Dreary days

Christ, shine through the darkness in my life!  I am following You, but this life is hard.  I have not the strength to go it alone.  Times of loneliness and sorrow, times of weariness and fear, lost in the maze that I have created for myself and drawn in by the pleasures of this life.

Lately I've been feeling a little dry, as though my prayers are just words coming from an insincere heart.  I want my prayer to be meaningful, but I seem unable to silence myself long enough to listen to the voice of the Lord.  For all the times I thought I heard Him, I wonder if I was only attributing to Him the words I wanted to hear.

O Lord, break me and build me.  Change me and remake me.  I never want to be apart from You.