I love Jesus for the shaft of light that he throws across the pathway of those who seek to answer the question: What shall I do with my life?

Give me the courage to live!
Really live, not merely exist.
Live dangerously
Scorning risk!
Live honestly
Daring the truth..
Particularly the truth of myself.
Live resiliently
Ever changing, ever growing, ever adapting
Enduring the pain of change
As though it were the travail of birth.
Give me the courage to live
Give me the strength to be free
And endure the burden of freedom
And the loneliness of those without chains.
Let me not be trapped by success
Nor by failure, nor pleasure, nor grief
Nor malice, nor praise, nor remorse!
Give me the courage to go on!
Facing all that waits on the trail
Going eagerly, joyously on
And praying my way as I go
Without anger or fear or regret
Taking what life gives
Spending myself to the full
Head high, spirit winged, life a god—
On…on…till the shadows draw close.
That even when darkness shuts down,
And I go out alone as I came
Naked and blind as I came
Even then, gracious God, hear my prayer.
Give me the courage to live!

(Howard Thurman, What shall I do with my life?)