in.

Thank you for making us know that the first goal must be to be One with You.

Thank you for achieving this goal for us by the loving grace that created us, the loving grace that sustains and protects us, and the loving grace that died for us. Thank you for giving it to us as your most precious gift; giving us the grace and the willingness to be consciously aware of and grateful for it, so that we have your faith, trust, and courage to USE Your gift every moment of every day. Thank you for helping us to SHOW you that we are aware of this precious gift and that we are using it by giving up our life and walking before you in holiness and righteousness all our days, by giving up our self will, by reading your Word, by praying, by being a real lovingly giving, joyfully peaceful, humorously humble, forgiving, kind, patient, grateful, gentle, lovingly obediently faithful Christ-centered child of yours God.

Second Goal

Thank you, Father, for the second goal of being the best Mother, Musician, Singer-actor, Teacher-writer that I can possibly be.

Thank you for giving me the gifts and the people and the experiences in my life to help me accomplish this second goal.

Thank you for helping me to take care of the quality of this second goal by making absolutely sure I know what the first goal is, know that you have achieved it for me, given it to me as your most precious gift, given me the grace and willingness to be consciously aware of it and your faith, trust, and courage to use it every moment of every day.

Thank you for making me take care of the practical part of this second goal by practicing as diligently as possible everyday to sparkle and polish your precious gift—your voice and by your thoughts, diet, exercise, and sleep in quality and quantity to sparkle and polish your precious body—your instrument.

O Father, with you I always sing with a perfectly dropped, relaxed jaw, perfectly raised palate—like St. Paul’s Cathedral dome—for pure celestial, cathedral-like quality of tone. With you I always sing with a perfectly controlled—perfectly sealed like paint on a surface—magnetizing production. With you I sing with perfectly focused, lustrously loving, brilliant tone quality. With you I always speak and sing with proper pronunciation, enunciation, articulation, diction, and timing in every language so that every syllable is understood, AND, the proper pronunciation, enunciation, articulation, diction, and timing enhances and embellishes your precious gift—your voice—the same way that 24 karat gold filigree setting enhances and embellishes your precious gems.

With you I am aware of the fact that your voice is a narrow-piped wind instrument for pure, clear, focused, vertical wind instrument sound. Thank you Jesus.

With you, I am aware of and have developed your taut, alive trampoline diaphragm support system on which I sing every single note—perfectly supported, perfectly prepared, and perfectly focused and balanced in quality and quantity with every other note and on which I sing forever and never, never tire. Thank you Jesus.

With you, I’m aware of and have developed your whole body—your instrument—feet, legs, hips, back, buttocks, head, eyes, ears, nose, lips, mouth, gums, teeth, tongue, throat, chest, diaphragm, and the "elevator of air" that goes up and down with exactly the right amount of air in quality and quantity. Thank you Jesus.

With you, I always sing with proper technique and remember everything that is for me to remember. Thank you, Jesus.

LIVING OUT THE SECOND GOAL

Thank you for letting us see what your love looks like and hear what your love sounds like in us now. Thank you for the privilege, pleasure, opportunity, honor, and, most of all, the RESPONSIBILITY of showing your whole world what your love looks like and what your love sounds like. Giving your whole world a giant "bear-hug." Loving your whole world with you and for you; with your voice—your gift—and your body—your instrument.

Thank you for our healed inside self that makes us be on your wave length—your timing. Your timing is so preciously perfect. Therefore, we are prepared at every moment of everyday for ALL of your tasks that you have prepared for us to do and prepared us to do by all the wonderful people and experiences you’ve sent into our lives—both joyful and painful. We thank you with all our heart and soul and mind and strength for both the joyful and painful people and experiences you’ve sent into our lives but especially for the painful ones because you’ve released us and the experiences into loving, joyful, cheerful, humorous energy and we are able to laugh with you directly in your joy and cry with you directly in your pain. We are also able to laugh and cry with you indirectly in the joy and pain of all of us and be a whole and healed lover of souls.

(I’m also prepared by the proper practicing as diligently as possible everyday to sparkle and polish your precious gift—your voice—and by your thoughts, diet, exercise, and sleep in quality and quantity to sparkle and polish your precious body—your instrument.)

THIRD GOAL

Thank you for the third goal of having a perfect body inside and outside.

Thank you for helping us to take care of the spiritual body by the first goal, the

emotional-mental body by the second goal and by your thoughts, diet, exercise, and sleep in quality and quantity to sparkle and polish your physical body—your Holy Temple.

O Father, I’ve made a wonderful laughing place for you; full of warm fuzzies and

pools of serenity and joy so you can just enjoy being at home in your own home and have a laughing good time.

A. Thank you for making me your chauffeur of your spiritual body—keeping your "Rolls Royce" in sparkling condition ready to go instantly anywhere and everywhere you’d have me go with you and for you.

B. Thank you for making me your Princess/Queen (Prince/King) of your emotional-mental body. Always thinking, talking, and acting with the lovingly gracious, joyfully elegant decorum of the lovingly gracious, joyfully elegant Princess/Queen. Never swearing or thinking or saying bad words. Always thinking talking and acting with the lovingly gracious, joyfully elegant decorum of a lovingly gracious, joyfully elegant Princess/Queen.

C. Thank you for making me a priest of your physical body, your Holy Temple; sparkling and polishing my body, your temple, to such a lustrous shine you can see yourself in me. All of us can see you in me. And, just as importantly, we all can see our Real Child of God selves in me. Thank you Jesus.