New Year's verse

Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart, I will glorify your name forever.
Psalm 86:11-12
These are the verses that God has chosen for me for 2008. I would like to elaborate on these verses and how I think God may use them in my life this year but it would be futile because I don't know how God is going to work. I do look forward to sharing with you in the weeks and months to come what God is doing in my life.
With that said, I'd like to share with you what I learned this morning in my quiet time. A few weeks ago, I read something on a "friend's" (we've never met but I feel like we're friends) blog. Her 4yr. old daughter said this prayer,
"Good morning God. This is your day. I am your child. Show me your way."
That simple prayer really spoke to me and I wrote it in the front of my prayer journal. I look at it almost everyday and this morning, as I was praying and asking God to show me His way for today, a quiet whisper told me to read Psalm 143. So turned in my Bible and began to read. As I began to read verse 8, I was reminded that God's word is alive and will speak into our very lives~
Let the morning bring to me word of your unfailing love
Good morning, God. This is your day
for I have put my trust in you,
I am your child
Show me the way I should go,
Show me your way.
for to you, I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8

God used His word to show me that the prayer of a 4 year old child is exactly how He wants me to approach every single day. Every day, I have to surrender to God's will and not my own. It's not so much about living a Christian life, it's about living as a Christian today.