No Matter How

This hymn, "One thing I of the Lord desire", is my only prayer now.

One thing I of the Lord desire,
For all my path hath miry been,
Be it by water or by fire,
O make me clean, O make me clean.

So wash me Thou, without, within,
Or purge with fire, if that must be,
No matter how, if only sin
Die out in me, die out in me.

If clearer vision Thou impart,
Grateful and glad my soul shall be;
But yet to have a purer heart
Is more to me, is more to me.

Yea, only as this heart is clean
May larger vision yet be mine,
For mirrored in Thy life are seen
The things divine, the things divine.

I watch to shun the miry way,
And stanch the springs of guilty thought,
But, watch and struggle as I may,
Pure I am not, pure I am not.

Yes.. my only hope is in you. I can't hope in myself , following laws and methods to make myself pure. For I will only fall again. All I can do is trust in Your plan for my life, and trust that the joys and the sorrows, the challenges and the blessings, will mold me into the woman you want me to be.