Brennan Manning, in his book, “The Wisdom of Tenderness”, shares this simple way of praying as a means of finding intimacy with Our Father God. He first shared it with a nun who was filled with hatred because of horrible childhood memories. He asked her to sit in a chair, close her eyes, upturn her palms, and pray this one phrase over and over: ‘Abba, I belong to you!’ Brennan continued, “At the outset, you’ll say it with your lips alone, because you’re mine becomes conscious of the meaning, will begin to push your head down into your heart and a figurative sense, so that ‘abba, I belong to you’ becomes what the French call ‘un cri de coeur’, a heartfelt cry from the depths of your being, establishing who you are, while you’re here, and where you’re going. It’s a prayer you can pray what working in the garden, listening to music, driving a car, etc.….When you pray it dozens and dozens of times each day, and It becomes syncopated with the rhythm of your heartbeat, you can, as Jesus says in Luke 18, pray all day long and never lose heart.” After 2 weeks, that nun experienced complete forgivenesses and an inner peace she had never known before. She then signed her note from: Daddy’s little girl.