Four lines that hand back everything: liberty, memory, understanding, will.
The prayer of total offering that closes the Spiritual Exercises.
When: At the end of a retreat, at the end of a hard decision, or any day you are gripping something too tightly.
Why: It gives back the four things a person most defends: freedom, memory, mind, and will. What it asks in return is the only thing that is enough.
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. Thou hast given all to me. To thee, O Lord, I return it. All is thine, dispose of it wholly according to thy will. Give me thy love and thy grace, for this is sufficient for me. Amen.